The Deepest Wounds - A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil - Paperback - 2010

Traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazils key northeastern sugargrowing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, this confronts the daytoday world of farming the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow.

Year of publication: 2010
Pagination: 456 pages, 7 illustrations, 1 table, 1 map, notes, bibliography
Format: Paperback