Introduction -- Part I. Export sector organization, contention, and structural change: Planters and independent agriculture ; Elite mobilization and policy-making ; Coffee and industrialization -- Part II Politics: the quest for hegemony: A changing polity ; From export sector segmentation to power struggle ; Coffee and the revolution of 1930 ; From contention to revolution ; Demise of an old regime ; Conclusion: A great transformation in São Paulo
Summary
This volume examines the dynamism of the São Paulo region and its coffee industry and evolution since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Targeting key players such as large entrepreneurial coffee landlords and immigrant settlers, this book addresses the process of transformation and segmentation in São Paulo and Brazil
