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Pre-Modern Interest Groups and Government: Brazil in the Nineteenth Century*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Eugene W. Ridings*
Affiliation:
Santa Cruz, California

Extract

Despite the considerable scholarly attention given contemporary interest groups (also known as pressure groups), there are few studies of their governmental influence and operations in a premodern setting. Such studies could tell us much, not only about the historical roots of interest groups, but about governmental processes in premodern nations. Brazil in the nineteenth century is a good subject for such research. With its economy largely based on varied agricultural and raw material export, it was also the scene of incipient industrialization. Under a constitutional monarchy, it had modified representative government, and basic political rights were respected. Nineteenth-century Brazilian interest groups, in addition to illustrating the characteristics of pre-modern interest organizations, strongly influenced governmental decision-making and public opinion and foreshadowed the activities of the much more numerous and varied groups of the twentieth century.

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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1990

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Footnotes

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For their helpful comments and advice the author would like to thank James Eddy, Neill Macaulay, J. Ignacio Mendez, and John Hoyt Williams.

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14 Pang, p. 338. Agricultural clubs also were organized in nearly every município in the sugar zone of Pernambuco in 1883–1884. Hoffnagel, MarcFrom Monarchy to Republic in Notheast Brazil; The Case of Pernambuco, 1868–1895” (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Indiana, 1875), pp. 7576.Google Scholar

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20 Sometimes considered Brazil’s first industrial interest group, the prestigious Auxiliary Society for National Industry (Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional) was in fact a learned society. Founded in 1828, the “industry” in its title referred not to manufacturing in the modern sense but to any type of economically useful endeavor. Most of its activity was devoted to improving agricultural technology and its support of manufacturing was sporadic and tentative. O Auxiliador da indústria Nacional: Periódico da Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional, 1833–1896; Carone, Edgard O Centro Industrial do Rio de Janeiro e a sua Importante Participação na Economía Nacional (1827–1977) (Rio de Janeiro: Centro Industrial do Rio de Janeiro, 1978), pp. 24,Google Scholar53.

21 Associação Industrial, Relatório Apresentado à Assembléia Geral da Associaçião Industrial em Sessão de 10 de Junho de 1882 pela Diretoria da Mesma Associação (Rio de Janeiro: G. Leuzinger & Filhos, 1882), pp. 26–27; Associação Industrial, Relatório de 1884, p. 8.

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23 See, for example, Sociedade União Comercial dos Varegistas de Sêcos e Molhados em 10 de Agôsto de 1881 pela Diretoria da Mesma Sociedade (Rio de Janeiro: Central, 1881) and Relatório de 1897.

24 Schmitter, pp. 139–140.

25 See, for example, Boletim da Sociedade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro 1 (1886) and 2 (1887).

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31 Almanak Administrativo, Mercantil e Industrial do Rio de Janeiro para 1892 (Almanak Laemmert) (Rio de Janeiro: Tipografía do Brasil, 1892), p. 1106; Revista do Clube de Engenharia, Ano II, Vol. 10 (1888), 21; Associaçião Industrial, Relatório de 1884, pp. 1–3.

32 For a dissenting view of relations between planters and factors, see Pang, pp. 52–68.

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53 Minutes, meetings of June 20, 1879, and Jan. 17, 1882, Livro 5 de Atas, AACP, pp. 5,52.

54 For example, Minutes, meeting of May 26, 1877, Livro 4 de Atas, AACP, p. 88; Minutes, meeting of Sept. 17, 1861, Livro 3 de Atas, AACB, p. 3.

55 Minutes are found in Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Agricultura, Atas, Oficios, Etc., 1860–1862, ACIRJ, and Revista Agrícola do Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Agricultura, 1869–1891.

56 For example, Minutes, meeting of Nov. 25, 1874, Livro 4 de Atas, AACP, p. 27; Associação Comercial de Pernambuco, Relatório de 1880, p. 5.

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68 O Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo), Aug. 31, 1898, p. 1.

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70 Associação Comercial do Rio de Janeiro, Relatório de 1901, p. 42.

71 Associação Comercial do Rio de Janeiro, Relatório de 1902, p. 45.

72 Associação Comercial de Pernambuco, Relatório de 1883, pp. 115–123.

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76 Jornal de Noticias (Salvador), Nov. 18, 1899, p.l.

77 Associação Comercial do Maranhão, Relatório, Janeiro a Dezembro de 1891 (São Luís: Frías, 1892), p. 4.

78 Minutes, meeting of May 12, 1891, Livro 7 de Atas, AACP, p. 53.

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83 Ibid., p. 148. The Centro Industrial do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, was created in 1904. There was no carryover of directors or other leaders from the Auxiliary Society for National Industry, whose possessions were inherited by the Centro. Minutes, meeting of Aug. 18, 1904, Centro Industrial do Brasil, Atas, 1904–1923, ACIRJ, p. 1.

84 For example, “A Mentalidade Económica e as Associaçães Comerciais,” Revista de Direito Comercial, 40, vol. 10 (1940), 338; da Costa, João e Sobrinho, Silva Santos Noutros Tempos (São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunals, 1953), p. 251.Google Scholar

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