"This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today"--
"This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today"--
José Juan Pérez Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in nineteenth-century Brazil and world history. He serves as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. This is his first book.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction What is Colonization? Part I. Colonization's Statecraft: 1. Peopling as strategy: appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court 2. Marching to the homestead: colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence Part II. Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade: 3. Shareholder oligarchies: the first homegrown companies 4. Palatial diplomacy: colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal 5. Brazil's great transformation Part III. Disentangling Companies and State: 6. Cabinets and companies: testing the limits of the state 7. The dregs of war: emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil 8. Coolies and scandals: skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the free womb law Part IV. Peopling the Country of the Future: 10. At the doorstep of mass migrations Conclusion: the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm Bibliography Index.
Introduction What is Colonization? Part I. Colonization's Statecraft: 1. Peopling as strategy: appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court 2. Marching to the homestead: colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence Part II. Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade: 3. Shareholder oligarchies: the first homegrown companies 4. Palatial diplomacy: colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal 5. Brazil's great transformation Part III. Disentangling Companies and State: 6. Cabinets and companies: testing the limits of the state 7. The dregs of war: emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil 8. Coolies and scandals: skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the free womb law Part IV. Peopling the Country of the Future: 10. At the doorstep of mass migrations Conclusion: the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm Bibliography Index.
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