Interests of the elite -- The international financial system -- Credit and crises, 1850 to 1875 -- Coffee planters -- Abolition -- The Encilhamento -- Orthodox reaction : the unsuccessful phases -- Stabilization -- Reflections on inflation
Summary
From 1850-1914, Brazil enjoyed political and financial stability, interupted just once. During the rupture, 1889-1894 the country suffered two successful coups-d'état, military government, civil war and a disastrous decline in the value of the national currency. These years of crisis came in the wake of Brazil's abolition of slavery
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index
