Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
1 This dissertation was completed in 1995 in the Department of History at Stanford University under the direction of Stephen Haber. Research and writing were supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Department of History and Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
2 After 1905 this bank decided to dedicate its operations entirely to its cotton textile concern, the Votorantim company, which is today one of the largest and most powerful conglomerates in Brazil.