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Viscount Maua and the Empire of Brazil
A Biography of Irineu Evangelista De Sousa (1813-1889)
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Viscount Maua and the Empire of Brazil
A Biography of Irineu Evangelista De Sousa (1813-1889)
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University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520363731
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1eBook ISBN
9780520320079
Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: WHO WAS MAUÁ?
- PART ONE: THE MERCHANT
- CHAPTER I. LUSITANIA TRANSPLANTED
- CHAPTER II. YOUNG AMBITION'S LADDER
- CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISH MERCHANT
- CHAPTER IV. SENHOR IRINEU
- PART TWO: THE FRUITS OF INDUSTRY
- CHAPTER V. THE INDUSTRIALIST
- CHAPTER VI. BARON MAUÁ OF THE RAILROADS
- CHAPTER VII. THE MAN OF AFFAIRS
- CHAPTER VIII. OPENING UP THE AMAZON
- CHAPTER IX. THE BANKER
- PART THREE: MAUÁ AND THE RIVER PLATE
- CHAPTER X. FOUNDING AN EMPIRE
- CHAPTER XI. THE GAMBLER
- CHAPTER XIII. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
- PART FOUR: "FATE DID NOT WILL IT SO"
- CHAPTER XIV. FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
- CHAPTER XV. THE CRASH
- CHAPTER XVI. MAUÁ EXPLAINS TO HIS CREDITORS
- CHAPTER XVII. PICKING UP THE PIECES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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