Moral Scens from Urban Life: Moral Perception of Modernity in Imperial Brazil

In this article, I analyze moral perceptions of modernity in Rio de Janeiro between the 1850s and 1860s. Against a long theoretical tradition in the Latin American social sciences that emphasizes nineteenth-century modernity in the region as an opaque process (a mere attempt at imitating the Western...

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Main Author: Felipe Ziotti Narita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Adam Mickiewicz University 2017-03-01
Series:Praktyka Teoretyczna
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Online Access:http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/prt/article/view/8450