Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil : directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization
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Peopling for profit in imperial Brazil : directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization
（Cambridge Latin American studies, 132）
Cambridge University Press, 2024
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Directed migrations and the business of nineteenth-century colonization
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-384) and index
Summary:"This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today"-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Introduction : what is colonization?
- Peopling as strategy : appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court
- Marching to the homestead : colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence
- Shareholder oligarchies : the first homegrown companies
- Palatial diplomacy : colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal
- Brazil's great transformation
- Cabinets and companies : testing the limits of the state
- The dregs of war : emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil
- Coolies and scandals : skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the Free Womb Law
- At the doorstep of mass migrations
- Conclusion : the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm