Fortaleza belle époque

Description:

"Revised MA thesis based on official reports, newspapers, chronicles, and reformist tracts links urban beautification and sanitation reforms to elite project of 'disciplining' workers. Interesting as counterpoint to better-studied case of Rio de Janeiro in Needell (HLAS 50:2705) and Meade (HLAS 52:3066)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

subjects: History,  Social control,  Urban renewal

Places: Brazil,  Fortaleza,  Fortaleza (Brazil)

Times: 1860-1930