| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : 1 map |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction / James A. Baer Ronn Pineo -- chapter 1 Political Impulses: Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia / David Sowell -- chapter 2 Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, and the Reorganization of Public Space in Montevideo, Uruguay / Anton Rosenthal -- chapter 3 Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics / John Lear -- chapter 4 Viva La Revolución Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in Veracruz, Mexico / Andrew Grant Wood -- chapter 5 Buenos Aires: Housing Reform and the Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina / James A. Baer -- chapter 6 Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing in Lima, Peru / David S. Parker -- chapter 7 Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile / Ronn Pineo -- chapter 8 The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Sam Adamo -- chapter 9 The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development / Sharon Phillipps Collazos -- chapter 10 Urbanization, the Working Class, and Reform / Ronn Pineo James A. Baer |
| Notes |
"04 June 2010"--Colophon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Latin America
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Urbanization -- Latin America.
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Working class -- Housing -- Latin America
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Working class -- Medical care -- Latin America
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Working class -- Political activity -- Latin America
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City and town life.
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Urbanization.
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Working class -- Housing.
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Working class -- Medical care.
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Working class -- Political activity.
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Latin America.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baer, James A.
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Pineo, Ronn F., 1954-
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| ISBN |
0429970196 |
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9780429970191 |
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