Inside The Volcano: The History And Political Economy Of Central America / Edition 1

by Frederick Stirton Weaver

Overview

This book provides a historical background to recent Central American social unrest, repression, and revolution to help readers engage in current arguments, claims, and debates in a critically and historically informed manner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813309798
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	03/19/1994
Series:	Series in Political Economy and Economics
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

Frederick Stirton Weaver is professor of economics and history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His publications include the Inside the Volcano: History and Political Economy of Central America (Westview, 1994).

Table of Contents

Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America — Introduction — Conquest and Colony, 1500 to 1700 — Colonial Reform, Political Independence, and the Liberal Experiment, 1700 to 1850 — The Export Economies: Coffee, Bananas, and Social Structure, 1850 to 1930 — Economic Decline, War, and the Ascent of the State, 1930 to the 1950s — Economic Dynamism and Structural Transformation, the 1950s to the Early 1980s — Economic Dynamism and Political Decay the 1950s to the Early 1980s — The International Political Economy of Democracy, the 1980s to the Present — Suggested Readings — Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America — About the Book and Author