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Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889
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Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by McCreery, David

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  • Title Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889
  • Author McCreery, David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date October 24, 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DD0043272
  • ISBN 9780804751797
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America

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From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-291) and index

From the jacket flap

This book examines the development of the state, the nation, and the economy on the far western frontier of Brazil during the period of the Brazilian Empire. The author argues that the province of Goias, although physically in the center of Brazil, was effectively the far edge of the Empire, thanks to poverty and poor communications. Goias thus provides a useful test case of the limits and effectiveness of nation-building and state-building and of economic integration into national and international economies during these years. The inhabitants of Goias successfully struggled to develop an interprovincial "export" trade in cattle at the same time as local elites negotiated a durable and largely peaceful political compromise with the central government. Smuggling and tax evasion were key to the development of the economy, yet politics remained "pro-government" and largely unruffled by partisan strife until the last decade of the Empire.

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 105

About the author

David McCreery is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is author of The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America (2000), Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 (Stanford University Press, 1994), and Development and the State in Reforma Guatemala, 1871-1885 (1983).