... emperor. Bahia's radical liberals drew strong support from the nonwhite lower classes in the city of Salvador and from the army rank and file. These popular movements reveal the widespread appeal of the radical liberal program. The repression that followed these movements indicates that the Bahian planter...

... diversified labor pool. By looking at the history of finca San Juan las Chicharras, this article explores both the day-to-day functioning of coffee plantations and the ways in which workers, planters, and politicians alike grappled with the redirection of their output toward ever more lucrative export...

... argues throughout the rest of the book that the conditions of the late period of slavery in the British-colonized Caribbean, once the Atlantic slave trade was under threat and then abolished, led to particularly focused attention on children by planters and managers. Vasconcellos aims to tell the “story...

... is told largely by the men and women of Diriomo. The words of peons, planters, and local officials who lived a century ago have survived in court records, official correspondence, estate papers, and the mountain of paperwork generated by Nicaragua’s forced-labor regime. Alongside voices from...

...Rafael Marquese Based on the crop accounts series for the plantations that have substantial managerial correspondence, the author examines how planter management affected production levels and therefore the pace of economic decline. The managerial structure of plantations directed from a long...

...-grande—or planter household— that not only figures in the title of Freyre’s most influential book but also holds a central place in his and other interpretations of Brazil’s past. Indeed, for Freyre, the family structures that would shape Brazilian society from the colo- nial period into the nineteenth...

..., Candlin argues, “were not simply concubines and bit players in a European colonial drama but were creditors, partners, mothers and fellow planters participating on much the same level as their white counterparts” (p. 28). If the region's porous borders vexed Picton and other British officials, they...

... the party most identified with the dominant planter-merchant elites who battened off African slavery and its export production. The present study, focusing on the crucial, formative period of 1831– 40, offers an analytical explanation of the...

... probably refugees who were looking to avoid the bullets but happened to get rounded up. If anything, that makes the story more dastardly still. Whatever the ultimate truth in this matter, Cuban planters would have been overjoyed to receive more of these agriculturally gifted newcomers, whether by force or...

... workers follows the same logic. Planters employed the management tactics from slavery to successive groups of workers until economic crisis and Cuban xenophobic nationalism closed Cuban borders in the 1930s. Initially, Caribbean migrants were recruited amid rising Afro-Cuban mobilization. Soon, Howard...

... around “the effects of falling birthrates, rising rates of infant mortality, and population ‘degeneration’” (p. 8). The effects of emancipation on sugar production and profitability in the British Caribbean increasingly disillusioned the planter class there. Quite naturally, the blame for the...

... practical, not ideological, rational, not backward. Swidden agriculture was cheaper and better suited to local conditions, while plows and tractors were difficult to maintain and repair. A study of patent activity revealed that planters were innovative when it made economic sense, such as substituting...

... because of the natural wealth of the soil and climate. Aside from a few planters’ manuals and debates over the morality and efficacy of slavery, coffee production was little analyzed.14 Few records and little data were available—there was only one fairly...

... degeneration caused by exploitation at the hands of “barbaric” European and ladino coffee planters. At the heart of these disputes was the problem of how to achieve Guatemalan political modernity, which focused Altaverapacence discursive and material struggles over mandamientos around questions of national...

.... alejandro de la fuente, University of Pittsburgh Manuel Moreno Fraginals: An Appreciation Manuel Moreno Fraginals authored one of the masterpieces of twentieth- century historiography, El ingenio, in which he reconstructed the efforts of Cuban planters to build one of the Atlantic world’s...

.... alejandro de la fuente, University of Pittsburgh Manuel Moreno Fraginals: An Appreciation Manuel Moreno Fraginals authored one of the masterpieces of twentieth- century historiography, El ingenio, in which he reconstructed the efforts of Cuban planters to build one of the Atlantic world’s...

... literary biography of José Arango y Nuñez del Castillo offers a useful, albeit limited, portrait of one member of Cuba's planter elite in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Manuel Hernández González begins with a description of the dense interlocking family ties of the aristocratic sugar...

... Toussaint Louverture. The strong proslavery and antiabolitionist arguments of Cuban planter Arango y Parreño (whose role in launching Cuba's sugar revolution and in defending slavery against the attacks of Blanco White is analyzed by Ferrer and Schmidt-Nowara) and Catalan industrialist López y López (a...

... defense of the slave trade. In fact, many other books with less discussion of race have included this word in their titles. The main argument of Slavery and Politics comes in two parts. First, because Brazil and Cuba “shared a common space of experience” with entangled Iberian roots, their planters...

... belie the constrained discourse, which surely aimed to divert Mexico City entrepreneurs' gaze from other merchants' and planters' fights for independence—and to silence any echo in New Spain of the risings of indigenous peoples in the Andes. Valle Pavón shows the importance of following the silver and...