Brazil's foreign trade from 1822 to the end of the XIX century: the search for identity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of the development of Brazil's foreign trade during the XIX century. The author proposes a periodization of the history of Brazil's foreign trade in the period under review. Special attention is paid to the evolution of foreign trade relations with leading trading partners in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and the peculiarities of coffee trade. The article reveals the importance of the slave trade as a specific sphere of Brazil's foreign trade, and provides examples of Russian-Brazilian trade. The author uses mostly little-known and rarely used pre-revolutionary sources in Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese, from which valuable statistical materials characterizing the dynamics and volumes of Brazil's foreign trade during the XIX century are extracted.