The Deepest Wounds: A Labor And Environmental History Of Sugar In Northeast Brazil,New

The Deepest Wounds: A Labor And Environmental History Of Sugar In Northeast Brazil,New

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In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugargrowing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the daytoday world of farmingthe complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, 'Monoculture, slavery, and latifundiabut principally monoculturethey opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the deepest wounds.' Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells the story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy. This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human damage.Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today.

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