Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century.

Eugene Ridings (Author)

9780521531290, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 March 2004

396 pages, 2 maps
23.6 x 16.1 x 3 cm, 0.707 kg

"This carefully crafted work fills an important gap in the literature." Muriel Nazzari, American Historical Review

This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century. Business interest groups strongly affected the modernization and prosperity of agriculture, the pace of industrialisation, and patterns of communications. Although they sometimes initiated enterprises themselves, they most affected development by influencing the scope and direction of government aid. The most important of business interest groups, the commercial associations, also may be seen as institutions through which ties of dependency to better-developed nations overseas were maintained.

Introduction
1. The genesis of Brazilian business interest groups
2. Leadership and organisation
3. Influence, ideology, and public relations
4. The export economy: agricultural quality, markets, and profits
5. The export economy: banking, credit, and currency
6. The export economy: manpower
7. Taxation
8. Industrialisation
9. Communications: regionalism perpetuated
10. Port areas and harbors: efficiency and rivalry
11. Business interest groups and economic and urban integration
12. Business interest groups and the Republic
13. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], History of the Americas [HBJK]