Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780521454858 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 396 str.

Eugene Ridings; Alan Knight

Opis

This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century. Business interest groups strongly affected the modernization and prosperity of agriculture, the pace of industrialization, and patterns of communications. The commercial associations, the most important of business interest groups, also may be seen as institutions through which ties of dependency to better-developed nations overseas were maintained.

Recenzje

"This carefully crafted work fills an important gap in the literature." Muriel Nazzari, American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The genesis of Brazilian business interest groups; 2. Leadership and organisation; 3. Influence, ideology, and public relations; 4. The export economy: agricultural quality, markets, and profits; 5. The export economy: banking, credit, and currency; 6. The export economy: manpower; 7. Taxation; 8. Industrialisation; 9. Communications: regionalism perpetuated; 10. Port areas and harbors: efficiency and rivalry; 11. Business interest groups and economic and urban integration; 12. Business interest groups and the Republic; 13. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.