important public interventions in the Brazilian steel-making debate. This speech made fortune in the historiography, above all … for its incisive statement in favor of a national steel-making industry and, by extension, of industry in general, few … defended in the speech and the steel-making policy which effectively followed it along the first Vargas government, but before …

Empire, for different reasons these endeavors failed, each in its own time, and the Brazilian steel-making entered the 20th … relevant share of the internal demand. Thus, between 1900 and 1940, and especially in the 1920s and 1930s, the Brazilian steel-making … by the steel-making sector, focused on the creation of firms and on the expansion of productive capacity, is the object …

The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until … conflicts surrounding the steel-making question along the Brazilian First Republic. We attempt to identify the main agents which … “small-scale steel-making” and “large-scale steel-making” and the correlate choice between imported coal, national coal and …