Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781107496651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 271 str.

Teresa Cribelli

Opis

A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

Recenzje

'Teresa Cribelli's fine monograph Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil examines how elites in imperial Brazil thought about modernization, how it applied to their own society, and how they attempted to adapt European ideas and technologies to Brazil.' Marshall C. Eakin, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

1. Nineteenth-century modernization in Brazil; 2. The vocabulary of Brazilian modernization; 3. Industrial forests; 4. The most useful of instruments: plows and agricultural innovation; 5. Road-building and railroads: challenges to modernization; 6. Trolleys, railroads, and factories, or civilization and barbarism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.