programa de historia de la ciudad y política públicas en américa latina

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POLITICS AND THE CITY IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (G57.2803)New York University

Department of History

Professor: Alejandro Velasco Fall 2010: Term

Office: 1 Washington Pl, Rm. 506 KJCC 527: LocationHours: Tue 2:00-5:00PM, Wed. 9:00AM-2:00PM Thu 9:30AM-12:15PM: TimeContact:[email protected],212-992-9834

Course Description

Gazing on such wonderful sights, we did not know what to say, or whether what appeared

before us was real, for on the land there were great cities, and in the lake ever so many more, and

in front of us stood the great city of Mexico (Bernal Diaz, 1518). When Europeans set foot onthe New World they found a continent deeply shaped by an urban experience. Bustling

metropolises in Tenochtitln, Yucatn, and Cusco congregated people and power at the head of

sprawling and complex political systems. Yet urban life in Latin America, and the politicaldynamics that characterize it, have been seen as recent phenomena, the consequence of post-war

industrialization and lingering dreams of Eurocentric modernity. But faced with a now

thoroughly urban continent peppered with megacitiesfrom Mexico to Lima to Buenos Aires

historians have more and more turned their attention to the continents deep urban history insearch of clues to reshape our understandings of Latin Americas past, and of its future.

This course has two aims. On one hand it introduces students to key readings, concepts, anddebates on the interplay of politics and urban life, tracing the development of the literature on

urban political theory from its origins in turn of the 19th

century psychoanalyses of urban society

and politics, to the most recent interventions on the rise of global cities and their impact on the

nation-state. On the other hand it offers a sweeping account of Latin American history as seenthrough several of its major urban centers, from pre-Columbian Tenochtitln to contemporary La

Paz. We assess how developments in urban theory have shaped understanding of politics in the

region, for instance considering changes and continuities in state policy toward cities and theircitizens, from Inca Cusco to republican Rio de Janeiro to modern Braslia. We consider how the

emergence of electoral politics interfaced with urbanization to help give rise to populism. We

examine the cultural turn as seen through the prism of urban life, considering the interplay ofrace and gender in shaping private and public life in the city. And we explore the meta-politics of

Latin American cities, as sites where imagined order and modernity chafe against the reality of

inequality and informality to make of the urban landscape a fitting window into the larger

tensions of a continents history.

Assignments and Expectations

All students will be responsible for and graded on the basis of:

Active participation in class discussion. This of course includes attending all scheduledclasses. Should you need to miss because of an exceptional circumstance, and if possible,

please notify instructor before class meets.
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Weekly reactions to the readings. These reactions should be roughly 300 words inlength, and should be posted as text on the Discussion Board section of the course

website sometime before class (ideally by midnight so that the rest of the class may have

a chance to read them). Reactions need not be polished, but they should attempt to drawout relevant connections between the various readings for each week (and among

different weeks) or register insightful questions or thoughts on the materials as they relateto work and literatures in your area.

One classroom presentation. Students will select one week of readings, and will beresponsible for designing discussion questions and helping to lead discussion based on

their reading of the material.

One formal 4-5 page book review. For the week students select to present, they willalso submit a formal, polished book review of the major text assigned that week. You

should submit these reviews no more than one week following your presentation in order

to take advantage of the ideas generated during discussion. By formal, polished review

you should understand a review that one would find in an academic journal, a review thatdraws out a texts key argumentsand conceptual framing, assesses the quality of sources

employed and their use, considers weaknesses or flaws, and provides context in order tolocate the book within a larger literature (for instance, your own research area). You

should consider these pieces an opportunity to develop the skill of review writing, which

is a key part of the academic profession.

Final Paper. Students will coordinate with the instructor a final written assignment mostpertinent to the student (given their location in the program). For instance, first year

students should consider writing a 15-18 page historiographical essay, consisting of a

carefully documented and argued intervention on the development and state of the field

of urban political historyperceived lacunae, developing trends, potential paths aheadbased on the readings covered in the course. Second year students may want to submit an

extended 15-18 page review essay of several key books in the course, or in one of theirmajor qualifying exam fields, as they relate to the readings/debates addressed this

semester. More advanced students may considering submitting dissertation quality

chapters that incorporate research they have conducted in light of the readings/themesaddressed in this course. We will meet during the first couple of weeks of class to discuss

the specific shape and expectations of this final assignment.

