Feeding the city
Subtitle: from street market to liberal reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860
By: Richard Graham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780292722996; 9780292723269
Subjects: Produce trade -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History; Food supply -- Government policy -- Salvador (Brazil); Salvador (Brazil) -- Government policy; Salvador (Brazil) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The city on a bay; title: From streets and doorways; title: Connections; title: "People of the sea"; title: The grains market; title: The cattle and meat trade; title: Contention; title: "The true enemy is hunger" : the siege of Salvador; title: A tremor in the social order; title: Meat, manioc, and Adam Smith; title: "The people do not live by theories".