Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America

ENRIQUE CARDENAS is Professor of Economics and Rector of Universidad de las Am?ricas-Puebla. - JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO is Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a former Finance Minister of Colombia, Director (Minister) of the National Planning Department of Colombia and Minister of Agriculture of Colombia. - 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. Recent books include, Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century.

'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 'In The Export Age, Thorp and a distinguished team of authors reexamine Latin America's economic development before the 1930s to advance our understanding of why export growth so often failed to transform the economies of the region.' - Professor Victor Bulmer, University of London '...a useful and concise 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

• List of Tables and Figures Foreword: An Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America Notes on the Contributors Introduction; E.Cardenas, J.A.Ocampo & R.Thorp Brazil as an Export Economy, 1830-1930; M.P.Abreu & A.S.Bevilaqua Coffee and the Origins of Modern Economic Development in Colombia; J.Ocampo & M.M.Botero The Economies of Central America, 1860-1940; H.P.Brignoli Export-led Growth in Mexico, c. 1900-30; A.Knight Peru, 1884-1930: A Beggar Sitting on a Bench of Gold?; P.Drinot Bolivia, 1900-39: Mining, Railways, and Education; M.E.Contreras Trying to 'Tax and Spend' Oneself Out of the 'Dutch Disease': The Chilean Economy from the War of the Pacific to the Great Depression; G.Palma The Vicissitudes of an Exporting Economy: Argentina (1875-1930); R.C.Conde Alteration, Crisis and Adjustment in Cuba, 1898-1939; A.S.Garcia Index