Teresa Cribelli

Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels

Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781107100565
• ISBN-10: 1107100569
• Artikelnr.: 45154918

Autorenporträt

Teresa Cribelli holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American History from The Johns Hopkins University. She has published articles and book chapters in the US, Brazil, and the UK. She has also curated an exhibition on the Brazilian Black Movement at the University of Alabama and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. She is a past recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Spencer Baird Fellowship at the Dibner Library of Science and Technology, a Smithsonian Institution Library, in Washington, DC. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama and Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nineteenth-century modernization in Brazil
2. The vocabulary of Brazilian modernization
3. Industrial forests
4. The most useful of instruments: plows and agricultural innovation
5. Road-building and railroads: challenges to modernization
6. Trolleys, railroads, and factories, or civilization and barbarism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.