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Informationen zum Autor Richard Graham is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil; Independence in Latin America: A Comparative Approach; and several edited books, including The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870–1940 and Machado de Assis: Reflections on the Brazilian Master Writer. Klappentext This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation¿the food trade¿and showing the connections between and among social categories. Zusammenfassung This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation—the food trade—and showing the connections between and among social categories. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of TablesList of IllustrationsA Note on Currency, Measures, and SpellingPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The City on a BayPart I. Getting and Selling Food Chapter 2. From Streets and DoorwaysChapter 3. ConnectionsChapter 4. "People of the Sea"Chapter 5. The Grains MarketChapter 6. The Cattle and Meat TradeChapter 7. ContentionPart II: Changed Rules: Reform and Resistance Chapter 8. "The True Enemy Is Hunger": The Siege of SalvadorChapter 9. A Tremor in the Social OrderChapter 10. Meat, Manioc, and Adam SmithChapter 11. "The People Do Not Live by Theories"ConclusionAppendix A. Purchasing Power over Time in SalvadorAppendix B. Volume of Foodstuff Handled at the Grains Market, 1785-1849 (in Alqueires)NotesSourcesCredits for IllustrationsIndex
