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The Making of a Market
During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucatán and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional and historical example of overdependence on foreign markets and extortionary local elites. In The Making of a Market, Juliette Levy argues instead that local social and economic dynamics are the root of the region’s development. She shows how credit markets contributed to the boom before banks (and bank crises) existed and how people borrowed before the creation of institutions designed specifically to lend. As the intermediaries in this lending process, notaries became unwitting catalysts of Yucatán’s capitalist transformation. By focusing attention on the notaries’ role in structuring the mortgage market rather than on formal institutions such as banks, this study challenges the easy compartmentalization of local and global relationships and of economic and social relationships.
From Sea-bathing to Beach-going
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Through the twin themes of the environment and development, Brad D. Jokisch introduces students to the regions of Latin American and the Caribbean through a concise, comprehensive, and cohesive overview. Designed for courses in either geography or Latin American Studies, this text covers the physical geography, environmental hazards, and a concise history of the region, along with treatment of economic issues—including China’s role—urbanization, population trends, and international migration. Regional chapters on Brazil, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, the Andes, and the Southern Cone ensure that students understand the distinct areas of Latin America as well as the region a...
African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil
Examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, Bahian elites began to recognize African-Bahian cultural practices as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé during carnival and other popular religious festivals had been repressed in favor of more European traditions.
1998
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism
This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case studies that scrutinize the framework of this transformative process, analyzing new social formations that are emerging in the voids left behind by the de-industrialization, and introducing a discussion on the potential impacts of the current economic and ecological crises on the hyper-mobile model that has characterized this recent phase of global capitalism and spatially uneven development.
Die »zweite Sklaverei« ernähren
Auf den Sklavenschiffen, die im 19. Jh. zwischen Afrika und Brasilien verkehrten, waren Köche für die Versorgung der Verschleppten und der Mannschaften zuständig. In den Häfen versorgten Verkäuferinnen sowohl die Versklavten als auch Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter mit Nahrungsmitteln. Melina Teubner rückt in dieser kollektiven Biografie die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen von Menschen in den Mittelpunkt, die sonst wenig im Fokus der Geschichtsschreibung stehen, ohne die die Logistik des Sklavenhandels jedoch nicht hätte organisiert werden können. Sie leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Geschichte der »zweiten Sklaverei«, d.h. der Phase nach dem offiziellen Verbot des Sklavenhandels (1815/17 bzw. 1831 in Brasilien), sowie zu einer neueren Welt- und Globalgeschichte der Materialität von Schifffahrt, Ernährung und Arbeit.
Guia politicamente incorreto da história do Brasil
Por mais voltas que se dê, é impossível contar a história do Brasil sem falar de Portugal. A vida dos dois países sempre se cruzou mais do que se podia supor. Um enfoque novo e original. É hora de atirar tomates à historiografia politicamente correta. Este guia reúne histórias que chocam diretamente com ela. Neste livro mencionamos os erros das vítimas e dos heróis da bondade, bem como as virtudes daqueles que são considerados vilões. Alguém poderá dizer que se trata de um esforço semelhante ao dos historiadores militantes, só que na direção oposta. É verdade. Quer dizer, mais ou menos. Este livro não quer ser um falso estudo académico, como o daqueles estudiosos, e sim uma provocação. Uma pequena coletânea de pesquisas históricas sérias, irritantes e desagradáveis, escolhidas com o objetivo de enfurecer um bom número de cidadãos.
Feira
Este livro se propõe a ser um retrato. Como tal, não anseia uma transcendência que sequer poderia entregar; não propõe uma grande teoria organizacional; não espera interpretar todos os fatos que apresenta. Nem por isso, o livro deixa de ter uma unidade. Ele quer (e isso não é tarefa pouca!) mostrar como viveram, o que fizeram e o que pensaram alguns dos habitantes da Feira em um ano tão turbulento como foi o de 2020. Muitas questões se apresentaram para os feirenses e feirantes no ano: além da pandemia, que assolou toda a humanidade e forçou a mudança do próprio sentido de “normal”, os habitantes da segunda maior cidade baiana tiveram que suportar perdas, que apreender novas e velhas formas de organização do espaço público, que escolher seus representantes, que definir um rumo para a cidade na próxima década.
A Bahian Counterpoint
This book integrates research on the production and marketing of basic foodstuffs for local needs into an investigation of slavery and export agriculture. It opens new perspectives for understanding how, during more than three centuries, slavery, plantations, and export agriculture shaped social and economic life in Brazil.
