scholarly journals Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2018. 480pp. 49 figures. 11 maps. 99 tables. $75.00 hbk.

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Andreza Aruska De Souza Santos
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Vidal Luna ◽  
Herbert S. Klein

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO VIDAL LUNA ◽  
HERBERT S. KLEIN

Author(s):  
Francisco Vidal Luna ◽  
Herbert S. Klein

This volume is the continuation of an earlier study of colonial and imperial São Paulo and covers the period 1850-1950. These volumes are the first full scale survey of the economy and society of the state of São Paulo in this two century period in any language. Today São Paulo is the most populated state of Brazil and also the richest and most industrialized one. It is also the world leader in the production of sugar cane and orange juice and houses one of the world’s major airplane manufacturers. Its GDP today is almost double the size of Portugal or Finland and close to the size of the entire economy of Colombia or Venezuela and its capital city is one of the top five metropolitan centers in the world. This volume shows how the region of São Paulo went from being one of the more marginal and backward areas of the nation to its leading agricultural, industrial and financial center. Special emphasis is given to the creation of a modern state government and finances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the evolution of tis coffee economy and its internal market as well as its leading role it played in the integration of over two million European and Asian immigrants into Brazilian society.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 396-411
Author(s):  
Petrônio José Domingues

This article investigates the trajectory of the Grêmio Dramático, Recreativo e Literário Elite da Liberdade (the Liberdade Elite Guild of Drama, Recreation, and Literature), a black club active in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1919 to 1927. The aim is to reconstruct aspects of the club’s history in light of its educational discourse on civility, which was used as a strategy to promote modern virtues in the black milieu. By appropriating the precepts of civility, Elite da Liberdade helped construct a positive black identity, enabled the creation of bonds of solidarity among its members, and made itself a place of resistance and struggle for social inclusion, recognition, and citizens’ rights.


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