A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro - Brodwyn Fischer

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

Reducere. Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth c...

Rio is an international city and destination hot-spot for night-life, business, and culture. This book looks at the lifestyle and the foods that he...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Carlos SandroniIllustration(s): 50 music examplesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimens...

This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to ...

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Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the fave...

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A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Rio de Janeiro in BrazilThe photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery an...

In the 1950s, Rio expanded into a metropolis of nearly 2.5 million inhabitants. The word of the moment was new: Neoconcretism in art, Bossa Nova in...

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Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century - Mark Philip Bradley

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

Reducere. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and is one of the planet's richest places for bird diversity, especially when it comes to the numb...

After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth cont...

Carnaval and samba are just the start --kick back on the Copacabana, caipirinha in hand. Copacabana and Ipanema and Christ the Redeemer gazing down...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie PaikIllustration(s): 2 b-w charts, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dim...

A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China, using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the soci...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

DescriptionConcerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was...

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Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

The collection includes new translations of Tocqueville's works, including the first English translation of his Second Memoir, the original Memoir,...

DescriptionOver the past two decades, two opposing currents have been building. On the one hand a resurgence of jingoistic nationalism, racial into...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 34Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Felix M. LarkinR...

Reducere. To tackle pervasive poverty in Ethiopia, the root cause must be removed first. Only then can the country hope for progress. Dr. Assefa Muluneh, for...

Women and Inequality in the 21st Century examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nex...