Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil : Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization / José Juan Pérez Meléndez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Meléndez, José Juan, author.

Series:

Cambridge Latin American studies ; Number 132.

Cambridge Latin American Studies ; Number 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonial companies--Brazil--History.

Colonial companies.

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

Brazil.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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-colonization 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Sep 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009281836

1009281836

9781009281874

1009281879

9781009281867

1009281860