Trade and Gunboats
Subtitle: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780804740180
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; International relations; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; U.S. - Latin America Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Brazil; USA; International Relations - General; Latin America - South America; Political Science / International Relations
First sentence: The Gilded Age conjures up images of robber barons lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills, farmers plowing the Great American Desert into a wheat basket, miners striking pay dirt, and factories belching black, prosperous smoke across a countryside closely knit together by rail and canal.