Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil : directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization / José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Meléndez, José Juan, author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 132.

Cambridge Latin American studies ; 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil--History--Empire, 1822-1889.

Brazil.

Brazil--Colonization--History--19th century.

Colonial companies--Brazil--History.

Colonial companies.

Brazil--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xxi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"'Peopling for Profit' provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immigration at the end of the century, José Juan Pérez Meléndez examines the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and settlement in post-independence Brazil. The book explores Brazil's connections to global colonization drives and migratory movements, unveiling how the Brazilian Empire's engagement with privately run colonization models from overseas crucially informed the domestic sphere. It further reveals that the rise of a for-profit colonization model indelibly shaped Brazilian peopling processes and governance by creating a feedback loop between migration management and government formation. Pérez Meléndez sheds new light on how directed migrations and the business of colonization shaped Brazilian demography as well as enduring social, racial, and class inequalities."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: What Is Colonization?

Part II: Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade

Part III: Disentangling Companies and State

Part IV: Peopling the Country of the Future.

Introduction: What is colonization?

Peopling as strategy: Appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court

Marching to the homestead: Colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence

Shareholder oligarchies: The first homegrown companies

Palatial diplomacy: Colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal

Brazil's great transformation

Cabinets and companies: Testing the limits of the state

The dregs of war: Emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil

Coolies and scandals: Skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the Free Womb Law

At the doorstep of mass migrations

Conclusion: The afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-384) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pérez Meléndez, José Juan. Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil

ISBN:

9781009281843

1009281844

9781009281850

1009281852

OCLC:

1392340933