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Annotation 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.

Table of Contents:

• The city on a bay
• From streets and doorways
• Connections
• "People of the sea"
• The grains market
• The cattle and meat trade
• Contention
• "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."

Author/Creator:

Graham, Richard, 1934-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Feeding the city: from street market to liberal reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 [by Graham, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Feeding the city [by Graham, R.] (1st ed.; Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010 — ISBN 9780292722996; LCCN 2010007680; OCLC Number 562766718)

Related Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Subjects:

Produce trade — Brazil — Salvador — History

Food supply — Government policy — Brazil — Salvador

Salvador (Brazil) — Government policy

Salvador (Brazil) — Social conditions

Produce trade

Food supply — Government policy

Food supply

Government policy

Social conditions

Brazil — Salvador

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-316) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD9014.B72 G73 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780292784680 (electronic bk.)
0292784686 (electronic bk.)
0292722990
9780292722996
0292723261
9780292723269
9780292722996 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780292723269 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010007680

OCLC Numbers:

700452757