Trade and gunboats: the United States and Brazil in the age of empire

"Late-19th-century US commercial policies were chiefly business-driven but met with little success in Brazil because US business leaders were largely ignorant of market conditions there. Brazil, for its part, was disappointed in its hopes for privileged access to the US sugar market. These comm...

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Main Author: Topik, Steven 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 1996
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Late-19th-century US commercial policies were chiefly business-driven but met with little success in Brazil because US business leaders were largely ignorant of market conditions there. Brazil, for its part, was disappointed in its hopes for privileged access to the US sugar market. These commercial and diplomatic relations, even though imperfectly realized, did support development of republican institutions in Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Physical Description:VIII, 301 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0804726027

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