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...Seth Garfield [email protected] Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation . By Julia J. S. Sarreal . California Studies in Food and Culture . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi , 375 pp. Paper...

...Paul Gootenberg [email protected] Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region . By Rebekah E. Pite . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 296 pp. Paper...

... yerba mate del Paraguay (1780-1870) . By Whigham Thomas . Asunción : Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociologicos , 1991 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography . 152 pp. Paper . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Politics of River Trade accurately describes this well...

...Seth Garfield [email protected] The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History . By Christine Folch . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2024 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 253 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Copyright © 2025...

... Corrientes, Santa Fé and Buenos Aires. This intercolonial trade in yerba mate, tobacco, and other agricultural and pastoral commodities was a small but vital part of the Paraguayan economy, for it allowed colonists to buy a few luxury goods imported from Spain. 7 Paraguay’s most important export...

... Paraguay and her neighbors, even though Dr. Francia desired to exchange Paraguayan yerba mate and tobacco for the armaments necessary to guarantee national survival. To keep the constricted trade routes open, Francia was willing to grant large concessions to a young Scottish merchant, John Parish Robertson...

... well in both undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of the book, although they can also be used in survey courses covering most parts of the Americas. jason dyck, University of Western Ontario doi 10.1215/00182168-11834496 The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History. By christine folch...

... of the recording labels of the period but a noncommercial special issue recorded by one of the most important yerba mate producers in order to promote its products. Considering that the yerba mate barons were also important political and economic actors in the first part of the twentieth century, it could...

... was the geographical area and products of the trade in which he specialized, i.e., whether the bulk of a wholesale merchant’s activity was in efectos de Castilla (Spanish goods and European reexports), or in agricultural products, yerba maté, hides and tallow. In the early years of the viceroyalty, the most powerful...

..., for which he provides the necessary methodology and equations. The author draws a clear relationship between Paraguay’s three major geographic sections and the overall economy of the Río de la Plata (i.e., the North’s yerba trade with Brazil, the Chaco’s tannin extract industry, and the South’s commerce...

... kilometers, is extremely isolated and populated by fewer than 200,000 people, most of whom speak only Guaraní and are illiterate. Economic activity in the region has been dormant since a decline in demand for yerba mate and quebracho wood, formerly used for tanning extract and railroad ties. Cattle...

... Garavaglia’s study of the production and distribution of yerba maté. Beginning in the 1560s, the Spaniards entered the trade in Paraguay, and maté rapidly displaced sugar and wine as the region’s principal export. Facilitated by an extensive riverine system of transport composed of the Paraná and its...

.... Throughout the book all Indians are referred to as savages and the Guaranís are stereotyped as “thieves and assassins” (p. 108) and later as “incapable and cowardly” (p. 151). Certainly Indian labor, Indian skills and technology (particularly in the production of products like yerba), and Indian culture...

... and bureaucratic initiatives in the late colonial period. He discusses tobacco, yerba, and the wood industry, but his most useful chapters explore social relations and business practice in the interrelated areas of shipbuilding, naval stores, and riverine commerce. The factory created to produce naval cables...

... efforts, only the yerba mate industry experienced a great expansion and prosperity. “Paraguay is not a country—it is an obsession (p. xvi).” With this quotation, the dean of North American Paraguayanists wryly alludes to the obstacles to research into the modern history of this nation. Yet...

... companies had brought capital into the nation in anticipation of a railroad boom. Land values doubled, and the pastoral industry received an impetus which served it well during the wartime demand for cattle products. A similar expansion occurred in the yerba mate and timber industries. At the same time...

... became a supplier of raw materials such as yerba mate, timber, tobacco, quebracho, and cattle products to the outside world. Immense tracts of national lands were reserved for foreign companies and a small elite. The Paraguayan economy rapidly became captive to foreign interests. The campesino...

... of Paraguay.” Hopkins “had received without Lopez’s knowledge or consent, the monopoly of the yerba trade.” López “was on excellent terms with the Rothschilds as well as the famous financiers John and Alfred Blyth.” Also “there was untold wealth in the country . . . where gold was merely a bright object...

... to elaborate clear strategies for the economic development of Indian communities in Paraguay. Considerable experimentation occurred. Through fits and starts, the Guaraní and the Jesuits together forged a sophisticated economy based on ranching, weaving, and the cultivation of yerba maté and other cash crops...

... in Paraguayan villages, it did not originate in the massive death of males in the Paraguayan War (1864-70) but rather was a logical outcome of the absence of men as they labored in the extractive yerba industry—a practice that had its roots in the colonial period and in one way or another continued well...