Hendrik Kraay

About The Author

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.

Books by Hendrik Kraay

From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

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

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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