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Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Teresa Cribelli (review)

In this innovative study of modernization and technological change in nineteenthcentury Brazil, Teresa Cribelli breaks new ground in demonstrating the extent to which Brazilians shaped the terms and impacts of these multifaceted processes. Indeed, her book furnishes a broad and much-needed cultural interpretation of the histories of science, industry, and technology in Brazil. She establishes at the outset that nation-building and scientific innovation went hand in hand; that Brazilian engineers, industrialists, and coffee planters moved international discussions forward on topics ranging from patents to agricultural machinery to railroad building; and that these reckonings with modernization played out quite publicly, also bearing on the interactions between newspapers, associations, and the state. In connecting the histories of science and technology to the histories of the Brazilian press and public life, Cribelli is in effect expanding our understanding of a topic—modernization—that has most often been considered through the prism of political economy, focusing on debates about either the material impact of such developments, or on the nature of the imperatives, whether external or internal, that drove the process.