Modernização sem desenvolvimento na Paraíba, 1890-1930

"State elites under the Old Republic were divided politically between the northeast and the southwest and economically between the coastal sugar producers and the cotton and cattle fazendeiros of the interior, while the economy itself suffered a persistence of traditional work relations and distribution of income even as the forces of production modernized. A well-researched doctoral dissertation on the economic history of a neglected part of Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.