The Rio de Janeiro Reader

Daryle Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland and the author of Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945, also published by Duke University Press. Amy Chazkel is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life, also published by Duke University Press. Paulo Knauss is Professor of History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil) and the author of Rio de Janeiro da pacificação: Franceses e portugueses na disputa colonial. 

A Note on Translations, Spelling, and Monetary Units  xi

Place-Names and Way-Finding  xiii

Acknowledgments  xvii

Introduction: The Marvelous City  1

I. Colonial Rio  9

The Early Colonial Period, 1502–1720s

The Viceregal Period, 1763–1808

The Transfer of the Portuguese Court (1808–1820s)

II. Imperial Rio  73

The Independence Era, 1820s–1830s

A Neutral Municipality, 1834–1889

III. Republican Rio  139

The Federal District, 1889–1930

The Federal District, 1930–1960

IV. Recent Rio  235

The City and State of Guanabara, 1960–1975

After the Fusion, 1975–1980s

Contemporary Rio, 1990s–2015

Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing  367

Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources  375

Index  383