This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century.

"This volume challenges those who see gender inequalities invariably defining and constraining the lives of women. But it also broadens the conversation about t

A clearly structured and well-informed synthesis of developments and events in Brazilian history from the colonial period to the present, this volume is aimed a

Peopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immi

This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the most important m