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By Marshall C. Eakin (auth.)

Tropical Capitalism lines the increase of Brazil's moment biggest commercial middle, a deliberate urban created within the Nineties because the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's moment so much populous country. Marshall Eakin deals the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an instance of an severe kind of the trend of Brazilian industrialization - a edition of capitalism characterised through nation intervention, clientelism, relatives networks, and the inability of tehcnological innovation. on the middle of the research are the webs of energy shaped via politicians, technocrats, and marketers who drove ahead the method of industrialization. the 1st entire research of Belo Horizonte, this publication explores industrialization in Latin the United States, and appears underneath the bigger, nationwide economic system to dissect a urban and region.

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At the turn of the century, coffee generated more than 90 percent of the value of all Brazilian exports. As late as 1960, 60 percent of the value of all exports still came from coffee. Today, manufactured goods generate more then 75 percent of exports, and coffee less than 10 percent. 29 The burdens of a colonial past have long hindered Brazilian industrialization. 30 The Portuguese first landed on the coast of South America in 1500_31 After several decades of neglect while they concentrated on their lucrative trading empire in Asia and Mrica, the Portuguese gradually implanted settlements on the coast, principally in the northeast.

Scholars have long debated the relationship between "economic" and "political" interests or elites in Brazilian and mineiro politics. Some have tried to demonstrate a correlation between specific elite groups (such as coffee planters) and various political outcomes (such as legislation to protect coffee interests). Others (Martins, for example) have turned this around to emphasize the disassociation between economic interests and politics, arguing that a bureaucratic elite in Minas dominated state politics in the early twentieth century creating a "white-collar republic.

In effect, the modernizing, urban elites struck a deal with the traditional rural elites. The latter retained much of their power in the countryside in exchange for loyalty to the central government and the new "representative" republic. In the long run, the arrangement reinforced and perpetuated the worst features of the old power structure well into this century. Brazilian politicians constructed the facade of representative, democratic politics on the still very powerful structures of patronage, patrimonialism, hierarchy, and elitism.

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