Title: Mining and the state in Brazilian development /
Authors: Triner, Gail D.
Date: 2011
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto,
Physical description: xvii, 253 p., [1] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Abstract: "Mining and the State examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents: The Subsoil in Brazilian History -- Historical Setting -- Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law -- The Struggle to Develop Minerals -- Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil -- The Subsoil as Private Property -- Industrializing Iron Ore -- Understanding Brazilian Institutions and Minerals -- Minerals and the Formation of Economic Ideology -- Iron Ore as Precedent and Example.
Subject headings (LCSH): Brazil--Economic policy.; Economic development--Brazil--History.; Mineral industries--Brazil.; Mineral industries--Economic aspects--Brazil.; Mineral industries--Government policy--Brazil.