House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
(Book #68 in the Cambridge Latin American Studies Series)
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Book Overview
During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0292727577
ISBN13:9780292727571
Release Date:November 1992
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Excellent book on early history of Rio de Janeiro.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book provides an excellent view on the life on all classes of people living in Brazil throughout the eighteenth century. Well doucumented, easy to read, and fascinating.
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