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This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The volume demonstrates the unique and varied features of Latin American liberalism from its formative period up to 1940 and discusses its relation to state formation. The essays range from a continent-wide comparison to an in-depth local study, from tariff and industrialization policies of central states to the selective liberal convictions of traditional estate owners. The contributors consider the social bases of economic liberalism in the region and their relation to imperialism and to economic dependency. Questions of the strength and the staying power of economic liberalism are considered. In addition, the late appearance of serious alternative policies are treated.

This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day. The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.

This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region''s advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day.The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent

A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens’ rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of “free men of all colors” in Colombia’s Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight’s essay by the volume’s editors, Nils Jacobsen and CristÓbal AljovÍn de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.Contributors. CristÓbal AljovÍn de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens’ rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of “free men of all colors” in Colombia’s Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight’s essay by the volume’s editors, Nils Jacobsen and CristÓbal AljovÍn de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.Contributors. CristÓbal AljovÍn de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.

The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens’ rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of “free men of all colors” in Colombia’s Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight’s essay by the volume’s editors, Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.

Contributors. Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

Apple war größer, wertvoller und mächtiger als je zuvor. Doch im Zenit der Macht liegt bekanntlich der Keim des Niedergangs. Plötzlich erlebte der Kultkonzern aus Cupertino an der Börse einen beispiellosen Absturz – das jahrzehntelange Wachstum scheint an eine Grenze gestoßen zu sein.

Wie andere Imperien in der Geschichte ist auch Apples scheinbar unangefochtene Regentschaft vom Verfall bedroht: Die Herausforderer rund um Googles Android-Betriebssystem, eigene Hybris und die Gesetze der kreativen Zerstörung könnten Apples Reich ins Wanken bringen.

Vor allem scheint fraglich, ob CEO Tim Cook dem schweren Erbe Steve Jobs gewachsen ist und ob Apple auch ohne seinen ikonischen Gründer weiter für bahnbrechende Innovationen sorgen kann. Der erfahrene Wirtschaftsjournalist und Apple-Experte Nils Jacobsen erzählt die packende Geschichte des beeindruckendsten Unternehmens unserer Zeit: Das Geheimnis des unglaublichen Apple-Erfolgs – und wovon er in den nächsten Jahren bedroht werden könnte.

Das Apple-Imperium 2.0Apple ist größer, wertvoller und mächtiger als je zuvor. Doch im Zenit der Macht liegt bekanntlich der Keim des Niedergangs. Wie andere Imperien in der Geschichte ist auch Apples scheinbar unangefochtene Regentschaft vom Verfall bedroht. Die Apple Watch, die erste neue Produktkategorie seit fünf Jahren, tut sich schwerer als erwartet. Und wie lange kann das iPhone eigentlich noch sein bemerkenswertes Wachstum fortsetzen? Das „Apple-Imperium 2.0“ beleuchtet Apple als Wirtschaftsunternehmen – und das vor allem in der Ära des neuen Regenten Tim Cook. Besichtigen Sie den wertvollsten Konzern der Welt, der sein Königreich mit aller Macht verteidigen will und sich dafür doch ein weiteres Mal neu erfinden muss.Der erfahrene Wirtschaftsjournalist und Apple-Experte Nils Jacobsen erzählt die packende Geschichte des beeindruckendsten Unternehmens unserer Zeit: Das Geheimnis des unglaublichen Apple-Erfolgs – und welchen Herausforderungen sich der Techpionier in Zukunft stellen muss.Der AutorNils Jacobsen, Jahrgang 1974, ist ausgewiesener Apple-Experte und Wirtschaftsjournalist mit knapp 20-jähriger redaktioneller Erfahrung. Der gebürtige Hanseat verfolgt seit Mitte der 90er Jahre in unzähligen Artikeln Apples erstaunlichen Aufstieg zum wertvollsten Konzern aller Zeiten und die darauffolgenden Turbulenzen der Tim Cook-Ära. Jacobsen berichtet über Apple täglich beim Medienportal MEEDIA, in einer wöchentlichen Kolumne bei Yahoo Finance und zuvor in zahlreichen Artikeln für manager magazin online, SPIEGEL Online, WELT Online, das Hamburger Abendblatt, Mac Life und anderen bekannten Medien und Apple-Magazinen. www.facebook.com/DasAppleImperium