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Coffee—riches and sorrows: How diseases and pests contributed to science, technology and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century in São Paulo, Brazil (2019)

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Agriculture Knowledge circulation Technology and industry Globalization; internationalization Entomology Microbiology Coffee and coffee industry 20th century, early 19th century São Paulo (Brazil)

Coffee became one of the main sources of wealth in Brazil, the state of São Paulo in particular, from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards. However, several problems threatened production, including diseases—mainly infectious—which decimated the workforce, and devastated agricultural pests. In the present study we argue that these factors were some of the triggers for the development of science and technology in Brazil. The local investigators made thorough use of innovations developed abroad, and also sought to create local conditions to overcome scientific and technological challenges. In some relevant cases they contributed to global efforts to eradicate epidemics and pests, and thus to the emergent microbiology and entomology. The case of the coffee industry in São Paulo clearly illustrates aspects of the global-local integration of science, technology and innovation, and of the dynamics of the transit of knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Neumeyer, Sybille
Fullilove, Courtney
Luna, Francisco Vidal
Lavelle, Peter B.
Thomas Prévéraud
Summerhill, William
Journals
Agricultural History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Social Science History
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Globalization; internationalization
Technology and industry
Entomology
Knowledge circulation
Microbiology
People
Veloso, José Mariano da Conceição
Margulis, Lynn
Andrada e Silva, Martim Francisco Ribeiro de
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Enlightenment
20th century
Places
São Paulo (Brazil)
France
Great Britain
Brazil
Hawaii (U.S.)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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