Intimate ironies : modernity and the making of middle-class lives in Brazil /

"Superb analysis of middle-class mentalities in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1920-50. Describes emergence of middle class, then argues that its members rejected political parties and leaders, but embraced the state's social service mission and social service jobs. Using a wide range of do...

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Autor principal: Owensby, Brian Philip, 1959-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Cambridge : Stanford University Press ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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245 1 0 |a Intimate ironies :  |b modernity and the making of middle-class lives in Brazil /  |c Brian P. Owensby. 
260 |a Stanford, Calif. :  |b Stanford University Press ;  |a Cambridge :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2001. 
300 |a [xiii], 332 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: 1999. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-322) and index. 
505 0 |a Directions -- Into the middle of a competitive social order -- Shifting hierarchies -- Struggling and aspiring -- Keeping up appearances -- Approaching the people -- Collaboration and indifference -- Marginalized in the middle of electoral populism -- Apolitical politics -- Reflections. 
520 1 |a "Superb analysis of middle-class mentalities in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1920-50. Describes emergence of middle class, then argues that its members rejected political parties and leaders, but embraced the state's social service mission and social service jobs. Using a wide range of documents, sensitively explores reasons for political ambivalence and cult of domestic life"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.  |u http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ 
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