A Merchant Adventurer in Brazil 1808-1818
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4997724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert Heaton (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1946 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 1946-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700062094 |
| OpenAlex | W1904761250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
At thirty-seven John Luccock was looking forward with quiet assurance to a gentle transition into the comfortable middle age of a sedentary merchant. Napoleon and Jefferson spoiled his view, and before he was thirty-eight he had gone rolling down to Rio. There for ten years he imported and exported; watched a sleepy colonial outpost transform itself painfully into an imperial capital city; rambled, notebook in hand, around the almost trackless interior of Brazil, studying the remnants of an aboriginal culture and the way of life of those who had come to conquer. At forty-eight he returned home, leaving his health and middle age behind him. At fifty-six he died
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2020 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |