Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor of Economics at Universidade de São Paulo.
Herbert S. Klein is the Gouveneur Morris Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Research Fellow and Curator at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Their previous volumes with Stanford University Press are Slavery and the Economy of São Paolo, 1750-1850 (2003) and An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950 (2018).