Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913

by William Summerhill and William R. Summerhill

Book Overview

This study presents a new and provocative picture of the impact of railroads on the Brazilian economy. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732248
• ISBN13: 9780804732246
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"