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The deepest wounds : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil
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The deepest wounds : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil / Thomas D. Rogers.
ISBN
9780807834336 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807834335 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807871676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807871672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xvi, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-295) and index.
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.
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