Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface -- 1 Interests of the Elite -- 2 The International Financial System -- 3 Credit and Crises, 1850 to 1875 -- 4 Coffee Planters -- 5 Abolition -- 6 The Encilhamento -- 7 Orthodox Reaction: The Unsuccessful Phases -- 8 Stabilization --...