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Description: Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century So Paulo, Brazil by C. Peixoto-Mehrtens This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. Notes Analyzing how the political, cultural, and technical networks within engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo Author Biography CRISTINA PEIXOTO-MEHRTENS is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, USA. Table of Contents Public and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions In the 1930s The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees In the 1930s The Symbolic Construction of Paulista Urban Identity Politics and Urban Change: The Pacaembu Scheme, 1933-1940 Review "Mehrtenss sources are richly varied and used withgreat insight and creativity. Her analysis is detailed, careful, andilluminating. She has written a book that will appeal to scholars of the middleclass, of public-private interactions, and of the complex process of thedevelopment modern urban space." (Anne Hanley, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 52(2), December, 2015)"In Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens - historian, architect, and former urban planner - has written a vital book. She details the complex interactions among policy makers, bureaucrats, politicians, and scholars who defined the economic, cultural, social, and political spaces of urban São Paulo, Brazil s twentieth-century economic power house. Deftly exploring the labyrinths of state and private development agencies and drawing on an eclectic array of sources, Peixoto-Mehrtens offers fresh insight into Brazil s economic and social modernization in the twentieth century. Her tale of the construction of the Pacaembu Stadium during the late 1930s is a model microhistory of tangled social and political agendas. At the same time, she offers a new chapter in the deepening account of the role Brazil s middle class played in articulating modernity to a nation that in the early twenty-first century has become a rising global power. Recognizing that there was no unified middle-class political initiative, she penetratingly shows how bureaucrats and policy makers, acting from local conditions, interpreted and transformed the transnational traffic in theories of development and urban planning." - Brian P. Owensby, Professor and Chair, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia"How did middle-class architects and city planners, municipal employees and foreign-owned companies, politicians and intellectuals all contribute to reshaping the urban spaces in São Paulo, South America s largest city, in the 1930s and 40s? Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role that middle sectors played in influencing urban life in a vital center of modernizing Brazil. Through the creative use of a wide array of archives, oral histories, and varied sources, this social and cultural history artfully analyzes the complex interlocking networks of business interests, aspiring professionals, and middle-class technicians that planned and implemented the transformation of the city into Brazil s largest metropolis." - James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture, Brown University Long Description Urban Space and National Identity in Twentieth Century Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of S Review Quote "Mehrtenss sources are richly varied and used withgreat insight and creativity. Her analysis is detailed, careful, andilluminating. She has written a book that will appeal to scholars of the middleclass, of public-private interactions, and of the complex process of thedevelopment modern urban space." (Anne Hanley, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 52(2), December, 2015) "In Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century So Paulo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens - historian, architect, and former urban planner - has written a vital book. She details the complex interactions among policy makers, bureaucrats, politicians, and scholars who defined the economic, cultural, social, and political spaces of urban So Paulo, Brazil s twentieth-century economic power house. Deftly exploring the labyrinths of state and private development agencies and drawing on an eclectic array of sources, Peixoto-Mehrtens offers fresh insight into Brazil s economic and social modernization in the twentieth century. Her tale of the construction of the Pacaembu Stadium during the late 1930s is a model microhistory of tangled social and political agendas. At the same time, she offers a new chapter in the deepening account of the role Brazil s middle class played in articulating modernity to a nation that in the early twenty-first century has become a rising global power. Recognizing that there was no unified middle-class political initiative, she penetratingly shows how bureaucrats and policy makers, acting from local conditions, interpreted and transformed the transnational traffic in theories of development and urban planning." - Brian P. Owensby, Professor and Chair, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia "How did middle-class architects and city planners, municipal employees and foreign-owned companies, politicians and intellectuals all contribute to reshaping the urban spaces in So Paulo, South America s largest city, in the 1930s and 40s? Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century So Paulo, Brazil offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role that middle sectors played in influencing urban life in a vital center of modernizing Brazil. Through the creative use of a wide array of archives, oral histories, and varied sources, this social and cultural history artfully analyzes the complex interlocking networks of business interests, aspiring professionals, and middle-class technicians that planned and implemented the transformation of the city into Brazil s largest metropolis." - James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture, Brown University Description for Bookstore Analyzing Details ISBN0230103022 Language English ISBN-10 0230103022 ISBN-13 9780230103023 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2010 Short Title URBAN SPACE & NATL IDENTITY IN Pages 273 Publication Date 2010-11-26 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Crafting Modernity Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2010-11-26 NZ Release Date 2010-11-26 UK Release Date 2010-11-26 Author C. Peixoto-Mehrtens Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Alternative 9781349287550 DEWEY 307.76098161 Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 273 p. 10 illus. Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97220661;

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