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Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913

Summerhill, William R., III

Hardcover

Series: Social Science History

TrainsGeneral Political ScienceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0804732248
ISBN13: 9780804732246
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Aug 25 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the new economic history to the study of Brazilian railway development.

Railroads have long been viewed as having intensified Brazil's dependence on foreign product and capital markets in the second half of the nineteenth century. Because steam locomotion in Brazil relied heavily on British finance in an age of export-led economic growth, many scholars have viewed railroads as magnifying economic dependency in ways that benefited foreign investors and export agriculture at the expense of the Brazilian economy as a whole.

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