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

Author: Brian Philip Owensby
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Brian Philip Owensby
ISBN: 0804733600 9780804733601
OCLC Number: 39951783
Description: [xiii], 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Brian P. Owensby.
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"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.

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