The Social and Cultural Geography of Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

S4 is collaborating in a new historical project with the Stanford Humanities Center and University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The project seeks to develop detailed reconstructions of urban spaces and histories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the nineteenth century. It will provide the most detailed and complete geohistorical archive ever assembled for a city in South America.

At Brown University, the project builds on the original research of Dr. James Green. Associate Professor of Brazilian History and Culture and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. It is part of his book manuscript in progress entitled "The Crossroads of Sin and the Collision of Cultures: Pleasure and Popular Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, 1860-1920."

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