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The deepest wounds : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil / Thomas D. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Thomas D., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar trade--Brazil--Pernambuco--History.
- Sugar trade.
- Sugarcane industry--Environmental aspects--Brazil--Pernambuco--History.
- Sugarcane industry.
- Sugarcane industry--Social aspects--Brazil--Pernambuco--History.
- Pernambuco (Brazil)--History.
- Pernambuco (Brazil).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908853-4-0
- 979-88-9313-427-8
- 1-4696-0390-X
- 0-8078-9958-5
- OCLC:
- 676697426
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