An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America: Volume 2: Latin America in the 1930s. The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis

by Rosemary Thorp (Editor)

Overview

This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in the Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty years later. It documents the impact of crisis on the changing role of the state and on institutional development. The Central American case studies have been updated with significantly improved data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333633410
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/10/2000
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROSEMARY THORP is Reader in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford, Director of the Latin American Centre and a Fellow of St Antony's College and the Chair of Oxfam. Recent publications include Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century, a report commissioned by the Interamerican Development Bank.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures and Maps Preface Foreword Notes on the Contributors Introduction; R.Thorp Latin America in the 1930s; C.Alejandro From an Export-led to an Import-Substituting Economy: Chile 1914-39; G.Palma The Effect of the Great Depression on the Economics of Peru and Colombia; R.Thorp & C.Londono The Colombian Economy in the 1930s; J.A.Ocampo Argentina and Brazil during the 1930s: The Impact of British and American International Economic Policies; M.Abreu Before the Depression: Brazilian Industry in the 1920s; F.R.Versiani Argentina into the Depression: Problems of an Open Economy; A.O'Connell The Great Depression and Industrialisation: The Case of Mexico; E.Cardenas Restructuring through the Depression: The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico, 1925-49; E.V.K.FitzGerald Appendix Central America in the Inter-War Period; V.Bulmer-Thomas The 1929 World Depression in Latin America, from the Outside; C.P.Kindleberger Statistical Appendix Index

Editorial Reviews

'This is a remarkable project, bringing together the world's leading authorities in the field and some of the best of a rising generation, with a gratifyingly strong representation of Latin American scholarship. The combination of lucid survey chapters with sectoral and national case histories is unique in its quality and scale.' - James Dunkerly

'...a useful and conscise source of background information on the economic histories of specific countries...' - Gail D. Triner, Enterprise & Society

'...this large collaborative effort will prove worthwhile to a very wide audience.' - Gail Triner, Latin American Research Review

'Their publication is a landmark event...an indispensable reference...' - Edward Beatty, EH.NET

From the Publisher

...extremely well-written,relatively comprehensive,and analytically challenging...researchers will find them immensely important.

Choice

In 1982, a group of economists and economic historians met to consider the effect of the 1929 Depression on Latin America and to explain the continent's rapid recovery. That led to the 1984 . New members joined the group in 1997, and held a series of workshops expanding their coverage to the entire century. Those generated an overview volume in 1998. The first and third of the three volumes here also emerged from those workshops, while the second volume is an update of the original 1984 study. They range between 10 and 12 articles each. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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