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Order against progress : government, foreign investment, and railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 / William R. Summerhill.
LIBRA HE2928 .S85 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summerhill, William R. (William Roderick)
- Series:
- Social science history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Brazil--History--19th century.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Economic aspects--Brazil.
- Railroads and state--Brazil--History--19th century.
- Railroads and state.
- History.
- Railroads--Economic aspects.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Transport in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Railroad policy, finance, and expansion
- The direct gains from railroad freight services
- Railroad passenger benefits
- Railroads and Brazilian economic structure
- Dividing the surplus : subsidies, regulation, and profits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804732248
- OCLC:
- 51898690
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