Palm Oil Diaspora - Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia''s Dende Coast

An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

List of contents

1. Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy; 2. African and Atlantic Worlds; 3. Creolization; 4. An Afro-Brazilian landscape; 5. South Atlantic exchange; 6. Landscapes, religions, transitions; 7. Complexity; Epilogue: decolonizing dendê.

About the author

Case Watkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University. He co-authored Hispanic and Latino New Orleans (2015), winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize in 2015.

Product details

• Authors: Case Watkins, Case (James Madison University Watkins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781108746236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74623-6
• No. of pages: 367
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, The environment, Economic history, Science / Environmental Science, History of the Americas