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deepest wounds
2010,2014
Overview
In The Deepest Wounds , Thomas D. Rogers traces social and
environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's
key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the
period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth
century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new
levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the
complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making
sugarcane grow. Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre,
whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, \"Monoculture, slavery,
and latifundia--but principally monoculture--they opened here, in
the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the
deepest wounds.\" Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells the
story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among
changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human
perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic
policy. This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both
shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human
damage. Combining a study of workers with analysis of their
landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of
labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in
agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences
Brazil's development even today.
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press
Subject
/ Brazil
/ Damage
/ HISTORY
/ Labor & Employment Relations
/ Labor & Industrial Relations
/ Pernambuco (Brazil) -- History
/ Slavery
/ Sugar trade -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
/ Sugarcane industry -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
/ Sugarcane industry -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- History
ISBN
0807834335, 0807871672, 9780807871676, 9780807834336
