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

by Richard Graham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722990
• ISBN13: 9780292722996
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 352 Pages