Laird W Bergad
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 547704 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laird W Bergad |
| NOMBRES | Laird W |
| APELLIDO | Bergad |
| FIRMA | BERGAD L W |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Agrarian Puerto Rico
Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearance of the small farmer. Contrary to well-established narratives, quantitative data show that the increasing integration of rural producers within the US market led to differential outcomes, depending on pre-existing land tenure structures, capital requirements to initiate production, and demographics. …
Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to Abolition
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico by David M. Stark
This is an important book for Puerto Rican and Caribbean history as well as for comparative slave studies in the Americas. It is the first thorough examination of a period in the socioeconomic history of Puerto Rico that, if not entirely neglected, has been murky at best for lack of systematic exploration of primary-source documentation. Additionally, there have been overarching generalizations about a supposedly isolated and subsistence-oriented…
Hispanics in the United States
In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050. Utilizing census data and other statistical source materials, this book examines the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic structures of Latino-Americans in the United States betwee…
American Slave Markets During the 1850s
For well over fifty years, historians studying slavery in the Western Hemisphere have been drawn to comparative aspects of slave systems in the Americas. The publication of Frank Tannenbaum's Slave and Citizen in 1947 established the broad parameters of consideration by dividing slavery into two fundamentally different systems. Slavery in the United States and in another entity referred to uniformly as Latin America was deemed to be not one but t…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
Rural Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century Reconsidered
The U.S. occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898 radically altered patterns of social and economic development. Examination of census and archival data on land tenure reveals that contrary to generally accepted conclusions, land tenure did not become more concentrated in fewer hands in the years from 1898 to 1915. Instead, and despite massive agro-industrial investments by U.S. sugar corporations, more small farmers owned land in 1915 than at the end o…
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rura…
Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888
This 2000 book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It utilizes the largest database ever assembled on a slave population in the Americas to reconstruct and analyse the unique history of slave labour in Minas Gerais. This slave population was remarkable in its…
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
After the Mining Boom
Slavery in the interior state of Minas Gerais has been a focal point of the voluminous historiography appearing on Brazilian slavery in the past twenty years. During the mineral boom of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Minas was the key region of the colonial Brazilian economy and the largest slaveholding capitania. The older literature on Brazilian history recognized the centrality of slave labor to the eighteenth-century min…
Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society
Journal Article Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society: The Population of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776–1821 Get access Laird W. Bergad Laird W. Bergad Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, The Graduate and University Center, City University of New York, Bronx, NY 10468 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages …
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790–1880
Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slav…
Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century
Slavery and its Legacies
Although Africans and their descendants have been at the center of the Atlantic worlds modern history, only since World War II have studies on slavery and the slave trade played a prominent role in the historiography of the former slaveholding and slave-trading nations and colonies. This trend has coincided with the global process of political decolonization and the parallel academic concern with exploring the causes and consequences of the socia…
The Economic Viability of Sugar Production Based on Slave Labor in Cuba, 1859-1878
During the two decades preceding the abolition law of 1880, Cuban sugar planters pursued two parallel goals. The first undertaking was a concerted effort to increase the efficiency of agricultural and industrial production. A sophisticated railroad network was constructed to the interior from the ports of Havana, Matanzas, Cárdenas, and Cienfuegos in the 1840s and 1850s. Railroads opened high-yielding virgin land in frontier regions to production…
Slave Prices in Cuba, 1840-1875
HE transition from slavery to free labor in the Hispanic Caribbean has recently become a topic of considerable scholarly interest.' Although the close linkages between slavery and Caribbean sugar production have long been recognized, after 1850 slave labor and sugar remained inexorably bound only in Cuba.2 The Cuban sugar economy's persistent dependency on slaves through the eve of emancipation has generated two multifaceted questions concerning …
Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
On Comparative History
In his comment on my article ‘Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840–1898’ ( Journal of Latin American Studies , XV, no. 1, May 1983, pp. 83–100), Tom Brass is to be lauded for the comparative observations used to contest my conclusions on proletarianization in the coffee-producing regions of 19th-century Puerto Rico. By examining some of the literature on coffee expansion in Brazill and Colombia, and comparing these cases with …
Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840-1898
The development of a labor force has become an important focus of recent historical research on 19th-century Puerto Rico. One center of investigation has been slavery and its linkages to sugar culture.1 Until recently historians had consistently stressed the relative insignificance of slave labor in Puerto Rico.2 However, by focusing at the municipal, or even hacienda level, scholars have begun to generate a more analytical view of 19th-century P…
Libertad y servidumbre en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX
Toward Puerto Rico's Grito de Lares
HE Grito de Lares has become a fixture in all historical surveys of nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. On two dramatic days in September 1868, a small group of coffee planters, day laborers, and slaves seized the western mountain town of Lares, declared a republic for the only time in Puerto Rico's history, and then were routed by Spanish counterattacks before the revolt could spread to other areas of the island. The chronology of events is wellknow…
On Comparative History
In his comment on my article ‘Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840–1898’ ( Journal of Latin American Studies , XV, no. 1, May 1983, pp. 83–100), Tom Brass is to be lauded for the comparative observations used to contest my conclusions on proletarianization in the coffee-producing regions of 19th-century Puerto Rico. By examining some of the literature on coffee expansion in Brazill and Colombia, and comparing these cases with …
Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840-1898
The development of a labor force has become an important focus of recent historical research on 19th-century Puerto Rico. One center of investigation has been slavery and its linkages to sugar culture.1 Until recently historians had consistently stressed the relative insignificance of slave labor in Puerto Rico.2 However, by focusing at the municipal, or even hacienda level, scholars have begun to generate a more analytical view of 19th-century P…
Agrarian History of Puerto Rico, 1870-1930
The broad nature of the task of summarizing the state of our knowledge of the agrarian history of Puerto Rico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is counterbalanced by the scarcity of literature on the topic. In many cases it has resulted in generalizations and over simplifications that cannot be avoided at this time. This survey is restricted to the commercial agricultural activities-sugar, coffee, and tobacco-since these indust…
Slave Prices in Cuba, 1840-1875
HE transition from slavery to free labor in the Hispanic Caribbean has recently become a topic of considerable scholarly interest.' Although the close linkages between slavery and Caribbean sugar production have long been recognized, after 1850 slave labor and sugar remained inexorably bound only in Cuba.2 The Cuban sugar economy's persistent dependency on slaves through the eve of emancipation has generated two multifaceted questions concerning …
Toward Puerto Rico's Grito de Lares
HE Grito de Lares has become a fixture in all historical surveys of nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. On two dramatic days in September 1868, a small group of coffee planters, day laborers, and slaves seized the western mountain town of Lares, declared a republic for the only time in Puerto Rico's history, and then were routed by Spanish counterattacks before the revolt could spread to other areas of the island. The chronology of events is wellknow…
Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society
Journal Article Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society: The Population of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776–1821 Get access Laird W. Bergad Laird W. Bergad Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, The Graduate and University Center, City University of New York, Bronx, NY 10468 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages …
The Economic Viability of Sugar Production Based on Slave Labor in Cuba, 1859-1878
During the two decades preceding the abolition law of 1880, Cuban sugar planters pursued two parallel goals. The first undertaking was a concerted effort to increase the efficiency of agricultural and industrial production. A sophisticated railroad network was constructed to the interior from the ports of Havana, Matanzas, Cárdenas, and Cienfuegos in the 1840s and 1850s. Railroads opened high-yielding virgin land in frontier regions to production…
Agrarian History of Puerto Rico, 1870-1930
The broad nature of the task of summarizing the state of our knowledge of the agrarian history of Puerto Rico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is counterbalanced by the scarcity of literature on the topic. In many cases it has resulted in generalizations and over simplifications that cannot be avoided at this time. This survey is restricted to the commercial agricultural activities-sugar, coffee, and tobacco-since these indust…
Toward Puerto Rico's Grito de Lares
HE Grito de Lares has become a fixture in all historical surveys of nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. On two dramatic days in September 1868, a small group of coffee planters, day laborers, and slaves seized the western mountain town of Lares, declared a republic for the only time in Puerto Rico's history, and then were routed by Spanish counterattacks before the revolt could spread to other areas of the island. The chronology of events is wellknow…
Libertad y servidumbre en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX
Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840-1898
