Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society

Stein, Stanley J.

ISBN 10: 0691022364 / ISBN 13: 9780691022369

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1986

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This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stanley J. Stein is Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture at Princeton University, and coauthor, with Barbara Hadley Stein, of The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (Oxford).

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Titel: Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-...
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good