Title: Feeding the city : from street market to liberal reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 /
Authors: Graham, Richard, 1934-
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Produce trade Brazil Salvador History.; Food supply Government policy Brazil Salvador.; Salvador (Brazil) Government policy.; Salvador (Brazil) Social conditions.
Contents: The city on a bay -- From streets and doorways -- Connections -- "People of the sea" -- The grains market -- The cattle and meat trade -- Contention -- "The true enemy is hunger" : the siege of Salvador -- A tremor in the social order -- Meat, manioc, and Adam Smith -- "The people do not live by theories".