The deepest wounds
Subtitle: a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil
By: Thomas D. Rogers
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807834336; 9780807871676
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An eternal verdure: the longue dure of the zona da mata; title: A laboring landscape: the environmental discourse of the Northeast's sugar elite, from Nabuco to Freyre; title: A landscape of captivity: power and the definition of work and space; title: Modernizing the sugar industry: cane expansion and the path toward rationalization; title: The zona da mata aflame: political upheaval, strikes, and fire; title: The only game in town: workers, planters, and the dictatorship; title: An agricultural boom and its unexpected consequences; title: Conclusion: power, labor, and the agro-environment of Pernambuco's sugarcane fields.