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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 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, this book explores industrialization in Latin America, and looks beneath the larger, national economy to dissect a city and region.
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'Tropical Capitalism is an example of the quality scholarship one has come to expect of Marshall Eakin.' - Douglas Cole Libby, Enterprise & Society
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MARSHALL C. EAKIN is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tropical Capitalism
Book Subtitle: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997
Authors: Marshall C. Eakin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08722-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22306-9Published: 27 February 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-62270-2Published: 27 February 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08722-5Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 269
Topics: Development Economics, Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, History, general, Industries, Modern History