Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil Pérez Meléndez Hardback 9781009281843

Peopling for Profit in Imperial BrazilDirected Migrations and the Business of Nineteenth-Century Colonization\nAuthor(s): Jos Juan Prez Melndez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009281843, 978-1009281843\nSynopsis\nPeopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immigration of the end of the century, Jos Juan Prez Melndez examines the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and settlement in post-independence Brazil. The book explores Brazil's connections to global colonization drives and migratory movements, unveiling how the Brazilian Empire's engagement with privately run colonization models from overseas crucially informed the domestic sphere. It further reveals that the rise of a for-profit colonization model indelibly shaped Brazilian peopling processes and governa.