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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. Drawing on social and environmental history, he connects the Amazonians intimately to their natural landscapes. Relying on the natural world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
After the reign of terror : slavery and the economy of post-Cabanagem Pará, 1835-c.1870 -- Killing the big snake : myth and history in the Trombetas River, 1800-1888 -- I do not buy my freedom because I am not a fool : environmental creolization and the erection of communities in the senzalas, 1850-1888 -- Working almost as slaves : the post-abolition Brazil nut trade, 1888-1930 -- Citizens of Tauapará : landscape, law, and citizenship in the senzalas, 1862-c.1944 -- The people of the Curuá River : black rural protest and the Vargas era in Amazonia, 1921-1945. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Black people -- Brazil -- History.
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Black people. |
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Brazil. |
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History. |
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Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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Black people -- Brazil -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Peasants -- Brazil -- History.
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Peasants. |
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Slavery -- Brazil -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Amazon River Region -- History.
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Amazon River Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: De la Torre, Oscar (Historian). People of the river. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469643236 (DLC) 2018008637 (OCoLC)1028583693 |
| ISBN |
9781469643250 (electronic book) |
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1469643251 (electronic book) |
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9781469643267 (electronic book) |
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146964326X (electronic book) |
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9781469643236 |
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1469643235 |
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9781469643243 |
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1469643243 |
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