Order Against Progress
Subtitle: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 (Social Science History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780804732246
Subjects: Railroads; Transportation; Latin America - South America; Brazil - History; History - General History; Railroads and state; Railroads - General; Political History; History / South America; 19th century; Brazil; Economic aspects; History
First sentence: Despite its remarkable order, stability, and resources, nineteenth-century Brazil fell badly behind the industrializing countries of the North Atlantic.