V. Bulmer-Thomas – The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2008)

Автор: V. Bulmer-Thomas
Название книги: The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America
Формат: PDF
Жанр: История Америки, Австралии, Океании
Страницы: 1325
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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 provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of independence.

Volume Two treats the “long twentieth century” from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth up to 1930, it explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the environment.

The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America began with conversations
among colleagues, later the editors, but would never have passed
from idle chatter to intellectual and material substance without the collaboration
of numerous scholars and institutions. The editors wish to thank
the distinguished contributors to these two volumes for the chapters they
contributed, for traveling great distances to discuss them, and for responding
with dispatch and good cheer to requests to reviewtexts, check citations,
and correct translations.
Most of the papers that became chapters in these two volumes were
presented in original and then revised form at one or more of three meetings.
First draft papers were presented and discussed at the Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association inWashington, DC, in September 2001 and
at the Institute for Latin American Studies (now the Institute for the Study
of the Americas [ISA]) at the University of London, hosted by ISADirector
James Dunkerley, in February 2002. Revised papers, and some additional
chapter drafts, were discussed at a presidential session of the Congress of the
International Economic History Association (IEHA), organized by IEHA
president Roberto Cort´es Conde, in Buenos Aires in July 2002.
This project could not have come to fruition as it has without the generous
support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The editors
wish to thank the Foundation for its support and to acknowledge with
special thanks the efforts of David Lorey, whose vision and hard work, in
addition to his own distinction as a historian ofMexico, helped to make the
Hewlett Foundation’s program on U.S.–Latin American relations a major
contributor in the reconstruction of academic institutions and intellectual
networks in the western hemisphere in the past decade. The Hewlett
Foundation grant was administered without cost to the project by theDavid
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies atHarvardUniversity, whose
assistance is also gratefully acknowledged.
The editors also wish to thank Frank Smith of Cambridge University
Press (CUP) for his encouragement and patience, CUP’s anonymous
reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions, and Daniel Gutierrez of
Harvard University for his hard work and expert editorial assistance.
While these volumes were still in preparation, the editors learned of the
death of Enrique Tandeter from pancreatic cancer on April 24, 2004, at the
age of fifty-nine. Enrique died seven months after the death of his wife,
historian Dora Schwarzstein, also from cancer and at an even younger age.
Enrique was a scholar of exceptional rigor and intelligence, whose research
contributed in fundamental ways to our understanding of the social and
economic history of the Andes during the colonial era. All who knew
Enrique and Dora remember them for their warmth and sophistication,
their courage in the face of exile and tragedy, the high standards of integrity
and professionalism they set for themselves and their students, and their
joy in the achievements of their talented children, Leah and Frederico.