Unique Home Furniture, Home Decorating and Home Decoration Store
Economic History Of Goias: From the 17th century, when the lure of gold and diamonds brought settlers from Sao Paulo, the economic history of Goias followed a pattern like that of other parts of Brazil. When mineral deposits were exhausted, mining gave way to cattle grazing, and this was succeeded by the growing of subsistence crops. Since the development after World War II of the fertile area called the Mato Grosso de Goias in the southeast, quantities of basic foods, mainly rice and beans, have been shipped from Goias to Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. New paved highways lead
GOIAS, goi-as', a state in Brazil, is situated almost in the geographical center of the country. It is bounded on the north by the states of Para and Maranhao, on the west and south by Mato Grosso, and on the east and south by Minas Gerais, Bahia, and a small section of Piaui. Much of Goias is a plateau (planalto) with an average elevation of 2,500 to 3,000 feet (750 to 900 meters). Goias became economically and politically important in the 1950's and 1960's for two main reasons: (1) the development of modern commercial grain (rice) farming in the south since 1950, and (2) the creation of the new national capital, Brasilia, in southern Goias in April 1960.
In 1874, after having been twice rewritten, his Short History of the English People appeared. This work unified English history as no other had yet done. "What Macaulay had done for a period of English history," said his fellow historian Mandell Creighton, "Green did for it as a whole." Green's purpose was to show the development of English life by a fusion of constitutional, economic, literary, artistic, and social history—subjects that historians had formerly treated independently. He expanded this very successful work into History of the English People (1877-1880). |
|
