1st Edition
Latin America In The World Economy Mercantile Colonialism To Global Capitalism
By Frederick Stirton Weaver
Copyright 2000
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups). Within his skillful approach, Weaver demonstrates how domestic social conflicts and power relations have consistently capitalized on changes in the... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- The Changing World Economy: Introduction and Early History -- Competitive Capitalist Industrialization, Free Trade Imperialism, and Latin American Independence, 1700–1850 -- Finance Capitalism, the New Imperialism, and Latin American Export Economies, 1850–1930 -- Modern Times, Bretton Woods, and Transnational Corporations, 1920–1970s -- Import Substitution and Semi-Industrialization in Latin America, 1930–1970s -- International Competition and the Dissolution of Modern Times -- Debt, Democracy, and Uncertain Transformations: Latin America in a New World
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Frederick Stirton Weaver
