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Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County 1850 - 1900
Vassouras A Brazilian Coffee County 1850 1900 Author:Stanley J. Stein This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and ban... more »kruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.« less