The deepest wounds [electronic resource] : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil / Thomas D. Rogers.
2010
HD9114.B63 P477 2010eb
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The deepest wounds [electronic resource] : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil / Thomas D. Rogers.
Author
Rogers, Thomas D., 1974-
ISBN
9780807899588 (electronic bk.)
9780807834336
9780807871676 (pbk.)
9780807834336
9780807871676 (pbk.)
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 302 p.) : ill.
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HD9114.B63 P477 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.1/7361098134
Summary
"In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern 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, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow. Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, "Monoculture, slavery, and concentrated land ownership--but principally monoculture--opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the deepest wounds." Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells the story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy. This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human damage. Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today."--pub. desc.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
An eternal verdure: the longue dure of the zona da mata
A laboring landscape: the environmental discourse of the Northeast's sugar elite, from Nabuco to Freyre
A landscape of captivity: power and the definition of work and space
Modernizing the sugar industry: cane expansion and the path toward rationalization
The zona da mata aflame: political upheaval, strikes, and fire
The only game in town: workers, planters, and the dictatorship
An agricultural boom and its unexpected consequences
Conclusion: power, labor, and the agro-environment of Pernambuco's sugarcane fields.
A laboring landscape: the environmental discourse of the Northeast's sugar elite, from Nabuco to Freyre
A landscape of captivity: power and the definition of work and space
Modernizing the sugar industry: cane expansion and the path toward rationalization
The zona da mata aflame: political upheaval, strikes, and fire
The only game in town: workers, planters, and the dictatorship
An agricultural boom and its unexpected consequences
Conclusion: power, labor, and the agro-environment of Pernambuco's sugarcane fields.