[PDF.57hy] Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society

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

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 | #1360598 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1986-01-01 |  1986-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Useful|By Richard R|This is the updated and reissued 1985 edition of Stein's seminal 1957 book, "Vassouras", an academic study of a 19th century coffee plantation in Brazil. It is interesting for the Brazil scholar, accessible, and thoroughly-researched. This edition has photos that give readers a bit more sense of time and place than the original book.
Vassouras is a to| |"The key theme is actually . . . not coffee, or even Vassouras, but the use and abuse of soil and labor under slavery and its unhappy impact upon society."--Virginia Quarterly

"By narrowing his canvas to one municipio, the author succe

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 pov...

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