Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization - Pérez Meléndez, José Juan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
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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