The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^315 One mechanized industry did gain a foothold—the textile manu facture—but only late in the nineteenth ...
(^316) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS An internal proletariat composed of escaped slaves from Brazil, mestizo deserters, and ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^317 women—spinning and weaving, potting, soapmaking, cooking oil, can- dlemaking.^10 In a macho society w ...
(^318) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS seem designed to keep settiers out. Most of the soil went in gigantic pieces to placeme ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY 319 living and land of their own. Meanwhile industry had to find its own workers.* Some branches and ente ...
(^320) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS about granted indemnity to squatters, which only encouraged the prac tice; and then in ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^321 tor. But it had one serious disadvantage: it selected underemployed peasants of little skill and educ ...
Caribbean Sea SOUTH AMERICA AFTER INDEPENDENCE Paraguay, cut off from the sea, needed above all to live at peace with its neighb ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^323 Historians of American immigration argue about the relative im portance of push and pull, and of cou ...
(^324) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS that the pastoral, seminomadic camps of the pampas needed much manpower, or womanpower ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^325 Once Argentina got into high gear, in part owing to the new, imported technologies (steam navigation, ...
(^326) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS fairs."^27 The British built Argentina's railroads—less than 1,000 kilo meters in 1871 ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^327 Each industry had its particular health hazards. In the textile, metal, match and glass factories, th ...
328 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS investment; simple pillage is not an option. So with Argentina, which saved litde and drew ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^329 The Portuguese-Brazilian Way Gilberto Freyre, in his classic study of Brazilian civilization, The Mas ...
(^330) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS republic caught in the jungles and forests of South America hundreds of miles from the ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^331 say; but it showed an awareness of racial realities and signaled a deliberate effort to avoid the col ...
(^332) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS and industrial plant (most important, an iron foundry.and a forge- arsenal). The purcha ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^333 the Brazilians brought up their armored vessels, iron hulls impervious to enemy shells. Their guns br ...
(^334) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS orchestra of six hundred fifty musicians, an infantry battalion under arms, and two fie ...
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