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Order Against Progress : Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 /
How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the "new economic history" to the study of Brazilian railway development. Railroads have long b...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Social Science History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography and Currency Units
- Maps
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Transport in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Chapter 3 Railroad Policy, Finance, and Expansion
- Chapter 4 The Direct Gains from Railroad Freight Services
- Chapter 5 Railroad Passenger Benefits
- Chapter 6 Railroads and Brazilian Economic Structure
- Chapter 7 Dividing the Surplus: Subsidies, Regulation, and Profits
- Chapter 8 Conclusions
- List of Abbreviations
- Appendix A:Theory and Method of the Social Savings Approach
- Appendix B: Financial and Operating Data: Sources and Method
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index