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Anne Hanley

Board of Trustees Professor, Northern Illinois University


Brazil, Economic History, Financial history, Economic Development, inequality, standardization
Women in Business History

Anne G. Hanley is Board of Trustees Professor and Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, where she has taught since 1999.  Her research interests are in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazilian economic history.  She is the author of Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil 1850-1920 (Stanford 2005) and The Public Good and the Brazilian State: Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822-1930 (Chicago, 2018), as well as many articles and chapters on Brazil’s economic and financial history. She is writing a book a history of standardization in nineteenth-century Brazil, leading to the adoption of the metric system and the conduct of the first national census in 1872.

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