Colonial Commodities in Historical Capitalism: Brazil for Export (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) - Hardcover

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Gustavo Acioli Lopes is a professor of economic history in the Department of History at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Leonardo Marques is a professor of colonial American history at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Felipe Souza Melo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History, University of Geneva.

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From the role of sugar in the early history of the colonial era to coffee in the long nineteenth century, commodities have played a crucial role in the development of the Brazilian economy.