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Feeding the City - From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Feeding the City - From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History,
2011 Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011 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 decisively influenced the outcome of the war for
Brazilian independence from Portugal by supplying the insurgents
and not the colonial army. Richard Graham here shows for the first
time that, far from being a city sharply and principally divided
into two groups-the rich and powerful or the hapless poor or
enslaved-Salvador had a population that included a great many who
lived in between and moved up and down. The day-to-day behavior of
those engaged in food marketing leads to questions about the
government's role in regulating the economy and thus to notions of
justice and equity, questions that directly affected both food
traders and the wider consuming public. Their voices significantly
shaped the debate still going on between those who support economic
liberalization and those who resist it.
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