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

Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
ISBN-10
0804732248
ISBN-13
9780804732246
Category
History
Pages
297
Language
English
Published
2003
Author
William Roderick Summerhill

Description

This study presents a new and provocative picture of the impact of railroads on the Brazilian economy. 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.

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