Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
Contents:
7. pt. I Iron Ore as Precedent and Example. 1. Historical Setting -- 2. Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law -- pt. II The Struggle to Develop Minerals -- 3. Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil -- 4. The Subsoil as Private Property -- 5. Industrializing Iron Ore -- pt. III Understanding Brazilian Institutions and Minerals -- 6. Minerals and the Formation of Economic Ideology -- 7. Iron Ore as Precedent and Example.
Summary:
"Mining and the State examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment"--P. [4] of cover.
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