BRAZIL : ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 1870-1930

Over the last thirty years Brazil has been a country marked both by strong rates of economic growth and by widening social inequalities. The aim here is to look at the roots of these problems in the period of the export boom? What were the economic implications of the coffee boom for the state, the coffee regions, and the other areas of Brazil? What were the major social changes which occurred in this period? Would it be reasonable to argue that the conditions of blacks deteriorated despite the ending of slavery and that race was a major division on Brazilian society? What impact did European immigration have?

General

L. Bethell (ed.), Brazil: empire and republic, 1822-1930

M.L. Conniff & F.D. McCann (eds.), Modern Brazil: elites and masses in historical perspective

J. Murilo de Carvalho, ‘Brazil, 1870-1914: the force of tradition’, JLAS 24: Quincentenary Supplement (1992), 147-62

Economy

S.H. Haber (ed.), How Latin America Fell Behind: essays on the economic history of Brazil and Mexico

*N. Leff, `Economic Retardation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil', EcHR 25 (1972), 489-507

C.M. Peláez, `The Theory and Reality of Imperialism in the Coffee Economy of Nineteenth-Century Brazil', EcHR 29 (1976), 276-290

S. Topik, The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889-1930

G.D. Triner, ‘Banks, Regions and Nation in Brazil, 1889-1930’, LAP 26 (1999), 129-150

Society: Slavery and Race

*G.R. Andrews, ‘Black and White Workers: São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1928’, HAHR 68 (1988), 491-524

G.R. Andrews, ‘Black Political Protest in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988’, JLAS 24 (1993), 143-172.

K.D. Butler, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in post-abolition São Paulo and Salvador

S. Chalhoub, ‘Slaves, Freedmen and the Politics of Freedom: the experience of blacks in the city of Rio’, Slavery and Abolition 10: 3 (1989), 64-84

R. Graham, 'Causes for the Abolition of Negro Slavery in Brazil: an interpretive essay', HAHR 46 (1966), 123-137

R.B. Toplin, 'Upheaval, Violence and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil', HAHR 49 (1969), 617-638

Society: Rural

T.A. Diacon, 'Peasants, Prophets, and the Power of a Millenarian Vision in Twentieth-Century Brazil', CSSH 32 (1990), 488-514

*K. Duncan & I. Rutledge (eds.), Land and Labour in Latin America, chs. 12, 14, 15

M.A. Font, ‘Labor System and Collective Action in a Coffee Export Sector: São Paulo’, in W. Roseberry et al. (eds.), Coffee, Society and Power in Latin America, pp. 181-205

R.M. Levine, 'Mud-Hut Jerusalem: Canudos Revisited', HAHR 68 (1988), 525-572

E.S. Pang, 'Coronelismo in Northeast Brazil', in R. Kern & R. Dolkart (eds.), The Caciques: oligarchical politics and the system of caciquismo in the Luso-Hispanic world

P. Singlemann, ‘Political Structure and Social Banditry in North eastern Brazil’, JLAS 7 (1975), 59-83

*V. Stolcke & M.M. Hall, 'The Introduction of Free Labor on São Paulo Coffee Plantations', Jnl. Peasant Studies 10 (1983), 170-200

Society: Urban

*H.S. Klein, ‘The Social and Economic Integration of Portuguese Immigrants in Brazil in the Late Nineteenth Century’, JLAS 23 (1991), 309-338

S.L. Maram, 'Labor and the Left in Brazil, 1890-1921: a movement aborted', HAHR 57 (1977), 254-272

*T.E. Meade, 'Living Worse and Costing More: resistance and riot in Rio de Janeiro, 1890-1917', JLAS 21 (1989), 241-266

J.D. Needell, 'The Revolta contra vacina of 1904: the revolt against 'modernisation' in Belle-Epoque Rio de Janeiro', HAHR 67 (1987), 233-270

J. Wolfe, 'Anarchist Ideology, Worker Practice: the 1917 general strike and the formation of São Paulo's working class', HAHR 71 (1991), 809-846