Description: William Summerhill studies the economic and political history of Brazil. From 2016 to 2019 he was the Dr. E. Bradford Burns Term Chair in Latin American Studies. Author of Inglorious Revolution (Yale Press, 2015), and Order Against Progress (Stanford Press, 2003). Specializes economic history, Brazil, historical political economy, sovereign debt, railroads.
www.IngloriousRevolution.com William Summerhill is Professor of History and Dr. E. Bradford Burns Chair in Latin American Studies at UCLA and author of Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (Yale University Press, 2015)
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Order Against Progress (Stanford University Press, 2003), is now available in Portuguese as Trilhos do Desenvolvimento (Ed. Livros de Safra). [Ebook at Livraria Cultura , amazon.com.br and amazon.com }. Investments in railroads in the second half of the nineteenth century were the single most important factor in Brazil's transition from relative economic stagnation to growth around 1900. Railroads provided large savings on transport costs, releasing scarce resources for other sectors of the economy. The gov