Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels

Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

AvTeresa Cribelli

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-01
Mått:153 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107496651

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Teresa Cribelli holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from The Johns Hopkins University. She has published articles and book chapters in the US, Brazil, and the UK. She has also curated an exhibition on the Brazilian Black Movement at the University of Alabama and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. She is a past recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Spencer Baird Fellowship at the Dibner Library of Science and Technology, a Smithsonian Institution Library, in Washington, DC. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama and Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

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'Teresa Cribelli's Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil offers a rich counter to histories that take the Brazilian Empire as a derivative case. The book stands against several commonplace assumptions in the field: that modernizing ideas in Brazil were late to come; were of external, notably British, provenance; and remained uncomfortably 'out of place' amid the trappings of a slave society … Cribelli succeeds in illustrating how Brazilian society was abuzz with polemics and plans related to improvement … In closing, the book presents a roadmap for future research that will be of special use to graduate students initiating work on Brazilian history. More importantly, this work is a welcome addition to courses on Brazil in the United States, where students may now be introduced to the Brazilian Empire not as a backward slave society but as a hotbed of technological ingenuity.' José Juan Pérez Meléndez, H-LatAm

Innehållsförteckning

1. Nineteenth-century modernization in Brazil; 2. The vocabulary of Brazilian modernization; 3. Industrial forests; 4. The most useful of instruments: plows and agricultural innovation; 5. Road-building and railroads: challenges to modernization; 6. Trolleys, railroads, and factories, or civilization and barbarism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.