...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...

...David McCreery Coffee and Peasants in Guatemala: The Origins of the Modern Plantation Economy in Guatemala, 1853-1897 . By Cambranes J. C. . Stockholm : Institute of Latin American Studies , 1985 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 334 . Paper. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press...

...Rafael Marquese Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807–1838 . By Gosse Dave St. Aubyn . Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 236 pp. Paper , $30.00 . Copyright ©...

...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...

... manner presents a short synopsis of the trade, how it operated, and its impact on Atlantic history. Neglected, however, are British North America and the U. S. South, which Curtin believes were structurally and demographically different from the heart of the plantation complex represented by the sugar...

...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...

...Raymond E. Crist Plantation Agriculture . By Courtenay P. P. . New York , 1965 . Frederick A. Praeger . Praeger Surveys in Economic Geography . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index . Pp. viii , 208 . $6.00 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 In this volume...

... States, Cuba, and Brazil, supported with a rich array of visual images. Most are maps and panoramas of plantations of cotton, sugar, and coffee. Some depict the harbors and plantation mansions. Several others show interior views of mills and warehouses, especially those produced by French artist Eduardo...

...Franklin W. Knight Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World . By Beckford George L. . New York and London , 1972 . Oxford University Press . Tables. Illustrations. Charts. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxvii , 303 . Cloth. $7.50...

...Donald E. Worcester 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 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 In this work James Lang analyzes...

...Dale W. Tomich Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica . By Craton Michael and Greenland Garry . Cambridge , 1978 . Harvard University Press . Illustrations. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes . Pp. xxiii , 439 . Cloth. $32.50...

... was concentrated on the Newton plantation, which was one of the largest in the island during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The dig, however, yielded fewer artifacts than the investigators had hoped. Organic material had been obliterated by the island’s tropical environment, and many...

...Robert Conrad Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820-1920 . By Dean Warren . Stanford , 1976 . Stanford University Press . Tables. Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. xvii , 234 . Cloth. $11.50 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 The historiography of Brazil has...

...H. Hoetink Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba . By Hall Gwendolyn Mildo . Baltimore, Maryland, and London, England , 1971 . Johns Hopkins Press . The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 89th Series...

... 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...

.... 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...