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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stanley J. SteinPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780691022369ISBN 10: 0691022364 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 21 January 1986 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsThe 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 successfully combines sound historical perspective with the microcosmic insights characteristic of contemporary community studies. --Marvin Harris, American Historical Review 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 successfully combines sound historical perspective with the microcosmic insights characteristic of contemporary community studies. -- Marvin Harris, American Historical Review 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 successfully combines sound historical perspective with the microcosmic insights characteristic of contemporary community studies. -- Marvin Harris American Historical Review Author InformationStanley 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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