A Bahian counterpoint
A Bahian counterpoint: sugar, tobacco, cassava, and slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860 B. J. Barickman
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0804726329
DDC: 338.1098142
LCC: HD1875
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Summary:
"This book examines the social-economic history of the region known
as the Reconcavo in the province (now state) of Bahia in Northeastern
Brazil. In the early nineteenth century, the Reconcavo ranked as one
of the oldest and most important slaveholding regions in the Americas
and, within Brazil, as a major center of sugar and tobacco
production. A Babian Counterpoint shows that, although often
dismissed as peripheral or marginal activities in the literature on
Brazil, the production and marketing of foodstuffs for internal
consumption played a crucial role in the development of the
Reconcavo's slave-based export economy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263) and index.
Weights and Measures, Currency, Orthography, and Fiscal and Calendar
Years -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Export Economy, 1780-1860 -- 3.Farinha
de Mandioca - "The Bread of the Land" - and Its Market -- 4.Crises
and Trends in the Regional Farinha Market -- 5.Land -- 6.Labor --
7.Production -- 8.Conclusions -- App.Postmortem Inventories and
Manuscript Censuses.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xx, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (cloth : alk. paper)
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