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Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels - Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Hardcover)
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Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels - Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Hardcover)
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An account of modernization and technological innovation in
nineteenth-century Brazil that provides a distinctly Brazilian
perspective. Existing scholarship on the period describes the
beginnings of Brazilian modernization as a European or North
American import dependent on foreign capital, transfers of
technology, and philosophical inspiration. Promoters of
modernization were considered few in number, derivative in their
thinking, or thwarted by an entrenched slaveholding elite hostile
to industrialization. Teresa Cribelli presents a more nuanced
picture. Nineteenth-century Brazilians selected among the
transnational flow of ideas and technologies with care and
attention to the specific conditions of their tropical nation.
Studying underutilized sources, Cribelli illuminates a distinctly
Brazilian vision of modernization that challenges the view that
Brazil, a nation dependent on slave labor for much of the
nineteenth century, was merely reactive in the face of the
modernization models of the North Atlantic industrializing nations.
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