Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels

Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781316720691
ISBN-13 : 1316720691
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Book Synopsis Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels by : Teresa Cribelli

Download or read book Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels written by Teresa Cribelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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