From slash and burn to winemaking: the historical trajectory of Italiancolonosin the uplands of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

This contribution discusses the early years of Italian immigration in the uplands of southern Brazil, known as the Serra Gaucha (1875–1915). Tracing back early agrarian practices and deforestation techniques of the early settlement years, we investigate the consolidation of this human group in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition, analysing the development of both wood logging and winemaking industries in the region, the essay frames the identitarian construction of this social group, looking at the intersection between cultural traditions from the homeland, socioeconomic drives and local environmental factors. This analysis builds upon primary sources from both Brazilian and Italian institutions, local newspapers, and scholarly publications on environmental history, as well as Brazilian and Italian migration history.

Historia y caracterización fisicoquímica de la uva Isabella (Vitis labrusca x Vitis vinifera) y el vino de la costa de Berisso

“…Gaúcha, en el noreste de Río Grande do Sul, (Majo & Moretto, 2021). A las pocas décadas de su introducción, el vino de Isabella pasó a ser conocido oficialmente como "vinho de colônia" (De Majo & Relly, 2020).…”