Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s.
Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s.
House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
224
House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
224Paperback(1st University of Texas Press ed)
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| ISBN-13: | 9780292727571 |
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| Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
| Publication date: | 11/01/1992 |
| Edition description: | 1st University of Texas Press ed |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |