José Juan Pérez Meléndez

Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9781009281843
• ISBN-10: 1009281844
• Artikelnr.: 69300361

Autorenporträt

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.