Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997

by Marshall C. Eakin

Book Overview

Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349622702
• ISBN13: 9781349622702
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"