Produção Nacional
Mills for manioc, not for sugar cane Frans Post's manioc mill
2009; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS; Volume: 25; Issue: 41 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1982-4343
Autores Tópico(s)Cuban History and Society
ResumoThe chapter takes a recently launched catalogue with the complete works by Frans Post to argue about the technology for processing sugar and manioc in colonial Brazil. The seventeenth century Dutch painter lived in Brazil from 1637 to 1644, during the Dutch occupation of Pernambuco, and left a rich collection of paintings and sketches most of them representing the Northeastern landscape, in particular sugar mills and non-identified plantations. The paper relies also on contemporary written sources to demonstrate how Post canvas can leads us tointeresting analysis about the production and uses of manioc meal and sugar during the first half of seventeenth century.
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