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...Lawrence A. Clayton Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933 . By Gonzalez Michael J. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1985 . Tables. Figure. Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. 235 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

...E. Franklin Frazier Village and Plantation Life in Northeastern Brazil . By Hutchinson Harry William . Seattle, Washington , 1957 . University of Washington Press . The American Ethnological Society. A Monograph from the Research and Training Program for the Study of Man...

... statement. But, if true, it merely indicates the lasting influence of Freyre’s views and arguments on the historiography. In effect, Freyre’s first major work, published in 1933 with the title Casa-grande & senzala (literally, The Plantation Big House and the Slave Quarters but translated...

...José O. Solá American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934 . By Ayala César J. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1999 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 321 pp. Cloth, $55.00 . Paper, $21.95...

... development. 2 Although rather divergent explanations of the failure of the Rubber Boom are proffered, scholars consistently have focused on problems related to the supply of wild rubber, the social relations of extraction, and the failure of plantation development; some or all of which are seen to have...

.... Equally important, the products of capitalistic agriculture, destined for international markets, required a ready source of cheap labor. The first portion of this essay will examine the process of development by focusing on the creation of a rubber plantation called La Zacualpa, located in the coastal...

...Kempton Webb Sharecroppers of the Sertão: Economics and Dependence on a Brazilian Plantation . By Johnson Allen W. . Stanford, California , 1971 . Stanford University Press . Tables. Illustrations. Figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 153. Cloth . $6.95 . Copyright 1971...

...Catherine C. Legrand Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 T he cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owned sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were some of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest...

...Ana Lucia Araujo Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Dale W. Tomich , Rafael de Bivar Marquese , Reinaldo Funes Monzote , and Carlos Venegas Fornias . Chapel Hill : University of North...

...Stuart Schwartz The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History . By Curtin Philip D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Preface. Maps. Graphs. Appendix. Index , ix , 222 pp. Cloth . $39.50 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press...

...Lowell Gudmundson Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation . By Bourgois Philippe I. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1989 . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 311 . Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1990 by Duke...

...Frank Moya Pons This book is important in that it successfully combines old graphic materials with an intellectual approach that looks at plantation life and economy from a spatial perspective. It is one of the most informative and readable books recently written about any of the Caribbean...

...W.S.C. Volta Redonda: A Steel Mill Comes to a Brazilian Coffee Plantation. Industrial Entrepreneurship in a Developing Economy . By Rady Donald Edmund . Albuquerque , 1973 . Rio Grande Publishing Company . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Bibliographies . Pp. xii , 380 . Cloth...

...Franklin W. Knight The strength of the book lies in its attack on the seemingly overbearing power of large corporations in the Caribbean. Persistent Poverty intelligently analyses the banes of the plantation society. Nevertheless, the validity and force of its diagnosis and dictates rapidly...

... to the literature. Third, despite the fact that the sugar plantations were every bit as integrated into the world market as were those in the rest of the Caribbean, Puerto Rican plantations were of significantly smaller scale. This may have been because of the scarcity of finance capital, compounded...

... attention. The material is fresh and exciting, and reflects years of hard work in half a dozen archives in several countries. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Coffee and Peasants in Guatemala: The Origins of the Modern Plantation Economy in Guatemala, 1853-1897 . By Cambranes J...

...Raymond E. Crist Courtenay has exhaustively analyzed the factors behind the world distribution of plantations in the twentieth century, such as differential labor costs, national and international restriction or control schemes, commodity agreements, and the competition from small landholders...

... Press 1981 Portuguese Brazil: The King’s Plantation . By Lang James . New York : Academic Press , 1979 . Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 266 . Cloth. $24.00 . ...