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B. J. Barickman - Bahian Counterpoint - 9780804726320 - V9780804726320
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Bahian Counterpoint

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Description for Bahian Counterpoint Hardback. This book integrates research on the production and marketing of basic foodstuffs for local needs into an investigation of slavery and export agriculture. It opens new perspectives for understanding how, during more than three centuries, slavery, plantations, and export agriculture shaped social and economic life in Brazil. Num Pages: 300 pages, 4 maps,bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.

This is the first study, for any region of colonial or nineteenth-century Brazil, to integrate research on the production and marketing of basic foodstuffs for local needs into an investigation of slavery and export agriculture. It thus forges a link between what have until now been two separate strands of scholarship in the field of Brazilian history, opening new perspectives for understanding how, during more than three centuries, slavery, plantations, and export agriculture shaped social and economic life in Brazil.

This book examines the social-economic history of the region known as the Recôncavo in the province (now state) of Bahia ... Read more

The book also systematically compares the use of slave labor, landholding, and agricultural practices in the production of the Recôncavo's three main crops: sugar, tobacco, and cassava. The comparison reveals an agrarian economy where, relying on slave labor, great planters and small farmers alike adapted land use and agricultural practices not only to specific crop requirements, but also to the demands of both overseas and local markets. The adaptations they made created a complex and varied social landscape in a region long thought to be dominated almost exclusively by large plantations. The comparison further reveals striking contrasts between sugar and tobacco. Neither merely another example of export monoculture nor strictly a peasant activity, tobacco farming in the Recôncavo demonstrates that, within slave-based export agriculture, there were alternatives to the plantation.

Both for Brazil and for many other areas of the Americas, A Bahian Counterpoint challenges established arguments about slavery, export agriculture, and the development of an internal economy.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804726320
SKU
V9780804726320
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About B. J. Barickman
B. J. Barickman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Reviews for Bahian Counterpoint
'This study of Brazilian slave society breaks with a number of old historical traditions while contributing to certain new ones ... it cannot fail to challenge our understanding of the complexities of the economics of slaves and sugar in the New World, and expand our knowledge of the dicersity of the ruralhistory of the region of Bahia. Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

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