Scicast

Brazil: General Government and the Sugar Cycle (SciCast #438) (2021x27)

Air date: Jul 02, 2021

Back to the History of Brazil! We landed in these lands in October 2020, with the cast about the "Discovery of Brazil" (Scicast #396) and now we're going to go even deeper into the territory by analyzing our first agricultural product: sugar monoculture. What happened after the relative failure of the hereditary captaincies, the constant harassment from colonizers from lands other than Portugal who were eyeing the territory and the exhaustion of brazilwood? Let's discuss the period that became known as the "Sugar Cycle", which was also marked by the establishment of general governments and the Dutch invasion! Let's go? Help yourself to some rapadura and sugarcane juice and come with us!