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Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997
Marshall C. Eakin
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Description for Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997
paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFC; KCM; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, ... Read more
Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349622702
SKU
V9781349622702
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About Marshall C. Eakin
MARSHALL C. EAKIN is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Reviews for Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997
'Tropical Capitalism is an example of the quality scholarship one has come to expect of Marshall Eakin.' - Douglas Cole Libby, Enterprise & Society '...good scholarship that addresses useful questions...' - EH.Net