Autorentext
José Juan Pérez Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in nineteenth-century Brazil and world history. He serves as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. This is his first book.

Zusammenfassung
This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today.

Inhalt

Introduction; What is Colonization?; Part I. Colonization's Statecraft: 1. Peopling as strategy: appeasement and preemption in the Joanine court; 2. Marching to the homestead: colonization in the crosshairs of the long post-independence; Part II. Colonization Companies and the Colono Trade: 3. Shareholder oligarchies: the first homegrown companies; 4. Palatial diplomacy: colonization at the hand of the emperor's cabal; 5. Brazil's great transformation; Part III. Disentangling Companies and State: 6. Cabinets and companies: testing the limits of the state; 7. The dregs of war: emigrant sweeps at a time of global turmoil; 8. Coolies and scandals: skullduggery, bankruptcy, and the coolie question after the free womb law; Part IV. Peopling the Country of the Future: 10. At the doorstep of mass migrations; Conclusion: the afterlives of a nineteenth-century paradigm; Bibliography; Index.