TY - BOOK AU - Topik,Steven TI - Trade and gunboats: the United States and Brazil in the age of empire SN - 0804726027 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - E183.8.B7 T66 1996 U1 - 327.73081 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Brazil KW - Relations KW - United States N1 - American Window; Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index N2 - "Late-19th-century US commercial policies were chiefly business-driven but met with little success in Brazil because US business leaders were largely ignorant of market conditions there. Brazil, for its part, was disappointed in its hopes for privileged access to the US sugar market. These commercial and diplomatic relations, even though imperfectly realized, did support development of republican institutions in Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam027/96010467.html UR - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a2l2-aa UR - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a7j7-aa UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/96010467.html ER -