The United States and the Luso-Brazilian Empires
Beyond Coffee, Plow, and Bible
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil's mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire's agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions.
The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazil's economy and society.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Prelude: The Luso-Brazilian Agricultural Renaissance and the United States, 1770–1808
- 2 The Court Transfers to Brazil
- 3 Henry Hill, the Would-Be Fazendeiro
- 4 Defining Imperial Brazil's Economic Priorities
- 5 The Commission Merchant Extends the Coffee Trade
- 6 Exploring Brazil's Natural Riches for Science, Profit, and Colonization
- 7 Opening the Doors for Reform, 1850–1860
- 8 The Introduction of U.S. Immigrants, Cultivars, and Equipment
- 9 The Arrival of U.S. Engineers and Science Technicians
- 10 The Coffee Trade Generates Financial Benefits
- 11 The U.S. Missionaries and Brazil's Religious Institution
- 12 The United States and the Empire's Educational Institutions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index