American Mirror

American Mirror
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9780691190747
ISBN-13 : 0691190747
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Book Synopsis American Mirror by : Roberto Saba

Download or read book American Mirror written by Roberto Saba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Roberto Saba investigates how the antislavery struggle led Brazil and the United States to cooperate, and how this dynamic collaboration helped establish capitalism and free wage labor as the norm in the Western world. Drawing on overlooked writings from entrepreneurs, scientists, planters, Confederate refugees in Brazil, and journalists, Saba's extensive research reveals that while United States Southerners terrified Brazil with aggressive projects to perpetuate and expand slave labor, reform-minded Brazilians-including slaveholders looked to the American North as a powerful instrument of state- and nation-building. They welcomed advocates from the northern United States who helped them to spread labor-saving machinery, expand large-scale coffee production, advance technical education, diversify economic activities, develop urban centers, and expand transportation infrastructure. Saba shows that the binational collaboration of radical modernizers in the United States and Brazil transformed the political economy of both countries, consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in the Western hemisphere, and laid the groundwork for the demise of Brazilian slavery and the expansion of American capitalism"--


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