Readings

You are responsible for acquiring the following books, which we will read in full and in theorder they appear below. Please plan accordingly. Some helpful used book e-stores include:

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1. Angel Rama, The Lettered City. Durham: Duke U Press, 1996.2. James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Braslia. Chicago: U of

Chicago Press, 1989.
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3. Herbert Braun, The Assassination of Gaitn: Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia .Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

4. Diane Davis, Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: TempleU Press, 1994.

5. Gerd Schnwalder,Linking Civil Society and the State: Urban Popular Politics, the Left, andLocal Government in Peru, 1980-1992. University Park: Penn State U Press, 2004.6. Joo Jos Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Baltimore:Johns Hopkins U Press, 1995.

7. Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics inRevolutionary Mexico City. University Park: Penn State Press, 2001.

8. Marie Francois,A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, andGovernance in Mexico City, 1750-1920. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 2006.

9. Sian Lazar,El Alto, Reb City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia. Durham: Duke UPress, 2008.

10.Brodwyn Fischer,A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Riode Janeiro. Palo Alto: Stanford U Press, 2008. (NOTE: Hardcover only; my apologies. If

you do not anticipate being able to acquire a copy, alert the instructor)11.Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Tale of Two Cities: New York and Santo Domingo after 1950.Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2007. (NOTE: Paperback edition available in October!)

We will read significant portions of the books below. For your benefit they will be available onCourse Reserves, but you may also wish to acquire copies of your own.

1. Max Weber, The City. New York: Free Press, 1968.2. Inga Clendinnen, The Aztecs: An Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2000.3. Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 1996.4. Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays. Minneapolis: U of Minn Press, 2009.5. Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.6. James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition

Have Failed. New Have: Yale U Press, 1999.

Additional readings, including book chapters and journal articles, will be available on E-

Reserves and Blackboard, as indicated in the weekly schedule.

Weekly Schedule

1. Part One: Approaches to Politics and the Citya. 9 September: Introduction

i. 1903Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Lifein Gary Bridge andSophie Watson, eds. The City Reader. Malden: Blackwell, 2002.

ii. 1938Louis Wirth, Urbanism as a Way of Life in Richard Legates, ed. TheCity Reader. London: Routledge, 2003. (Blackboard)

iii. 1961Jane Jacobs, The Uses of City Neighborhoods, The Death and Lifeof Great American Cities. New York: Modern Library, 1993. (Blackboard)
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iv. 1996Charles Tilly, What Good Is Urban History?Journal of UrbanHistory22 (1996): 702-19 (E-reserves)

v. Recommended1. 1972Richard Morse, A Prolegomenon to Latin American Urban

History,Hispanic American Historical Review 52, no. 3 (Aug 1972):359-94. (E-reserves)2. 1998Diego Armus and John Lear, The trajectory of Latin

American urban history,Journal of Urban History24 (1998): 291-

3013. 2001Michael Derham, "How Green Was My Valley? Urban

History in Latin America,"Journal of Urban History28, no. 2 (2001):

278-91.

b. 16 September: Urban Primacyi.

1922Max Weber, The City. New York: Free Press, 1968.(Parts 1, 4, 5)ii. 1998Brian Bauer, The Social Organization of Cusco and its CequeSystem, The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System.

Austin: U of Texas Press, 1998. (Blackboard)

iii. 2000Inga Clendinnen, Part One: The City, The Aztecs: An Interpretation.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

iv. Recommended1. 1958Richard Morse,From Community to Metropolis: A Biography

of So Paulo. Gainesville: U of Florida Press, 1958.

2. 1967Glenn Beyer, The Urban Explosion in L America: A Continentin the Process of Modernization. Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1967.

3. 1974James Scobie,Buenos Aires: Plaza to Suburb, 1870-1910.Oxford: Oxford U Press, 1992.

4. 1978David Myers, Caracas: The Politics of Intensifying Primacy,in Wayne Cornelius and Robert Kemper,Latin American Urban

Research. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1978.

