Cities Of Hope: People, Protests, And Progress In Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930

by Ronn F Pineo, James A Baer

Overview

This book brings together new research, analysis, and comparison on the dawn of modern urbanization in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Latin America. It offers a sense of what life was like for the urban residents examining the conditions they confronted and exploring their experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813324449
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	01/05/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ronn Pineo is associate professor of history at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. James A. Baer is professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. Ronn Pineo is associate professor of history at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. James A. Baer is professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — Political Impulses: Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia — Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, and the Reorganization of Public Space in Montevideo, Uruguay — Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics — Viva La Revolución Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in Veracruz, Mexico — Buenos Aires: Housing Reform and the Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina — Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing in Lima, Peru — Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile — The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development — Urbanization, the Working Class, and Reform

Editorial Reviews

Addressing questions of the response of the Latin American working class to the process of urbanization, ten studies discuss the impact of working class strategies towards social reform. The articles include treatments of: popular political participation in Bogot<'a>, Columbia; housing reform in Buenos Aires, Argentina; epidemics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; tenant protest in Veracruz, Mexico; and trolleys, labor conflict and the reorganization of public space in Montevideo, Uruguay. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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