Brazil's Revolution in Commerce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brazil's Revolution in Commerce write by James P. Woodard. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Brazil's Revolution in Commerce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a new economic outlook took hold over the course of the twentieth century, a time when the United States became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens. In a cultural entangling with the United States, Brazilians saw Chevrolets and Fords replace horse-drawn carriages, railroads lose to a mania for cheap automobile roads, and the fabric of everyday existence rewoven as commerce reached into the deepest spheres of family life. The United States loomed large in this economic transformation, but American consumer culture was not merely imposed on Brazilians. By the seventies, many elements once thought of as American had slipped their exotic traces and become Brazilian, and this process illuminates how the culture of consumer capitalism became a more genuinely transnational and globalized phenomenon. This commercial and cultural turn is the great untold story of Brazil's twentieth century, and one key to its twenty-first.
Brazil's Revolution in Commerce
Brazil's Revolution in Commerce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brazil's Revolution in Commerce write by James P. Woodard. This book was released on 2020. Brazil's Revolution in Commerce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "James P. Woodard's history of capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a modernizing consumer culture and a new economic outlook took hold over the course of the twentieth century, a time when the United States became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens"--
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots write by Tyson Reeder. This book was released on 2019-06-14. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a Brazilian republic that they assumed would give them commercial preference, they aimed to aid Brazilian independence through contraband, plunder, and revolution. In contrast to the British Empire's reaction to the American Revolution, Lisbon officials liberalized imperial trade when revolutionary fervor threatened the Portuguese Empire in the 1780s and 1790s. In 1808, to save the empire from Napoleon's army, the Portuguese court relocated to Rio de Janeiro and opened Brazilian ports to foreign commerce. By 1822, the year Brazil declared independence, it had become the undisputed center of U.S. trade with the Portuguese Empire. However, by that point, Brazilians tended to associate freer trade with the consolidation of monarchical power and imperial strength, and, by the end of the 1820s, it was clear that Brazilians would retain a monarchy despite their independence. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult. It reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational exchanges between the United States and Brazil as merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates sought to trade outside legal confines. Tyson Reeder argues that although U.S. traders had forged their commerce with Brazil convinced that they could secure republican trade partners there, they were instead forced to reconcile their vision of the Americas as a haven for republics with the reality of a monarchy residing in the hemisphere. He shows that as twilight fell on the Age of Revolution, Brazil and the United States became fellow slave powers rather than fellow republics.
Commerce and Liberation
Commerce and Liberation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commerce and Liberation write by Tyson Reeder. This book was released on 2016. Commerce and Liberation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Commerce and Liberation: Early America, Brazil, and Luso-Atlantic Trade in the Age of Revolution" contends that arguments linking free trade with republican independence led mid-Atlantic merchants to alter their Luso-Atlantic commercial networks to favor revolutionary regions of Brazil. During the first half of the eighteenth century, due to a series of treaties between London and Lisbon, British Americans constructed close business ties with merchants in Portugal and the Portuguese-Atlantic islands. Throughout the century, they also kept an eye toward the prohibited markets of Brazil. The American Revolution severed the mercantilist ties that had traditionally bound North Americans to Portugal, attenuating the relationship between the Portuguese Empire and the United States. As the age of revolution unfolded, many mid-Atlantic traders felt a keen interest in the developing political economies of restive areas of Brazil such as the Banda Oriental, Pernambuco, and ultimately Rio de Janeiro. By the time Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, it had become the most important entity for mid-Atlantic trade networks in the Luso-Atlantic. Current scholarship on Anglo-American merchants emphasizes their cautious approach to new ventures. This dissertation reveals, however, that traders with ties to the Luso-Atlantic embraced the revolutionary environment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A study of those merchants sheds light on how private commercial expansion weakened imperial powers. Paradoxically, state policies countenanced the development of decentralized commercial networks which eventually undermined state authority.
Revolutionary Commerce
Revolutionary Commerce - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revolutionary Commerce write by Paul Cheney. This book was released on 2010-03-16. Revolutionary Commerce available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu became a towering authority among reformist economic and political thinkers by developing a politics of fusion intended to reconcile France's aristocratic society and monarchical state with the needs and risks of international commerce. The Seven Years' War proved the weakness of this model, and after this watershed reforms that could guarantee shared prosperity at home and in the colonies remained elusive. Once the Revolution broke out in 1789, the contradictions that attended the growth of France's Atlantic economy helped to bring down the constitutional monarchy. Drawing upon the writings of philosophes, diplomats, consuls of commerce, and merchants, Cheney rewrites the history of political economy in the Enlightenment era and provides a new interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.