2. Part Two: Urban Metapoliticsa. 23 September: The City as Chaos

i. 1968Henri Lefebvre, Right to the City, in Eleanor Kofman and ElizabethLebas, eds. Writings on Cities. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 1996.

ii. 1970s-80sHenri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays. NeilBrenner and Stuart Elden, eds. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2009.(Chapters 5, 7-11, 14-15)

iii. 1994 - Gareth Jones, The Latin American city as contested space: Amanifesto,Bulletin of Latin American Research13 (1994): 1-12. (E-reserves)
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iv. Recommended:1. 2000Anton Rosenthal, Spectacle, Fear, and Protest: A Guide to the

History of Urban Public Space in Latin America, Social Science

History24, no. 1 (2000): 33-73. (E-reserves)

2. 2005Jay Kinsbruner, The Colonial Spanish-American City: UrbanLife in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2005.3. 2008David Harvey, The Right to the City,New Left Review53(Sept-Oct 2008): 23-40.

b. 30 September: The City as Orderi. 1938Lewis Mumford, Social Basis of the New Urban Order, The Culture

of Cities. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.

ii. 1984Angel Rama, The Lettered City. Durham: Duke U Press, 1996.iii. 2003Setha Low, The cultural meaning of the plaza: The history of the

Spanish-American gridplan-plaza urban designin Robert Rotenberg and

Gary McDonogh, eds. The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space. Westport:Bergin and Garvey, 2003. (Blackboard)

iv. Recommended1. 2000Setha Low, On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and

Culture. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2000.

2. 2005David S. Parker Middle-Class Mobilization and the Languageof Orders in Urban Latin America: From Caste to Category in EarlyTwentieth-Century LimaJournal of Urban History 31 (Mar 2005):

367-81.

3. 2008Christina M. Jimnez, From the Lettered City to the SellersCity: Vendor Politics and Public Space in Urban Mxico, 1880-1926in Gyan Prakash, ed. The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries,

Politics, and Everyday Life. Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2008.

c. 7 October: The City as Aspirationi. 1929Le Corbusier, City of Tomorrowand its Planning in Gary Bridge

and Sophie Watson, eds. The City Reader. Malden: Blackwell, 2002.

(Blackboard)

ii. 1989James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique ofBraslia. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1989. (Chapters 1-6)

iii. 1998James Scott, Cities, People, and Language and Authoritarian HighModernism, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the

Human Condition Have Failed. New Have: Yale U Press, 1999.

iv. Recommended1. 1967Francis Violich and Juan Astica, Community Development and

the Urban Planning Process in Latin America. Los Angeles: U ofCalifornia, 1967.
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2. 1998James Scott,The High Modernist City: An Experiment and aCritique, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the

Human Condition Have Failed. New Have: Yale U Press, 1999.3. 1999Arturo Almandoz, Transfer of Urban Ideas: The Emergence

of Venezuelan Urbanism in the Proposals for 1930s Caracas,

International Planning Studies 4, no 1 (Feb 1999): 79-95.4. 2005Richard J. Williams, Modernist Civic Space and the Case ofBrasliaJournal of Urban History 32(Nov 2005): 120-137.

3. Part Three: Urbanization and Mass Politicsa. 14 October: Urban Populism

i. 1972Manuel Castells Urbanizationand The Urban Ideology in IdaSusser, ed. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Oxford: Wiley

Blackwell, 2002. (Blackboard)

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1985Herbert Braun, The Assassination of Gaitn: Public Life and UrbanViolence in Colombia. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

iii. Recommended1. 1975Jorge Hardoy, Urbanization in Latin America: Approaches and

Issues. Garden City: Anchor Press, 1975.

2. 1981Douglas Butterworth and John Chance,Latin AmericanUrbanization. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1981.

3. 1987Jeffrey Needell,A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture andSociety in Turn of the Century Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge: Cambridge

U Press, 1987.

