The deepest wounds :: a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil /

This study traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key north-eastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new leve...

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1. Verfasser: Rogers, Thomas D., 1974-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung:This study traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key north-eastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, the author confronts the day-to-day world of farming - the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780807899588
0807899585
9781469603902
146960390X

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