 | Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889 Subjects: Goias (Brazil: State) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Agriculture -- Brazil -- Goiás (State) -- History -- 19th century; Goiás (Brazil: State) -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Goiás (Brazil: State) -- History -- 19th century; This book is a study of the development of Brazil's far western frontier during the years of the Empire (1822-1889). David McCreery is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America (2000), Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 (Stanford University Press, 1994), and Development and the State in Reforma Guatemala, 1871-1885 (1983). |