4. 1995Christopher G. Boone Streetcars and Politics in Rio deJaneiro: Private Enterprise versus Municipal Government in the

Provision of Mass Transit 1903-1920Journal of Latin American

Studies27, no 2 (May 1995): 343-65.5. 2001Hilda Sbato, The Many and the Few: Political Participation

in Republican Buenos Aires. Palo Alto: Stanford U Press, 2001.

b. 21 October: Electoral Politics in the Cityi. 1994John Mollenkopf, How to Study Urban Politics,A Phoenix in the

Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics.Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1994. (Blackboard)

ii. 1994Diane Davis, Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century.Philadelphia: Temple U Press, 1994.

iii. Recommended1. 1971Donald Hodges, ed.Philosophy of the Urban Guerrilla: The

Revolutionary Writings of Abraham Guilln. New York: WilliamMorrow, 1973.


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2. 1976Alejandro Portes and John Walton, Urban Latin America: ThePolitical Condition from Above and Below. Austin: U of Texas Press,

1976.3. 1987J Logan and H Molotch, The City as a Growth Machine,

Urban Fortunes. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1987.

4.

1993Richard Walter,Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires,1910-1942. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2003.5. 2002Leonardo Avritzer,Democracy and the Public Space in Latin

America. Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2002.

c. 28 October: Urban Politics in the Neoliberal Erai. 1978Manuel Castells, Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions

in Advanced Capitalism, City, Class, and Power. London: Macmillan, 1978.(Blackboard)

ii. 2004Gerd Schnwalder,Linking Civil Society and the State: UrbanPopular Politics, the Left, and Local Government in Peru, 1980-1992.University Park: Penn State U Press, 2004.

iii. Recommended1. 2000Javier Auyero, The Hyper Shantytown: Neo-Liberal

Violence(s) in the Argentine Slum,Ethnography 1, no. 1 (July 2000):

93-116.

2. 2003Tim Campbell, The Quiet Revolution: Decentralization and theRise of Political Participation in Latin American Cities. Pittsburgh: U

of Pittsburg Press, 2003.

3. 2004Alan Gilbert, Love in the Time of Enhanced Capital Flows:Reflections on the Links between Liberalization and Informality, inNezar Alsayyad and Ananya Roy, eds. Urban Informality:

Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and

South Asia. Oxford: Lexington Books, 2004.4. 2005Gianpaolo Baiocchi,Militants and Citizens: The Politics of

Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre. Palo Alto: Stanford U

Press, 2005.5. 2008Kathleen Bruhn, Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil.

Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2008.

4. Part Four: Cultural Politics in the Citya. 4 November: Urban Racial and Ethnic Politics

i. 1995Michael Keith, Identity and the Spaces of Authenticity, SocialIdentities 1, no. 2 (Aug 1995): 297-315. (E-reserves)

ii. 1997Stuart Hall, Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities, inAnthony King, ed. Culture, Globalization, and the World-System:


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Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Minneapolis: U

of Minnesota Press, 1997. (Blackboard)

iii. 1995Joo Jos Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of1835 in Bahia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1995.

iv.

Recommended1. 1991George Reid Andrews,Blacks and Whites in So Paulo, Brazil,1888-1988. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

2. 1993Howard Winant, The Theoretical Status of the Concept ofRace in Les Back and J. Solomos, eds. Theories of Race and Racism.London: Routledge, 2000.

3. 1997Teresa Meade. Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in aBrazilian City, 18891930. University Park: Penn State Press, 1997.

b. 11 November: Gendered Space in the Cityi.

1992Jean Franco Going public: Reinhabiting the privatein Mary LouisePratt and Kathleen Newman, eds. Critical Passions: Selected Essays.

Durham: Duke U Press, 1999. (Blackboard)

ii. 2001Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, andGender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City. University Park: Penn StatePress, 2001.

iii. Recommended1. 1991Donna Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution,

Family, and Nation in Argentina. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1991.

2. 1994Lilia Rodriguez, Barrio Women: Between the Urban and theFeminist Movement,L American Perspectives21, no. 3 (Sum 1994)

3. 1996Matthew Guttmann, The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man inMexico City. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1996.

4. 1998Jane Jacobs, Staging Difference: Aestheticization and thePolitics of Difference in Contemporary Cities in Jane Jacobs and

Ruth Fincher, eds. Cities of Difference. New York: Guilford Press,

1998. (Blackboard)5. 2005Jane Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the

Urban Economy in Colonial Potos. Durham: Duke U Press, 2005.

