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  • 1 - The Setting – Climate and Soils of Brazil

  • Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University, New York, Francisco Vidal Luna, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Book:
    Brazil
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 1-22
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  • Summary

    We desribe the basic geography of Brazil, showing the major biomes, rivers, and soil distribution of Brazil

Brazil
  • An Economic and Social History from Early Man to the 21st Century
  • Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna
  • Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023
  • This book is the first modern survey of the economic and social history of Brazil from early man to today. Drawing from a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, it provides a comprehensive overview of the major developments that defined the evolution of Brazil. Beginning with the original human settlements in pre-Colombian society, it moves on to discuss the Portuguese Empire and colonization, specifically the importance of slave labor, sugar, coffee, and gold in shaping Brazil's economic and societal development. Finally, it analyzes the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the past half century, transforming Brazil from a primarily rural and illiterate society to an overwhelmingly urban, literate, and industrial one. Sweeping and influential, Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna's synthesis is the first of its kind on Brazil.

  • Recent Trends in the Study of Spanish American Colonial Public Finance

  • Herbert S. Klein, Jacques A. Barbier
  • Journal:
    Latin American Research Review / Volume 23 / Issue 1 / 1988
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    12 October 2022, pp. 35-62
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  • Fiscal history has become one of the most active new fields of research on colonial Spanish America. This trend has resulted from a number of recent breakthroughs, most notably the reconstruction of colonial treasury records and the appearance of the first revisionist studies based on the new data. These works are challenging traditional views, particularly the general understanding of the colonial economic experience and the evolution of imperial ties. Indeed, the fiscal series now being made available, if properly supported by qualitative research and regional studies, may affect seventeenth- and eighteenth-century historiography as notably as the demographic works of the Berkeley school affected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historiography.

  • Recent Trends in Bolivian Studies

  • Herbert S. Klein
  • Journal:
    Latin American Research Review / Volume 31 / Issue 1 / 1996
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    05 October 2022, pp. 162-170
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  • The Development of a Modern Cellulose Industry in South America

  • Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna
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    Latin American Research Review / Volume 57 / Issue 4 / December 2022
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    15 August 2022, pp. 753-774
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  • Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay today account for well over a third of world exports of cellulose, yet this industry only came into existence in the late twentieth century. The evolution of this industry across the three countries is the object of this study. This nascent industry required direct government support in all three countries to be successful. Forestry laws and government investments in research, education, and factory construction were all needed to encourage local and foreign capital. There were differences among these countries in their linkages to other economic sectors as well as their export mix. But in all three countries, the forestry industry was part of a general modernization of agriculture that allowed for successful competition in world markets.

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