Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil - Softcover

Hendrik Kraay (editor); Teresa Cribelli (editor) & Celso Thomas Castilho (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826365000 ISBN 13: 9780826365002

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2023

Synopsis

Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to come.

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About the Author

Hendrik Kraay is a professor of history at the University of Calgary and the author of Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889.

Teresa Cribelli is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.

Celso Thomas Castilho is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and the author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826365000
• ISBN 13: 9780826365002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320