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- catalog abstract "Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants' working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. '' --Journal of Latin American Studies 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 could be a place of protection--as well as oppression--while the street could be dangerous--but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. Houseand Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.".
- catalog contributor b3793448.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.".
- catalog description "List of tables -- List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Note on Brazilian currency -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Setting and Origins -- Introduction -- 1. The social landscape of house and street -- Part II. Servants' World -- 2. The work -- 3. Private lives in public places -- Part III. Masters' World -- 4. Protection and obedience -- 5. Contagion and control -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Tables -- Glossary of Portuguese words -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants' working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. '' --Journal of Latin American Studies 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 could be a place of protection--as well as oppression--while the street could be dangerous--but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. Houseand Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.".
- catalog extent "xii, 212 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0292727577 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brazil Rio de Janeiro".
- catalog subject "331.4/8164046/098153 20".
- catalog subject "HD8039.D52 B64 1992".
- catalog subject "Household employees Brazil Rio de Janeiro History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Master and servant Brazil Rio de Janeiro History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Poor women Brazil Rio de Janeiro History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women household employees Brazil Rio de Janeiro History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of tables -- List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Note on Brazilian currency -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Setting and Origins -- Introduction -- 1. The social landscape of house and street -- Part II. Servants' World -- 2. The work -- 3. Private lives in public places -- Part III. Masters' World -- 4. Protection and obedience -- 5. Contagion and control -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Tables -- Glossary of Portuguese words -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "House and street : the domestic world of servants and masters in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Sandra Lauderdale Graham.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".