To Be A Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888 - Hardcover

Mattoso, Katia M De Queiros

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813511542 ISBN 13: 9780813511542

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1986

Synopsis

The book has the great advantage of placing the slave in the center of the history not simply as a type of labor, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system... written with verve and grace for a general readership.

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About the Author:

Kátia de Queirós Mattoso

Katia Mytilineou de Queirós Mattoso (born Kyriacoula Katia Demetre Mytilineou ; Volos , 8 of April of 1931 - Paris , 11 of January of 2011 [ 1 ] ) was a historian Greek-Brazilian. [ 2 ] a specialist in Bahia's economic and social history (1750-1889) and in the social history of slavery in Brazil (1549-1888).

Katia Mattoso was a professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Bahia Federal (1963-1988), visiting professor at the Universities of Minnesota (1978), Paris IV (1982) and Columbia (1983). He was also visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge ( UK ). In 1988, he took the chair of History of Brazil at the University Paris IV - Sorbonne, of which he was the first holder. Teacher emeritus . [ 2 ] of the same University, he is the author of several books, among which are: Bahia: the city of Salvador and its market in the nineteenth century (São Paulo: Hucitec, 1978), Être esclave au Brésil, XVIe-XIXe siècles (Paris : Hachette, 1979; Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995), with editions in Portuguese ( Being a slave in Brazil São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982; 3.ed. 1990) and English (. to be a slave in Brazil New Brunswick. , NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986; 7.ed. 2002), Family and society in nineteenth-century Bahia (São Paulo: Corrupio, 1988) and Bahia, nineteenth century. A province in the Empire (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1992, 2.ed. 1994).

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0813511542
• ISBN 13: 9780813511542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272