Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

Directed Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization

Perez Melendez, Jose Juan

Cambridge University Press

06/2024

381

Dura

Inglês

9781009281843

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Introduction; What is Colonization?; Part I. Colonization's Statecraft: 1. Peopling as strategy: appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court; 2. Marching to the homestead: colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence; Part II. Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade: 3. Shareholder oligarchies: the first homegrown companies; 4. Palatial diplomacy: colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal; 5. Brazil's great transformation; Part III. Disentangling Companies and State: 6. Cabinets and companies: testing the limits of the state; 7. The dregs of war: emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil; 8. Coolies and scandals: skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the free womb law; Part IV. Peopling the Country of the Future: 10. At the doorstep of mass migrations; Conclusion: the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm; Bibliography; Index.
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