Take The Deepest Wounds: A Labor And Environmental History Of Sugar In Northeast Brazil Originated By Thomas D. Rogers Expressed As E-Text

book gives a good, historically informed history of the landscapes of Pernambuco through the lenses of the sugar plantation owners, workers and the environmental changes.
While section on preemancipation is brief, the section on the earlyth century through modern landscapes is excellent, giving a good historical analysis of the feelings both owners and laborers had about the landscapes and describing the events that changed them, such as thestrike, from an intensely local perspective.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in industrialization of sugar production in the area, historical landscape studies and generally agricultural labor relations and the environment.
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D, Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugargrowing state.
Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery into the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the daytoday world of farmingthe complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.


Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, "Monoculture, slavery, and latifundiabut principally monoculturethey opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the deepest wounds.
" Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells

the story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy.
This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human damage.


Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today.
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