"This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil's mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire's agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions. The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazil's economy and society. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally"--
This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazils mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empires agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions.
The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazils economy and society.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally.
This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazils mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empires agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions.
Introduction
1. The Prelude: The Luso-Brazilian Agricultural Renaissance
and the United States, 17701808
2. The Court Transfers to Brazil
3. Henry
Hill, the Would-be Fazendeiro
4. Defining Imperial Brazils Economic
Priorities
5. The Commission Merchant Extends the Coffee Trade
6. Exploring
Brazils Natural Riches for Science, Profit, and Colonization
7. Opening the
Doors for Reform, 18501860
8. The Introduction of U.S. Immigrants,
Cultivars, and Equipment
9. The Arrival of U.S. Engineers and Science
Technicians
10. The Coffee Trade Generates Financial Benefits
11. The U.S.
Missionaries and Brazils Religious Institution
12. The United States and the
Empires Educational Institutions. Conclusion
Earl Richard Downes (19472024) was an Independent Researcher whose previous affiliations included Associate Dean at William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; Senior Research Associate, North-South Center, University of Miami; Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Florida International University; and Associate Professor of History, USAF Academy.
Rafael R. Ioris is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Denver. He has published books, articles and book chapters on various dimensions of Brazils economic, political, intellectual, and diplomatic histories, and on the role played by US actors in the course of Brazils and Latin Americas development.
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