The Empire of the Pine: Sherman A. Bishop and the Grand Ambition of the Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company
The Empire of the Pine: Sherman A. Bishop and the Grand Ambition of the Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company By Will Cavan, Publisher, AGRIMUNDO.tv The turn of the twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented influx of American industrial capital into the virgin resource corridors of Latin America, a historical shift vividly captured in the archival pages of the New York Times. At the absolute vanguard of this territorial and economic expansion were the corporate architects Dr. Fred Stark Pearson and Percival Farquhar, whose sprawling megastructure, the Brazil Railway Company, sought to "Harrimanize" South America by consolidating thousands of miles of trackage across Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, and Peru. Yet, while the grand strategy of this half-billion-dollar empire was conceived in the high-stakes boardrooms of London, Paris, and Wall Street, the actual execution of its most profitable subsidiary—the Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonizatio...