Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil: directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization

Peopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immigration of the end of the century, José Juan Pérez Meléndez examines the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and sett...

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Main Author: Pérez Meléndez, José Juan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
Series:Cambridge Latin American studies
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Online Access:DE-12
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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 of 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. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
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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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 399 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009281874
DOI:10.1017/9781009281874

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