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Vassouras

By Stein, Stanley J.

Vassouras

By Stein, Stanley J.

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
360
Release Date:
1986-01-21
Publication Date:
1986-01-21
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691022364
ISBN13:
9780691022369
Weight:
584 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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