BARIL, V.L. (Comte de la Hure) L’Empire du Brésil. Monographie complète de l’Empire sud-américain. Ouvrage dédié à S.M.I. Dom Pedro II. Paris Ferdinand Sartorius 1862
8vo. xv, 576 pp., with an engraved portrait of Emperor D. Pedro II. Contemporary quarter calf. Some foxing on preliminary, end pp. & signature 31.
The author seeks to attract settlers to Brazil; charges brought by German immigrants of unfair treatment had resulted in Prussia banning all emigration of its nationals to Brazil in 1859, and several other German states enacted similar measures in ensuing years. He sets out tables of exports and imports, with prices calculated in both French and Brazilian currency, and lists separately exports to and imports from France. He gives details of the banking system, the brokers and customs service and the types of specie in circulation, and lists the main commercial enterprises with their capital and share values. He comments on the labour shortage and the efforts to encourage colonization, and on pp. 296-300 reproduces the Marquês de Olinda’s instructions for the introduction, distribution and settlement of colonists and the establishment of colonies in Brazil. He gives details of the 1861-62 budget, laments the size of the national debt, and the lack of infrastructure which hindered the transportation of agricultural products. Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 77. Cortés Conde & Stein, Latin America: a guide to economic literature 1830-1930, 1149. Welsh 3846.
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