5. Part Five: Informal Politics in the Citya. 18 November: The Marginality Debate

i. 1989Cristbal Kay, Marginality: Social Relations and CapitalAccumulation,Latin American Theories of Development and

Underdevelopment. London: Routledge, 1989. (Blackboard)

ii. 2004Janice Perlman, Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas ofRio de Janeiro, 1969-2002in Nezar Alsayyad and Ananya Roy, eds. Urban


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Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America,

and South Asia. Oxford: Lexington Books, 2004. (Blackboard)

iii. 2006Marie Francois,A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping,Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920. Lincoln: U of

Nebraska Press, 2006.

iv. Recommended1. 1960Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark: The Diary of

Carolina Maria de Jesus. New York: Penguin, 1963.

2. 1976Janice Perlman, The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty andPolitics in Rio de Janeiro. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1976.

3. 1983Manuel Castells, The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley: U of

California Press, 1983.4. 1993Thomas Holloway,Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and

Resistance in a 19th

Century City. Palo Alto: Stanford U Press, 1993.

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2006Mike Davis,Planet of Slums. London: Verso, 2006.

b. 2 December: From Marginality to Peripheryi. 1989James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of

Braslia. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1989. (Chapters 7-8)

ii. 1996Elizabeth Leeds, Cocaine and Parallel Polities in the Brazilian UrbanPeriphery: Constraints on local level democratization.Latin AmericanResearch Review31, no. 3 (1996)

iii. 2008Sian Lazar,El Alto, Reb City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia.Durham: Duke U Press, 2008.

iv. Recommended1. 1995Cathy Schneider, Shantytown Protest in Pinochets Chile.

Philadelphia: Temple U Press, 1995.2. 2004 - Partha Chaterjee, The Politics of the Governed,The Politics

of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World.

New York: Columbia U Press, 2004. (Blackboard)3. 2004Christina M. Jimnez Popular Organizing for Public Services:

Residents Modernize Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1920Journal of Urban

History, May (2004); vol. 30: pp. 495 - 518.

4. 2010Alejandro Velasco, A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote:Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-1983,

Hispanic American Historical Review90, no 4 (Nov 2010): 661-95.

c. 9 December: From Periphery to Informalityi. 2007James Holston, Citizenship in Disjunctive Democracies, in Joseph

Tulchin and Meg Ruthenburg, eds. Citizenship in Latin America. Boulder:Lynne Rienner, 2007. (Blackboard)


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ii. 2004Nezar Alsayyad, Urban Informality asa New Way of Life,inNezar Alsayyad and Ananya Roy, eds. Urban Informality: Transnational

Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Oxford:Lexington Books, 2004. (Blackboard)

iii. 2008Brodwyn Fischer,A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality inTwentieth Century Rio de Janeiro. Palo Alto: Stanford U Press, 2008. (Intro,Parts I, II, and IV)

iv. Recommended1. 2001Teresa Caldeira, City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and

Citizenship in So Paulo. Berkeley: U of California Press, 2001.

2. 2004Ton Salman Apocryphal Citizenship: Anthropologizing theCitizenship Debate in Latin AmericaJournal of Urban History 30

(Sep 2004): 853-873. (E-reserves)3. 2004Daniel Goldstein, The Spectacular City: Violence and

Performance in Urban Bolivia. Durham: Duke U Press, 2004.

4.

2007James Holston,Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions ofDemocracy and Modernity in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton U Press,

2007.

6. Part Six: Urban Geopoliticsa. TUESDAY 14 December: Urban Flows of People/Capital/Politics

i. 2006Saskia Sassen, National and Transnational Urban Systems and TheNew Urban Economy, Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks: Pine

Forge Press, 2006. (Blackboard)

ii. 2007Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Tale of Two Cities: New York and SantoDomingo after 1950. Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2007.

iii. Recommended1. 1999 - Samuel Baily.Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in

Buenos Aires and NYC, 18701914. Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1999.

2. 2003 - George Ydice, The Funkification of Rio, The Expediency ofCultures: Uses of Culture in the Global Era. Durham: Duke U Press,

2003.

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