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Rio de Janeiro

Gay, Robert. Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas. Temple University Press, 1993. A study of Rio's slums and the politics of division between rich and poor.

Guillermoprieto, Alma. Samba. Knopf, 1990. Account of Rio's Carnival parades that illuminates the history and culture of black Brazilians and Rio de Janeiro.

Meade, Teresa A. Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. A study of urban politics at a time when the city was undergoing massive social and infrastructural change.

Needell, Jeffrey D. A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge University Press, 1988. A study of the role of Rio de Janeiro and its elite in modern Brazilian cultural history.

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