The development of a labor force has become an important focus of recent historical research on 19th-century Puerto Rico. One center of investigation has been slavery and its linkages to sugar culture.1 Until recently historians had consistently stressed the relative insignificance of slave labor in Puerto Rico.2 However, by focusing at the municipal, or even hacienda level, scholars have begun to generate a more analytical view of 19th-century P…
On Comparative History
In his comment on my article ‘Coffee and Rural Proletarianization in Puerto Rico, 1840–1898’ ( Journal of Latin American Studies , XV, no. 1, May 1983, pp. 83–100), Tom Brass is to be lauded for the comparative observations used to contest my conclusions on proletarianization in the coffee-producing regions of 19th-century Puerto Rico. By examining some of the literature on coffee expansion in Brazill and Colombia, and comparing these cases with …
Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Slave Prices in Cuba, 1840-1875
HE transition from slavery to free labor in the Hispanic Caribbean has recently become a topic of considerable scholarly interest.' Although the close linkages between slavery and Caribbean sugar production have long been recognized, after 1850 slave labor and sugar remained inexorably bound only in Cuba.2 The Cuban sugar economy's persistent dependency on slaves through the eve of emancipation has generated two multifaceted questions concerning …
The Economic Viability of Sugar Production Based on Slave Labor in Cuba, 1859-1878
During the two decades preceding the abolition law of 1880, Cuban sugar planters pursued two parallel goals. The first undertaking was a concerted effort to increase the efficiency of agricultural and industrial production. A sophisticated railroad network was constructed to the interior from the ports of Havana, Matanzas, Cárdenas, and Cienfuegos in the 1840s and 1850s. Railroads opened high-yielding virgin land in frontier regions to production…
Slavery and its Legacies
Although Africans and their descendants have been at the center of the Atlantic worlds modern history, only since World War II have studies on slavery and the slave trade played a prominent role in the historiography of the former slaveholding and slave-trading nations and colonies. This trend has coincided with the global process of political decolonization and the parallel academic concern with exploring the causes and consequences of the socia…
Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790–1880
Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slav…
After the Mining Boom
Slavery in the interior state of Minas Gerais has been a focal point of the voluminous historiography appearing on Brazilian slavery in the past twenty years. During the mineral boom of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Minas was the key region of the colonial Brazilian economy and the largest slaveholding capitania. The older literature on Brazilian history recognized the centrality of slave labor to the eighteenth-century min…
Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society
Journal Article Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society: The Population of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776–1821 Get access Laird W. Bergad Laird W. Bergad Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, The Graduate and University Center, City University of New York, Bronx, NY 10468 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages …
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880
Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888
This 2000 book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It utilizes the largest database ever assembled on a slave population in the Americas to reconstruct and analyse the unique history of slave labour in Minas Gerais. This slave population was remarkable in its…
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rura…
Rural Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century Reconsidered
The U.S. occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898 radically altered patterns of social and economic development. Examination of census and archival data on land tenure reveals that contrary to generally accepted conclusions, land tenure did not become more concentrated in fewer hands in the years from 1898 to 1915. Instead, and despite massive agro-industrial investments by U.S. sugar corporations, more small farmers owned land in 1915 than at the end o…
American Slave Markets During the 1850s
For well over fifty years, historians studying slavery in the Western Hemisphere have been drawn to comparative aspects of slave systems in the Americas. The publication of Frank Tannenbaum's Slave and Citizen in 1947 established the broad parameters of consideration by dividing slavery into two fundamentally different systems. Slavery in the United States and in another entity referred to uniformly as Latin America was deemed to be not one but t…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
Hispanics in the United States
In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050. Utilizing census data and other statistical source materials, this book examines the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic structures of Latino-Americans in the United States betwee…
Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico by David M. Stark
This is an important book for Puerto Rican and Caribbean history as well as for comparative slave studies in the Americas. It is the first thorough examination of a period in the socioeconomic history of Puerto Rico that, if not entirely neglected, has been murky at best for lack of systematic exploration of primary-source documentation. Additionally, there have been overarching generalizations about a supposedly isolated and subsistence-oriented…
Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to Abolition
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…
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