Books by Stanley J. Stein

Presents a social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. This book shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

Silver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states.

An in-depth study of incremental response by an old imperial order to challenges at home and abroad, Apogee of Empire is a sweeping account of the personalities, places, and policies that helped to shape the modern Atlantic world.