Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997

by Marshall C. Eakin

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349622702

ISBN13:9781349622702

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:269 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

Americas Brazil Business Business & Investing Central America Criminology Development & Growth Economics History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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