Feeding the City : : From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 /

Feeding the City : : From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860 / / Richard Graham.

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On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Graham, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • A Note on Currency, Measures, and Spelling
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The City on a Bay
  • Part I. Getting and Selling Food
  • Chapter 2. From Streets and Doorways
  • Chapter 3. Connections
  • Chapter 4. “People of the Sea”
  • Chapter 5. The Grains Market
  • Chapter 6. The Cattle and Meat Trade
  • Chapter 7. Contention
  • Part II changed rules: reform and resistance
  • Chapter 8. “The True Enemy Is Hunger”: The Siege of Salvador
  • Chapter 9. A Tremor in the Social Order
  • Chapter 10. Meat, Manioc, and Adam Smith
  • Chapter 11. “The People Do Not Live by Theories”
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Purchasing Power over Time in Salvador
  • Appendix B. Volume of Foodstuff Handled at the Grains Market, 1785– 1849 (in alqueires)
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Credits for Maps and Illustrations
  • Index

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