Estrada de Ferro Madeira-Mamoré: imperialismo nos trópicos (1903-1912)

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the foreign policy of Rio Branco had changed the diplomacy to the side of the United States, seeking to decrease the English economic hegemony on the domestic market in Brazil. The construction of political-business alliance coincides with the period of intensive exports of European financial capital to the peripheral countries, which facilitates the entry of large corporations for monopolistic control of production of agricultural-exporting country. The focus of this dissertation is the construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, venture that opened the way for the actions of the Farquhar Syndicate, case illustrating the formation of monopoly directed the flow of production of rubber, a product that amounted to the Amazon region for the main exporting meet the demand of industrial countries. The projection of an empire of Percival Farquhar, from Mamoré Railway Co., Amazon River Steam Navigation and Port of Para, found in the economic situation of the time the determining factors for its occurrence and also to your order.