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The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America

Volume 1. The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century

Patrick O'Brien, Patrick Manning, Rebecca Storey, Randolph J. Widmer, Eleanor Melville, Linda Newson, John Monteiro, John Coatsworth, Carlos Sempat Assadourian, Enrique Tandeter, Aurora Gómez, Graciela Márquez, Carlos Marichal, Leandro Prados de la Escosura
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  • Date Published: March 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521812894

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  • Volume one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and the performance of key sectors of the colonial and immediate post-colonial economies. Finally, it analyses of the costs and benefits of independence.

    • Comparative and synthetic allowing readers to understand similarities and differences in the paths of the economies discussed
    • Covers all of Latin American economic history, not just the last two centuries
    • Covers issues like education and the environment which economic histories tend to neglect
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    • Date Published: March 2006
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521812894
    • length: 616 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 160 x 45 mm
    • weight: 0.957kg
    • contains: 26 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. The Economic Background:
    1. The global economic history of European expansion overseas Patrick O'Brien
    2. African connections with American colonization Patrick Manning
    3. The pre-Columbian economy Rebecca Storey
    Part II. Natural Resources and Factor Endowments:
    4. Land use and the transformation of the environment Eleanor Melville
    5. The demographic impact of colonization Linda Newson
    6. Labor systems John Monteiro
    Part III. Economic Organization and the Sectoral Performance:
    7. Political economy and economic organization John Coatsworth
    8. Agriculture and land tenure Carlos Sempat Assadourian
    9. The mining industry Enrique Tandeter
    10. Pre-modern manufacturing Aurura Gómez
    11. Commercial monopolies and external trade Graciela Márquez
    12. Money, taxes, and finance Carlos Marichal
    Part IV. The Economic Impact of Independence:
    13. The economic consequences of independence Leandro Prados de las Escosura.

  • Editors

    Victor Bulmer-Thomas
    Victor Bulmer-Thomas is the Director of Chatham House, the London home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Professor Emeritus at the University of London. He is a Director of the new India Investment Trust. He is the editor of The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence, Second Edition (2003) and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Open Regionalism (2001).

    John Coatsworth
    John H. Coatsworth is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs in the Department of History at Harvard University. In addition to serving as the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies since its founding in 1994, he chairs the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. His recent books include Latin America and the World Economy since 1800, edited with Alan M. Taylor (1998) and Culturas Econtradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos, Edited with Rafael Hernandez (2001).

    Roberto Cortes-Conde
    Roberto Cortés Conde is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Universidad de Sand Andrés in Buenos Aires, Roberto Cortés Conde is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Universidad de Sand Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History of Spain. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has published numerous books and scholarly articles. His most recent books include La Economía Argentina en el Largo Plazo (Siglos xix yxx)(1997), Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New Wold: Monetary and Fiscal Instututions in the 17th Through the 19th Century (2002), edited with Michael D. Bordo, and Historia Económica Mundial (2003).

    Contributors

    Patrick O'Brien, Patrick Manning, Rebecca Storey, Randolph J. Widmer, Eleanor Melville, Linda Newson, John Monteiro, John Coatsworth, Carlos Sempat Assadourian, Enrique Tandeter, Aurora Gómez, Graciela Márquez, Carlos Marichal, Leandro Prados de la Escosura

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