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OverviewHenry A. Wallace Award, The Agricultural History Society, 2018 Brazil has the second-largest cattle herd in the world and is a major exporter of beef. While ranching in the Amazon-and its destructive environmental consequences-receives attention from both the media and scholars, the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul actually host the most cattle. A significant beef producer in Brazil beginning in the late nineteenth century, the region served as a laboratory for raising cattle in the tropics, where temperate zone ranching practices do not work. Mato Grosso ranchers and cowboys transformed ranching's relationship with the environment, including the introduction of an exotic cattle breed-the Zebu-that now dominates Latin American tropical ranching. Cattle in the Backlands presents a comprehensive history of ranching in Mato Grosso. Using extensive primary sources, Robert W. Wilcox explores three key aspects: the economic transformation of a remote frontier region through modern technical inputs; the resulting social changes, especially in labor structures and land tenure; and environmental factors, including the long-term impact of ranching on ecosystems, which, he contends, was not as detrimental as might be assumed. Wilcox demonstrates that ranching practices in Mato Grosso set the parameters for tropical beef production in Brazil and throughout Latin America. As the region was incorporated into national and international economic structures, its ranching industry experienced the entry of foreign investment, the introduction of capitalized processing facilities, and nascent discussions of ecological impacts-developments that later affected many sectors of the Brazilian economy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert W. WilcoxPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.626kg ISBN: 9781477311141ISBN 10: 1477311149 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 24 January 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsSelected Timeline for Cattle Ranching in Mato Grosso, 1580s-1980 Maps Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. The Paradox of Tropical Ranching Chapter 1. Mirror of the Land: Regional Geography and Environmental Imperatives Chapter 2. Establishing Roots: The Ranching Economy to 1914 Chapter 3. A Boom of Sorts: The Ranching Economy, 1914-1950 Chapter 4. Land Access: Opportunities and Obstacles Chapter 5. Cowboys, Hands, and Native Peoples: Labor Relations Chapter 6. The Dynamics of the Mundane: Everyday Ranching Chapter 7. National Breeds and Hindu Idols Conclusion. Transformation and Continuity Notes Glossary IndexReviewsA significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography * A welcome, and important, contribution…one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography * A welcome, and important, contribution...one of the best studies of the historic development of ranching in the American tropics. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Wilcox reveals the complex environmental, economic, and social history of one of the country's most important agricultural industries...Cattle in the Backlands provides a necessary, and previously under explored, history of a regional industry [and] is valuable reading for scholars of agro-industrial development within Brazil and beyond. * Luso-Brazilian Review * One of the most thoroughly researched histories of cattle ranching in Latin America written to date...this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to existing scholarship on cattle ranching in the Americas and will be of broader interest to agricultural, environmental, and social historians interested in understanding historical relationships between people, animals, and the land. * Hispanic American Historical Review * A significant achievement...Cattle in the Backlands helps us think more deeply about the importance of animals to peripheral economic development and about conditions in Brazil's many 'backlands' that faced similar struggles against distance, land-tenure insecurity, lack of credit, and physical environment. * Journal of Latin American Geography * Author InformationRobert W. Wilcox is an associate professor of history at Northern Kentucky University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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