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

Author/Contributor(s):	Summerhill, William R
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	08/25/2003
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.