Carlos Gabriel Guimarães

The 'Disguised' Foreign Investor: Brands, Trademarks and the British Expatriate Entrepreneur in Brazil

Abstract This article examines the impact of the British expatriate entrepreneur, and his processes of knowledge transfer, on the industrialization and economic development of Brazil between 1875 and 1914. It focuses on the textiles industry, and combines original trademark data with conventional trade and investment statistics, and also case study analysis about firms and their entrepreneurs. It argues that British investment in Brazil was higher and had a deeper impact on economic development than considered by existing research, as expatriate entrepreneurs ‘disguised’ a substantial amount of foreign investments by acting as shareholders and top managers of newly established local businesses.

Uma leitura sobre o Império do Brasil no contexto do século XIX: diálogo com Ricardo Salles

This article analyzes the essay The Brazilian Empire in the Nineteenth Century. National Slavery, Planter Class, and Intellectuals in the Process of the State Building, seeking to highlight its contribution to the historiographical debate on the construction of the Imperial State of Brazil during the Second Empire.