Book ID: CBB001211190

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (2010)

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Rogers, Thomas D. (Author)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xvi + 302 pp.; ill.
Language: English

"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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Review Guha, Sumit (2011) Review of "The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 499-501). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tom Philpott
Metz, John D.
Blanc, Jacob
Marsha L. Weisiger
Casey, Matthew
Biasillo, Roberta
Concepts
Agriculture
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Farms
Labor and laborers
Farmers
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
17th century
Places
United States
Brazil
Africa
Atlantic world
Arkansas (U.S.)
Libya
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