Publication: Colonial exiles: the Tambora volcanic explosion, environmental history, and Swiss immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821
Colonial exiles: the Tambora volcanic explosion, environmental history, and Swiss immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821
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Clavel, D., & Hecht, S. B. (2024). Colonial exiles: the Tambora volcanic explosion, environmental history, and Swiss immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821. Hispanic American Historical Review, 104(4), 551–586. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11384938
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The 1815 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mount Tambora triggered a subsistence crisis in Europe, especially in Switzerland. This article retraces the founding of Nova Friburgo, a colony in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro composed of several hundred Swiss families, mostly from the rural canton of Fribourg. This study shows how the unusual central European settler migration to the Brazilian tropics was facilitated by a new class of entrepreneurial go-betweens, acting as dynamic mediators between the effects that the climatic catast
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- Hecht, Susanna B.
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Clavel, D., & Hecht, S. B. (2024). Colonial exiles: the Tambora volcanic explosion, environmental history, and Swiss immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821. Hispanic American Historical Review, 104(4), 551–586. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11384938
