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  • Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Series series Ten Moments That Shaped
    What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

    by Paul Mccarthy, Lindsey Burns, Bryan McCann, Sahen Gupta ...
    Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and exercise psychology with the art of judgement and decision-making to deliver services to athletes. With a multitude of skills to master and competencies to gain, trainees and supervisors need ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    by Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

    A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    by B.J. Barickman ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    2023 Honorable Mention, Warren Dean Prize in Brazilian HistoryIn From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Throes of Democracy

    Brazil since 1989

    by Doctor Bryan McCann ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history Since then, Brazilians have sought to live up to the ideals of this experiment while negotiating dramatic economic and cultural transformations.In The Throes of Democracy Bryan McCann gives a panoramic view of this process, exploring the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Hard Times in the Marvelous City

    From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cities From Scratch

    Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero ...
    This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...
    Series series Ten Moments That Shaped

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    What do nineteenth–century fiction, early twentieth–century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

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  • The Buenos Aires Reader

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    Edited by Diego Armus, Lisa Ubelaker Andrade ...
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    The Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present. Refuting the tired cliché that Buenos Aires is the “Paris of South America,” this book gives a nuanced view of a city that has long been attentive to international trends yet never ceases to ... Read more

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  • Andean Entrepreneurs

    Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena

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  • The Rio de Janeiro Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, Paulo Knauss de Mendonça ...
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