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 ultrastar dc hc550 American social sciences that emphasizes nineteenth-century modernity in the region as an opaque process (a mere attempt at imitating the Western European “pure” model), I w