Stanley J. Stein

Broschiertes Buch

Vassouras

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Stanley J. Stein With a new preface by the author and thirty-nine new illustrations

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780691022369
• ISBN-10: 0691022364
• Artikelnr.: 21533519

Rezensionen

By narrowing his canvas to one municipio, the author successfully combines sound historical perspective with the microcosmic insights characteristic of contemporary community studies.