Vassouras A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. the Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society |
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| Author:
| Stein, Stanley J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-07694-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1985 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.