Book
Sugar plantations in the formation of Brazilian society: Bahia, 1550-1835
Cambridge University Press • (52) • Published In 1985 • Pages: xxiii, 616
By: Schwartz, Stuart B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study Schwartz presents a detailed history of Bahian plantation society from 1550 to 1835 based not only on the traditional sources of information, but also on other little used or unnused plantation records (where they exist), notorial and ecclesiastical registers, and more commonly on administrative and private correspondence (p. xiii). The work is divided into four parts. Part I describes the origins of the Brazilian plantation system and the early experience with American Indians as workers and slaves. Part II provides a detailed analyis of life and work on the sugar plantations of Bahia with discussions on life and work on these plantations, the history of the sugar economy, the process of sugar making, and plantation finance. Part III is a general discussion of the organizational principles of plantation society. The final section of this book, part IV, provides a general discussion of the political and economic trends of the late colonial and early national periods as background for an examination of slaveholding in Bahian society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Special crops
- Confectionery industries
- Real property
- Price and value
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Slavery
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bahia Brazilians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1550-1835
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bahia, Brazil, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stuart B. Schwartz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-592) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85006716
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bahia (Brazil : State)