| Author/Contributor(s): | Stein, Stanley J |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Date: | 01/21/1986 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.