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Abolitionism
Agriculture
Agriculture (Chinese mythology)
Author_Stanley J. Stein
Barracoon
Bembo
Canjica (dish)
Capitalism
Cassava
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Coffee bean
Coffee production
Cornmeal
Cuckold
Cultivator
Curtailment
Dahomey
Economy and Society
Endemic (epidemiology)
Engenho
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Exhaustion
Extended family
Fazenda
Foreclosure
Frank Tannenbaum
Freedman
God
Godparent
Grandparent
His Family
Imperial Government (Ottoman Empire)
Impossibility
Ipecacuanha
Jongo
Juvenal
Malaria
Manumission
Manure
Minas Gerais
Mulatto
Necromancy
New Harvest
Ox
Paraguayan War
Patriarchy
Plantations in the American South
Planters
Presidente (beer)
Racism in the United States
Reforestation
Ribeiro (DO)
Scurvy
Serra do Mar
Slave rebellion
Slavery
Slavery in Brazil
Steam engine
Tax
The Camp Followers
The Concubine (novel)
The Other Hand
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
The Way Back
Tristan Tzara
Usury
Vassal
Vassouras
Vaudeville
Virgin Soil
Warfare
Werneck
Winnowing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691022369
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 1986
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
