Coffee, Contention and Change
Making of Modern Brazil
Published on 18. October 1990
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-55786-042-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to confront traditional theories of economic development which emphasize the role of export elites in directing political and social changes within the nation. Looking specifically at the export (coffee) elites of Sao Paulo, Brazil during the critical period around the 1919 revolution, Font documents important intra-elite conflicts. Font aims to demonstrate how an alternative agrarian economy of small and medium landholders challenged the supposed hegemony of large landholders during this period. He draws from this picture broader implications about export economies and their diverse effects on host countries.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-042-2 (9781557860422)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Planters and independent agriculture; elite mobilization and policy making; coffee and industrialization; a changing polity; from export sector segmentation to power struggle; coffee elites and the revolution of 1930 - an alternative scenario; from contention to revolution - the national scene; demise of an old regime; export agriculture and structural change. Appendices: technical notes on agrarian and structural change; background notes on political change.