The United States and the Luso-Brazilian Empires

Beyond Coffee, Plow, and Bible

Earl Richard Downes

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Routledge
02 April 2025

Regional studies; History of the Americas; Colonialism & imperialism; Hispanic & Latino studies

This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil’s mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire’s agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions.

The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazil’s economy and society.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally.

By: Earl Richard Downes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032853970
ISBN 10: 1032853972
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 02 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Earl Richard Downes (1947–2024) was an Independent Researcher whose previous affiliations included Associate Dean at William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; Senior Research Associate, North-South Center, University of Miami; Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Florida International University; and Associate Professor of History, USAF Academy. Rafael R. Ioris is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Denver. He has published books, articles and book chapters on various dimensions of Brazil’s economic, political, intellectual, and diplomatic histories, and on the role played by US actors in the course of Brazil’s and Latin America’s development.