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The Iron and Steel Industry in Colonial and Imperial Brazil
The Americas, 1962It is a well known fact that Brazil today is the greatest producer of iron and steel in all of Latin America. It is less well known that this industry is one of the oldest in the nation. Any effort to trace the development of this iron-working industry from its earliest sources should take into consideration the contributions of the Jesuits.
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INFLATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN IMPERIAL BRAZIL (1824-1889)
European Review of Economic HistoryDrawing on 20,000 monthly quotations, this study revises imperial Brazil's inflation and living standards estimates. The new price index eliminates the nineteenth-century ‘low-growth puzzle’: Brazil’s GDP per capita rose in line with the Latin-American average.
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The Chemistry of Diet: Medicine, Nutrition, and Staple Foods in Imperial Brazil
Ambix, 2015Brazilian cuisine is much admired by present-day international chefs. However, in the nineteenth century, local ingredients and recipes were looked down upon by the Portuguese colonists, as well as by visiting European naturalists. This fact, together with medical and chemical views formulated throughout the 1800s, led locally trained doctors to ...
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Business and Government in Imperial Brazil: the Experience of Viscount Mauá
Journal of Latin American Studies, 1981On January 28, 1808, the ports of Brazil, hitherto restricted to Portuguese vessels, were thrown open to direct trade with all friendly nations. Two months later, the ban on manufacturing in the colony was lifted. In October theBanco do Brasilwas authorized as a bank of issue designed to supply the government's credit needs and to foster internal and ...
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Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2022openaire +1 more source
Industry and Imperialism in Brazil
Review of Radical Political Economics, 1971openaire +1 more source
Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil
Church History and Religious Culture, 2010openaire +1 more source
Polycrystals of “imperial” topaz from Minas Gerais state, Brazil
Mineralogy and Petrology, 2019Leonardo Martins Graça, Teodoro Gauzzi
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