Recife
Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, is distinguished by its many rivers, bridges, islets and peninsulas. Recife Antigo, on the island next to the port, is the historic center of the old city dating back to the 16th century. To the south, Praia de Modernos Boa Viagem is protected by reefs and is flanked by modern apartment blocks, hotels and restaurants.
- Liverpool, like no other city, concentrated simultaneously on all the core functions of the global cotton trade. Its merchants traded raw cot ton, shipped cotton goods, and financed both cotton agriculture and cot ton manufacturing. Other cotton cities were more specialized in their activities. Merchants in New Orleans, Alexandria, and Bombay, for example, mastered the export of raw cotton, while Bremen and Le Havre merchants received their shipments. New York and London merchants focused on financing the trade. And widely dispersed merchants in cities from Buenos Aires to Recife, Hamburg to Calcutta received shipments of yarn and cloth and distributed them through their hinterlands.
- Beckert, Sven (2 de dezembro de 2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History (em inglês). [S.l.]: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 202–203. 640 páginas. ISBN 9780385353250
