Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934

by Thomas H. Holloway

Overview

When slavery was abolished in 1888, Sao Paulo, Brazil, subsidized the immigration of workers from southern Europe and Japan. Faced with a worldwide coffee market and abundant land for expansion, native planters developed a package of incentives to attract workers, in contrast to the coercive labor systems historically common in other plantation systems. By the 1930s a clear majority of the small and medium-sized coffee farms were owned by first-generation immigrants.

Originally published 1980.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807836125
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Series:	Enduring Editions
Edition description:	1
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Thomas H. Holloway is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has served as Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University, where he taught from 1974 to 2000, as President of the Latin American Studies Association (2000-2001), and as Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History (2003-2007). He is also the author of Policing Rio de Janeiro (1993), and is the general editor of A Companion to Latin American History (2008).