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  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Brazil

    An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil. Beginning with the original human settlements in pre-Colombian society, it moves on to discuss the Portuguese Empire and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Modern Brazil

    A Social History

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Brazilian Crops in the Global Market

    The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Economic History
    This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer.The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Social Science History
    In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Bolivia is an unusually high-altitude country created by imperial conquest and native adaptions – today, it remains one of the most multi-ethnic societies in the world with one of the largest Amerindian populations in the Americas. It has seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations in any country in Latin America. This work, having also appeared in Spanish, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Population History of the United States

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    The first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States has been fully updated here. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyses the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. From the origin and distribution of the Native Americans to late twentieth century changes ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Brazil, 1964-1985

    The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Series series The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
    An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Social Science History
    São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, once a frontier province of little importance, become one of the most vital agricultural and industrial regions of the world?This volume explores the transformation of São Paulo through an economic ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Feeding the World

    Brazil's Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Feeding the World chronicles the rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century. Tracing the history of Brazilian agricultural development, Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna focus specifically on how Brazil came to be the largest net food exporter in the world. Brazil was always an agricultural export country, but it was traditionally an ... Read more

    $38.59 USD