{"product_id":"slavery-and-the-economy-of-francisco-vidal-luna-9780804748599","title":"Slavery and the Economy of S縊 Paulo, 1750-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday the Brazilian state of S縊 Paulo is one of the world's most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, however, is poorly understood. Most scholarly attention has been paid to the period after 1850, when coffee rose to economic dominance, or to the period since 1880, when large-scale European immigration turned the city of S縊 Paulo into one of the largest metropolises in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book thus provides the first comprehensive portrait of the economy and people of S縊 Paulo during the critical transition from the traditional eighteenth-century colonial world to the modernizing world of the nineteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe result is a major rethinking of the history of early slavery in Brazil--it shows that, contrary to previous beliefs, slavery was as deeply entrenched and exploited in S縊 Paulo as elsewhere in Brazil, and that the state's early economic growth (as the world's leading coffee-producing region after 1850) was made possible by an expanding African slave labor force. This raises many questions about S縊 Paulo's supposed \"exceptionalism\" and challenges the standard account of the state's economic history, which has been strongly shaped by ideas of path dependence. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to studying the slave-owning class, the authors investigate the economic role of free whites and colored who did not own slaves, and compare S縊 Paulo's slave society and economy with other such regions in the Americas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804748594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804748599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.34w x 0.68d","brand":"Francisco Vidal Luna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120257134847,"sku":"9780804748599","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7d5f99c-9100-4a83-b2f4-ed7396fe01e3.jpg?v=1687413338","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slavery-and-the-economy-of-francisco-vidal-luna-9780804748599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}