Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil - Directed Migrations Business of Nineteenth Century Colonization

This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today.

List of contents

Introduction; What is Colonization?; Part I. Colonization's Statecraft: 1. Peopling as strategy: appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court; 2. Marching to the homestead: colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence; Part II. Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade: 3. Shareholder oligarchies: the first homegrown companies; 4. Palatial diplomacy: colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal; 5. Brazil's great transformation; Part III. Disentangling Companies and State: 6. Cabinets and companies: testing the limits of the state; 7. The dregs of war: emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil; 8. Coolies and scandals: skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the free womb law; Part IV. Peopling the Country of the Future: 10. At the doorstep of mass migrations; Conclusion: the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

José Juan Pérez Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in nineteenth-century Brazil and world history. He serves as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. This is his first book.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Juan (University of Californi Perez Melendez, José Juan Pérez Meléndez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009281850
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928185-0
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas