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The deepest wounds : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil

Print Book, English, ©2010
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2010
History
1 online resource (xvi, 302 Seiten.
9780807834336, 9780807871676, 0807834335, 0807871672
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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