The Trade in the Living - The Formation of Brazil in South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

About the author

Luiz Felipe de Alencastro is Professor of Economic History at the Sao Paulo School of Economics, Director of the Center for South Atlantic Studies, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

Product details

• Authors: Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781438469294
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6929-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Suny Series, Fernand Braudel C; Suny Series, Fernand Braudel C; SUNY Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery