| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
An eternal verdure: the longue dure of the zona da mata -- A laboring landscape: the environmental discourse of the Northeast's sugar elite, from Nabuco to Freyre -- A landscape of captivity: power and the definition of work and space -- Modernizing the sugar industry: cane expansion and the path toward rationalization -- The zona da mata aflame: political upheaval, strikes, and fire -- The only game in town: workers, planters, and the dictatorship -- An agricultural boom and its unexpected consequences -- Conclusion: power, labor, and the agro-environment of Pernambuco's sugarcane fields |
| Summary |
This study traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key north-eastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, the author confronts the day-to-day world of farming - the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sugar trade -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
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Sugarcane industry -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
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Sugarcane industry -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Sugar trade
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Sugarcane industry -- Environmental aspects
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Sugarcane industry -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Pernambuco (Brazil) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85099997
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| Subject |
Brazil -- Pernambuco
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807899588 |
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0807899585 |
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9781469603902 |
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146960390X |
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