Contributors
- Contributors
Steven C. Topik is professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930 (1987) and Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire (1996); co-author, with Kenneth Pomeranz, of The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (1998); co-editor, with Allen Wells, of The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930 (1998); and editor, with David A. Smith and Dorothy J. Solinger, of States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy (1999). He is currently editing a book with William Claren Smith on the world coffee economy, and working on a book manuscript about the history of coffee in the world.
Sandra Kuntz Ficker is professor of history at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Xochimilco, Mexico. She is the author of Empresa extranjera y mercado interno: el Ferrocarril Central Mexicano (1995), and co-editor, with Paolo Riguzzi, of Ferrocarriles y vida económica en México, 1850–1950: del surgimiento tardío al decaimiento precoz (1996). In addition to her work on the economic impact of railroads, she has researched Mexico’s foreign trade and commercial policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Renato Monseff Perissinotto é professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciências Sociais na Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil. Publicou os livros Classes dominantes e hegemonia na República Velha (1994) e Estado e capital cafeeiro em São Paulo (2000), além de vários outros artigos. Também é co-editor da Revista de Sociologia e Política. Seus principais temas de pesquisa são as discussões teóricas sobre o estado capitalista e os processos de state-building na América Latina, especialmente Brasil e Argentina.
