B.J. Barickman

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B. J. Barickman (1958-2016) was an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona. While he began his research career as a scholar of Bahia's sugar-plantation economy, he later turned his interests to urban Rio de Janeiro's society and culture. His previous works include A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860.

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Books by B.J. Barickman

From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

By B.J. Barickman

Edited by Hendrik Kraay and Bryan McCann

2023 Honorable Mention, Warren Dean Prize in Brazilian HistoryIn From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a ...

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