Ebook for digital electronics free download Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 (English Edition) 9780292779068 Richard Graham PDB

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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 subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic ...