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Author:   Richard Graham
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9780292722996

ISBN 10:   0292722990
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   15 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

"List of Tables; List of Illustrations; A Note on Currency, Measures, and Spelling; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The City on a Bay; Part I. Getting and Selling Food; Chapter 2. From Streets and Doorways; Chapter 3. Connections; Chapter 4. ""People of the Sea""; Chapter 5. The Grains Market; Chapter 6. The Cattle and Meat Trade; Chapter 7. Contention; Part II: Changed Rules: Reform and Resistance; Chapter 8. ""The True Enemy Is Hunger"": The Siege of Salvador; Chapter 9. A Tremor in the Social Order; Chapter 10. Meat, Manioc, and Adam Smith; Chapter 11. ""The People Do Not Live by Theories""; Conclusion; Appendix A. Purchasing Power over Time in Salvador; Appendix B. Volume of Foodstuff Handled at the Grains Market, 1785-1849 (in Alqueires); Notes; Sources; Credits for Illustrations; Index;"

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""This is an exemplary work of social history that would benefit scholars interested in both slave societies and urban provisioning."" - Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Minnesota, Journal of Social History

This is an exemplary work of social history that would benefit scholars interested in both slave societies and urban provisioning. - Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Minnesota, Journal of Social History

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RICHARD GRAHAM is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil; Independence in Latin America: A Comparative Approach; and several edited books, including The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870–1940 and Machado de Assis: Reflections on the Brazilian Master Writer.

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