Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil

Hendrik Kraay is a professor of history at the University of Calgary and the author of Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889. Teresa Cribelli is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Celso Thomas Castilho is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and the author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAbbreviationsNote on Currency and OrthographyIntroduction: From Colonial Gazettes to the "Largest Circulation in South America"Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, Teresa CribelliChapter One. The "Print Arena": Press, Politics, and the Public Sphere, 1822-1840Marcello BasileChapter Two. "Adapted to Our Customs and Dictated by Our Interests": The Press and the African Slave Trade, 1831-1840Alain El YoussefChapter Three. Printers, Typographers, and Readers: Slavery and Print CultureRodrigo Camargo de GodoiChapter Four. Outbreaks, Shares, and Contracts: The Press and the Migrant TradeJosé Juan Pérez MeléndezChapter Five. Fictionalizing CrÔnicas: Transformations of an Article GenreLudmila de Souza MaiaChapter Six. "FOR RENT" and "FOR SALE": Newspapers, Advertising, Property, and Markets in Rio de Janeiro, 1820s-1890sMatthew Nestler and Zephyr FrankChapter Seven. Much More Than Images: Visual Culture and the Public Sphere in Illustrated Satirical MagazinesArnaldo Lucas Pires JuniorChapter Eight. To "Judge the State of This Province": Correspondence to Rio de Janeiro Newspapers from Bahia, 1868Hendrik KraayChapter Nine. Apedidos and Public Discourse: Paid Letters and Articles in the Jornal do Commercio, 1870Teresa CribelliChapter Ten. The Sun Rises in the North: Brazilian Periodicals Published in the United States in the 1870sRoberto SabaChapter Eleven. A "Gallery of Illustrious Men of Color": Recife's O Homem, the Black Press, and Transatlantic Literary GenresCelso Thomas CastilhoBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

An excellent introduction to nineteenth-century Brazilian newspapers." —Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof, author of Household Economy and Urban Development: Sᾶo Paulo, 1765 to 1836 "This volume gathers a dynamic and original collection of essays that shed new light on how Brazilians of all backgrounds used the press to participate in public debates." —Oscar de la Torre, author of The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945