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View From The Fazenda
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Author : Ellen Bromfield Geld
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2003
View From The Fazenda written by Ellen Bromfield Geld and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Plantation life categories.
"I imagine everyone has a center of gravity," says Ellen Bromfield Geld. "Something which binds one to the earth and gives sense and direction to what one does." For Ellen, this center is a writing table before a window that looks out upon groves of pecan trees and mahogany-colored cattle in seas of grass. The place is Fazenda Pau D'Alho, Brazil, where she and her husband, Carson, have lived and farmed since 1961. Healing the ravaged coffee plantation, rearing five children, exploring the outposts, the Gelds have created a dynamic yet peaceful life far from Ellen's native Ohio. Their practice of sustainable agriculture, and Ellen's plea for the preservation of Brazil's remaining wilderness areas, reflect the legacy of her father, the novelist and farm visionary Louis Bromfield. Their shared vision is crystallized in her account of a cattle drive across the Pantanal, the vast flood plain on Brazil's side of the Paraguay River. She describes a two-hundred year symbiosis between ranchers and a fragile ecosystem that is being threatened by development. View from the Fazenda is distilled from fifty years of living in Brazil, weaving daily life on the farm into her quest to understand a nation. It portrays a true melting pot of people who--as conquerers, immigrants, or slaves, their blood and history mingled with those of native Indians--have created the character of Brazil. This huge, diverse county, living in several eras at the same time, is ever changing through its people's amazing ability to "find a way." Ellen Bromfield Geld evokes the land and people of Brazil and offers readers an invigorating glimpse into a soulful life. "It seems to me that being a bit of a poet is perhaps the only way one can survive as a farmer," she explains. "For in the end, more than anything, farming is a way of life you either love or become bitter enduring."
Coffee Society And Power In Latin America
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Author : William Roseberry
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Coffee Society And Power In Latin America written by William Roseberry and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with History categories.
In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's "gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape." The event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that coffee imports to the United States amounted to five hundred cups per year per person. In Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, a distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine the production, processing, and marketing of this important commodity. Using coffee as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, political power, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded to the growing global demand for coffee. This unique volume offers an integrated comparative study of class formation in the coffee zones of Latin America as they were incorporated into the world economy. It offers a new theoretical and methodological approach to comparative historical analysis and will serve as a critique and counter to those who stress the homogenizing tendencies of export agriculture. The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but also to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.
Monthly Bulletin Of The International Bureau Of The American Republics
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Author : Pan American Union
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Monthly Bulletin Of The International Bureau Of The American Republics written by Pan American Union and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Pan-Americanism categories.
Rwanda
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Author : Philip Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2023-12-06
Rwanda written by Philip Briggs and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Travel categories.
Now into its eighth edition and written by Philip Briggs, the world’s leading author of African guidebooks, Bradt’s Rwanda has been the go-to guide for visitors to the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’ for more than 20 years. Still the only standalone guide in English to this increasingly popular destination, it remains in a class of its own for in-depth information. With fresh research into developments across the country, Bradt’s Rwanda includes expanded coverage of Gishwati-Mukura National Park, which opened to tourism in 2021, and up-to-date details of rapidly modernising Kigali, considered Africa’s cleanest city. Rwanda continues to change and develop at an unprecedented pace – no country has a higher proportion of female parliamentarians – and there’s hardly a more accessible part of Africa. It’s no less intriguing for the convenience, however, and Rwanda’s superlative natural attractions constantly improve, with growing animal populations, as in Akagera National Park, where Africa’s Big Five (rhino, lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo) can be seen. This new edition also includes extensive maps and natural history information, while details of kayak and canoe excursions on Lake Kivu and the Mukungwa River complement advice about staying on tea plantations at Sorwathe or Gisovu. It contains everything you need to know about tracking mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park (workplace of primatologist Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame) and chimpanzees in Nyungwe National Park (East Africa’s largest surviving montane forest, harbouring numerous endemic birds and primates) and Gishwati-Mukura (which is also the only location for the rare golden monkey outside the Virunga mountains). Also covered are Nyanza, with its hilltop Rukari King’s Palace Museum, and the Ethnographic Museum of Rwanda, the top cultural site in Butare (Huye). A chapter on nearby cities and national parks provides key necessary information to take an excursion into neighbouring DRC, including how to see lowland gorillas. As not only the most in-depth guide available in English, but also the guide with the longest history in the country itself, Bradt’s Rwanda is the indispensable companion for visitors, including wildlife enthusiasts and Africa aficionados.
Geological Survey Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Geological Survey Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Geology categories.
The Struggle For Land In Brazil
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Author : Jemera Rone
language : en
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Release Date : 1992
The Struggle For Land In Brazil written by Jemera Rone and has been published by Human Rights Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political Science categories.
Sober and gripping chronicle of the repression of demands for agrarian reform includes several well-detailed case studies. Presents excellent background on the justice system and its uneven enforcement of the law--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v.57.
Millenarian Vision Capitalist Reality
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Author : Todd A. Diacon
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1991-08-29
Millenarian Vision Capitalist Reality written by Todd A. Diacon and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-08-29 with History categories.
Why did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis. Combining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts a peasant community whose security in economic, social, and religious relations was suddenly disrupted by the intrusion of international capital. Diacon shows how a “deadly triumvirate” comprised to foreign capital, state power, and local bosses engineered a land tenure revolution that threatened smallholders’ subsistence, sparking rebellion among the Contestado peasants. Unlike most analysis of millenarian movements, Diacon combines a material analysis with a careful exploration of the movement’s millenarian ideology to demonstrate how a particular combination of external and internal forces produced a crisis of values in the Contestado society. Such a crisis, Diacon concludes, gave a special power to the millenarian vision that promised not only outward reform, but inner salvation as well. This work offers a significant contribution to the literature of millenarian movements, popular religion, peasant rebellions, and the transition to capitalism in Brazil.
Manganese Deposits Of The Serra Do Navio District Territory Of Amap Brazil
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Author : John Van Nostrand Dorr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Manganese Deposits Of The Serra Do Navio District Territory Of Amap Brazil written by John Van Nostrand Dorr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Manganese ores categories.
Azores
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Author : David Sayers
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2006
Azores written by David Sayers and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Travel categories.
Topics as diverse as the Azorean cow, sport-fishing and and whale- and dolphin- watching provide a flavour of the culture and heritage of these Portuguese islands. A series of walks taking in the mythical lakes of Sete Cidades, rugged volcanic craters and picturesque villages will guide visitors around the best that these tranquil islands offer.
Before The Boom
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Author : Steven Boldy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Before The Boom written by Steven Boldy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.