Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire

by Steven C. Topik

Book Overview

A hundred years ago, the United States first projected itself onto the international stage, hoping to stake out a sphere of influence in Latin America just as the largest of Latin American countries, Brazil, ending a 67-year-long monarchical regime, struggled to redefine its relationship to the world economy. Debates raged between liberals and corporatists, between free traders and protectionists. When the trajectories of these two unequal giants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804740186
• ISBN13: 9780804740180
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"