Category: History - Other
HISTORY OF BRAZIL 10 Discovery—Henry the Navigator—Search for Cathay—Captain Cabral—Duarte Coelho—The Capitanias—Ramalho and Caramarú—São Paulo, Bahia and Pernambuco—The Jesuits—Mamelucos—First Entradas—The Sertão—The Bandeirantes—Raposo—Fernão Dias—Gold and Diamonds—Destructi...
HISTORY OF BRAZIL 10 Discovery—Henry the Navigator—Search for Cathay—Captain Cabral—Duarte Coelho—The Capitanias—Ramalho and Caramarú—São Paulo, Bahia and Pernambuco—The Jesuits...
2. CHAPTER IICOLONIZATION 56 Group Immigration Planned—Swiss in Nova Friburgo—First Germans in Rio Grande—Petropolis and Blumenau—Joinville— German Emigration Forbidden—Portuguese Colonies—P...
3. CHAPTER IIISOCIAL CONDITIONS 76 Brazilian Courtesy—European Influence—Titles—Dominating Class—Fazendeiros and Commerciantes—Mixed Blood and the Labouring Classes—Bacharelismo—The Sertanejo...
4. CHAPTER IVTRANSPORTATION. I. RIVER AND ROAD 123 Early Water Communication—Waterways Penetrating Interior— Great rivers—Early roads—New Automobile highways II. RAIL 129 First Railroad Plan...
5. CHAPTER VINDUSTRIES 167 The Coffee Industry of Brazil—The Rubber Industry of the Amazon—The Meat Industry: Cattle Raising and Packing-Houses— Cotton Growing and Weaving—Herva Matte—Sugar...
6. CHAPTER VIFINANCE. I. CURRENCY 276 Value of the milreis—Fluctuations—Caixa de Conversão— Convertible and Inconvertible Paper—Emergency Issues—Treasury Bills—Paper Currency, at Different D...
7. CHAPTER VIITHE WORLD’S HORTICULTURAL AND MEDICINAL DEBT TO BRAZIL 306 Brazilian Origin of Well-known Flowers—First Botanists—Piso and Marcgrav—Loudon’s Hortus—Gardner—Orchids—Cattley—Flowe...
8. CHAPTER VIIIBRAZIL’S EXTERIOR COMMERCE 316 Dominant Districts and Industries—Figures of Ten-year Periods of Commerce—The Nine Principal Articles—São Paulo’s Share— United States Purchases—I...
9. CHAPTER IBrazil and the Brazilians cannot be understood without knowledge of their history, for here as in no other part of Latin America the past has led up to the present without any v...
10. CHAPTER IIThe story of colonization in Brazil is unique in the annals of the human movement across the world that has been going on ever since man began to multiply and to seek elbow-room...
11. CHAPTER IIIOne afternoon I sat in a street-car of the Copacabana line running to and from the heart of Rio de Janeiro city. As we approached the Avenida and paused at a sharp turn at the r...
12. CHAPTER IVAll the great railway systems of Brazil are pioneers, lines of penetration, driving into new country like hopeful explorers, and starting from one of the old centres of populati...
13. CHAPTER VThe huge coffee industry in Brazil will not receive a great deal of space in this book for two reasons: the first is that the subject needs a special monograph to deal with it t...
14. CHAPTER VIIn common with other young countries whose gold reserves are insufficient to back the paper currency used to carry on the ordinary business of life within her borders, Brazil ha...
15. CHAPTER VIILoudon, the English horticultural authority, says in his _Encyclopædia of Gardening_ (1835) that “some of the finest flowers of British gardens are natives of South America, esp...
16. CHAPTER VIIIStudying the commerce of Brazil with the rest of the world, following the remarkable variations in amount of export of certain articles, and the no less remarkable fluctuation i...