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Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil
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by Brian P. Owensby. 338 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Brian P. Owensby

Publisher:

   Stanford University

Place of Publication:

  Stanford, CA  

Publication Year:

  1999
Subjects:   Middle Class--Brazil--History, Social Change--Brazil
Table of contents
Contents
A Note on Orthography xiii
1. Directions 1
2. Into the Middle of a Competitive Social Order 14
3. Shifting Hierarchies 47
4. Struggling and Aspiring 72
5. Keeping Up Appearances 100
6. Approaching the People 130
7. Collaboration and Indifference 159
8. Marginalized in the Middle of Electoral Populism 185
9. Apolitical Politics 203
10. Reflections 236
Abbreviations 253
Notes 255
References 301
Index 323
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Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil
Book by Brian P. Owensby; Stanford University, 1999
Subjects: Middle Class--Brazil--History, Social Change--Brazil
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Social Change and Labor Unrest in Brazil since 1945
Book by Salvador A. M. Sandoval; Westview Press, 1993
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Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Saao Paulo, Brazil (1600-1900)
Book by Muriel Nazzari; Stanford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Dowry--Brazil--Saao Paulo--History, Family--Brazil--Saao Paulo--History, Saao Paulo (Brazil)--Social Conditions, Women--Brazil--Saao Paulo--Social Conditions
...of how family and class were reproduced...lineage because in Brazil, as in Portugal...white population in Brazil. Father Nobrega had...thought that the better class of Portuguese men...in Portugal and Brazil, in which the dowry...
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Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity
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For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964
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Brazil Creates Race Quotas to Aid Blacks
Newspaper article by Andrew Downie; The Washington Times, August 28, 2001
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
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