Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil [Paperback]

This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century.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.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.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 industrialization, and patterns of communications. The commercial associations, the most important of business interest groups, 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. ...an important contribution to the literature on Brazilian economic history. It goes a long way toward the development of a literature onl,