Viscount Maua and the Empire of Brazil: A Biography of Irineu Evangelista De Sousa (1813-1889)

Viscount Mauá and the Empire of Brazil: A Biography of Irineu Evangelista de Sousa (1813–1889) by Anyda Marchant recovers the remarkable life of Brazil’s most famous 19th-century entrepreneur and, through him, reopens the history of the Brazilian Empire under Dom Pedro II. Mauá—banker, industrialist, railroad builder, and Amazon navigator—embodied Brazil’s drive toward modernization in an era too often dismissed as stagnant. By situating him within the political and economic world of the Se...