Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Tropical Capitalism

The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1897-1997

  • Book
  • © 2001

Overview

Authors:
  1. Marshall C. Eakin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 16.99 USD 39.99
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 16.99 USD 54.99
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 1-8

  3. Industry, Technology, and Politics

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 9-31

  4. Building Belo Horizonte and a Business Elite, 1890s–1940s

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 33-57

  5. Technology and Industrialization, 1890s–1940s

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 59-88

  6. Technocrats, Politicians, and Industrialists, 1940s–1960s

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 89-127

  7. The “Quadruple Alliance,” 1960s–1990s

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 129-165

  8. Conclusion: Webs of Power—A Century of Industrialization

    • Marshall C. Eakin
    Pages 167-179

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-269
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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 innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, this book explores industrialization in Latin America, and looks beneath the larger, national economy to dissect a city and region.

Reviews

'Tropical Capitalism is an example of the quality scholarship one has come to expect of Marshall Eakin.' - Douglas Cole Libby, Enterprise & Society

'...good scholarship that addresses useful questions...' - EH.Net

About the author

MARSHALL C. EAKIN is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation