Apontamentos sobre missionários, pioneiros e produtos norte-americanos na modernização industrial brasileira

Abstract

The information presented here involves, on one hand, the voluntary colonization by north american immigrants arriving in Brazil during the second half of the 19th century, most of them m issionaries and southerners fleeing the civil war, who intended to disseminate their Presbyterian religious doctrine in our land. On the other hand, the text also deals w ith the silent colonization effected by north american industrial products, less than a century later, which, in fact, consolidated the doctrine of dependent industrial capitalism in Brazil, centered in São Paulo. The history of four manufacturers of hom e appliances installed in the country at that time is used to analyze the question of technological dependence as well as that of the north american "style" as an esthetic doctrine