Chapter 8. “The True Enemy Is Hunger”: The Siege of Salvador

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables ix
4. List of Maps and Illustrations x
5. A Note on Currency, Measures, and Spelling xi
6. Preface xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1. The City on a Bay 9
9. Part I. Getting and Selling Food
10. Chapter 2. From Streets and Doorways 33
11. Chapter 3. Connections 54
12. Chapter 4. “People of the Sea” 74
13. Chapter 5. The Grains Market 92
14. Chapter 6. The Cattle and Meat Trade 107
15. Chapter 7. Contention 121
16. Part II changed rules: reform and resistance
17. Chapter 8. “The True Enemy Is Hunger”: The Siege of Salvador 137
18. Chapter 9. A Tremor in the Social Order 156
19. Chapter 10. Meat, Manioc, and Adam Smith 172
20. Chapter 11. “The People Do Not Live by Theories” 191
21. Conclusion 209
22. Appendix A. Purchasing Power over Time in Salvador 213
23. Appendix B. Volume of Foodstuff Handled at the Grains Market, 1785– 1849 (in alqueires) 221
24. Notes 225
25. Sources 295
26. Credits for Maps and Illustrations 317
27. Index 319