Feeding the City From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860

Name: Feeding the City From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860
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ISBN: 9780292723269

ISBN-10: 0292723261

ISBN-13: 9780292723269

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard Graham

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On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders-black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese and African-were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 5.434
Language: English

Richard Graham is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.



List of Tables


List of Maps and Illustrations


A Note on Currency, Measures, and Spelling


Preface


Introduction



The City on a Bay



Getting and Selling Food



From Streets and Doorways



Connections



"People of the Sea"



The Grains Market



The Cattle and Meat Trade



Contention



Changed Rules: Reform and Resistance



"The True Enemy Is Hunger": The Siege of Salvador



A Tremor in the Social Order



Meat, Manioc, and Adam Smith



"The People Do Not Live by Theories"


Conclusion



Purchasing Power over Time in Salvador



Volume of Foodstuff Handled at the Grains Market, 1785-1849 (in alqueires)


Notes


Sources


Credits for Maps and Illustrations


Index