Railroads, Coffee, and the Growth of Big Business in São Paulo, Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2829720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert H Mattoon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273 |
| Publication date | 1977-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2513775 |
| OpenAlex | W4256331036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
R AILROADS came to Latin America in the mid-nineteenth century along with other innovations born of the Industrial Revolution. Most railway hardware came from England, and most construction was underwritten by British capital and supervised, at least initially, by British engineers. The majority of lines serviced export trades, and both single traces and more elaborate nets typically projected from port-city matrices into the producing hinterlands. These lines generally met immediate objectives of delivering goods to market but failed to realize the long-range dreams of Latin American promoters who believed the innovation would automatically bequeath to their countries what it presumably had given to Europe and North America, namely territorial integration and flourishing industrial economies. These expectations remained unfulfilled as Latin American railroads were built to expedite exports and not to establish systems of internal communication. And, far from diversifying and industrializing national economies, they tended at first to reinforce and extend agricultural export orientations.' Nonetheless, the innovation had many important consequences. Railroad building was an enterprise of unprecedented economic and technological proportions which perforce required new financial and business strategies and structures. This essay examines the demands
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National Capital and National Development
Coffee Labor Regimes and Deforestation on a Brazilian Frontier, 1915-1965
Slavery and Economic Development
The First Great Railway Strike
Transport costs and economic growth in a backward economy
Testing temporal benchmarks effects on the implementation of the new Brazilian Forest Act
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2021 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |