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State and Coffee Capital in São Paulo's Export Economy (Brazil 1889–1930)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2003

RENATO MONSEFF PERISSINOTTO
RENATO MONSEFF PERISSINOTTO
Affiliation:
Renato Monseff Perissinotto is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
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Abstract

Some recent works on the relationship between coffee interests and the State during the Brazilian ‘First Republic’ (1899–1930) have shown that the relationship between the national State and ‘coffee bourgeoisie’ was not quite as simple as earlier studies had made it seem. However, these analyses seem to assume that, at the regional level, the federalism of the First Republic placed regional political structures under class control. The goal of this article is to show that the ‘instrumentalist’ thesis is not even valid for the State apparatus when considered at the regional level. The article focuses on São Paulo state, seat of the most powerful interests linked to the coffee economy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 1 - 23
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Translated from the Portuguese by Mirian Adelman. The author would like to thank Steven Topik for his intellectual contribution and support.