The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern 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, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow. Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-3433-6
- EAN: 9780807834336
- Produktnummer: 7302928
- Verlag: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.5 cm 590 g
- Gewicht: 590
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