House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

by Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292727577
• ISBN13: 9780292727571
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book on early history of Rio de Janeiro.

This book provides an excellent view on the life on all classes of people living in Brazil throughout the eighteenth century. Well doucumented, easy to read, and fascinating.