...Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein; William Summerhill Abstract This study, based on an extraordinary agricultural census carried out in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1905, analyzes both the importance and the structure of the fazendas (coffee plantations) in that state and shows...

...Sandra Kiesow Abstract The small island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe was one of the world’s leading producers of cocoa beans in the early twentieth century. The tropical climate, the abundant precipitation, and the fertile volcanic soils of the islands contributed to a rapid development of cocoa...

...Ty M. Reese Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850 . Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 374 / Agricultural History observed contracting practices in agriculture. Most chapters closely follow papers previously...

...Anne G. Hanley Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil . By Mauricio A. Font . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2010 . 396 pp., $85.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7391-4750-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews smoothly written and highly...

... their arguments, findings, and methods to gain insight into the role that economies and technology play in agricul? tural history in other regions and times. Paul D. Mitchell Texas A&M University Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850. By Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Stanford: Stanford...

... Library, New Haven, Conn. T. G. Chittenden, General Manager of Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, to the President of Brazil, Aug. 9, 1920, lata 1920-C, Documentos Avulsos, APMT J. F. de Mello Nogueira, Excursão a Matto Grosso Artigos Publicados no Commercio de S. Paulo (São Paulo: Typ. do...

... to assess the nature of the labor regime, Burtt first traveled to Portugal and then to most of its African colonies, including (in order): the cocoa-producing islands of são Tomé and Príncipe; the nearby, labor-supplying colony of Angola; and, finally, on the far side of the continent, Mozambique. As Higgs...

... straightforward style and supporting explanations make this work ac? cessible to even the nonspecializing reader. The Seed Was Planted: The Sao Paulo Roots of Brazil fs Rural Labor Move? ment, 1924-1964. By Cliff Welch. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 448 pp., hardback, $65.00, ISBN 0...

.... -general literature -vol. I of Obras Completas de Monteiro Lobato, 19th ed. (1959; repr.; São Paulo: Editora Brasiliense, 1975), 143^4. 7 Relatório 1943 Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Gráfica Pimenta de Mello, 1944), 70. Carvalho, "Os Urus Já Não Mais Cantam," 72-73, 119, 123...

... notwithstanding the familiarity of its context and content, this work offers insights into the forms and varieties of agricultural production possible in the period. gerhard Seibert s piece on São Tomé and Príncipe, for example, is exceptionally instructive on the models of sugar production in africa until...

...” for twelve Black rural communities in two very different regions: Bahia (in the northeast) and the interior of São Paulo. This attention to regional differences is an important complement to the scholarly literature, as it provides a deeper understanding of the history, local conditions, demographics, crops...

.... Donnithorne, Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya: A Study in Economic Development (London: Allen & Unwin, 1954), 141. 77. State Agricultural Officer (SAO) Johore, “Minute,” Oct. 31, 1933, CL&M 447/33, ANM-JB. 78. Pakiam, “Smallholder Involvement,” Appendix 5.3. 79. CLM Johore...

... ); Visconde de Vilarinho de São Romão , Viticultura e vinicultura: Tráz os Montes-Alto Douro Central ( Lisboa : Imprensa Nacional , 1896 ); António Sena , História da Imagem fotográfica em Portugal: 1839–1997 ( Porto : Porto Editora , 1998 ). Port Wine Landscape: Railroads, Phylloxera...

... agricultural development, originating in Southeast Asia in the fourth century BCE, then moving into China, Arabia, Persia, and the Mediterranean throughout the Middle Ages. What Mintz discusses as a sugar revolution, really took off by the 1540s when it became an important colonial commodity in Madeira and São...