Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarchy to Republic. Edited and Translated from the Portuguese by Rod W. Horton.
by Freyre, Gilberto
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition, stated. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, decoration blind-stamped to upper cover, uncut, l pp, 422 pp, xxxiv pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This volume continues the great study of Brazilian civilization by Gilberto Freyre, Latin America’s most distinguished social historian, which began with The MAsters and the Slaves and was followed by The Mansions and the Shanties. Whereas in the earlier books Freyre described the rural patriarchy of Brazil duirng its flourishing years as a colony, the slow breakdown of that society, andthe rise of an urban culture, in Order and Progress he chonicles his country’s transition from monarchy to Republic - a transition characterized by the introduction of a new form of government but not a new social order. From the first decisive steps toward the abolition of slavery in the early 1870s to the end of the First World War, every thread of Brazil’s cultural fabric is examined: from industrialization, education, literature, art and architecture, economics, and politics, to relgion, sorcery, folk mores, and the sights and sounds of the city streets. Freyre describes the evolving paraxdox of racial ease and social rigidity. He charts the effects of European immigration, the economic hegemony of Sao Pualo, and the burst of industrial development after 1885. Yet he makes it clear that in spite of growth and relative prosperity, great accomplishments in internal improvements, and increasing influence from the United States, the Republic failed to alter traditional social relations, failed especially to improve the lot of freed slaves and industrial and agricultural workers, and never, in fact, succeeded in shedding the vestiges of its monarchical past...
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- Title
- Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarchy to Republic. Edited and Translated from the Portuguese by Rod W. Horton.
- Author
- Freyre, Gilberto
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American Edition, stated.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- South American History, Latin America, Brazil, South America, Anthropology, Sociology.
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