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Book Between Silver and Guano

Download or read book Between Silver and Guano written by Paul Eliot Gootenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Peru's transformation from a tottering colonial economy based on extraction of precious bullion to a massive exporter of bulk goods like guano shows how a struggle between protectionists and free traders shaped the state. "This is an elegant and sophisticated book that can be read on many levels, written by an author who never takes the facile road. [Its] significance is great--not just for Peruvian history but for theoretical questions relating to dependency and economic history in nineteenth-century Latin America... Gootenberg has added a major new element to the dependency debate, one that is more intellectually satisfying than the sterile old argument about good guys and bad guys."--Timothy E. Anna, The Hispanic American Historical Review "[One] of the best books in recent years on Peruvian history, and a valuable contribution to nineteenth-century commercial and financial studies."--Michael J. Gonzales, Journal of Economic History "Fascinating reading. Gootenberg has taken the why of Latin American underdevelopment a step forward by unraveling complexities of the actual historical-economic forces... [This book] is perhaps the most thorough examination of exactly how those internal class and productive forces contributed to Peru's under-development."--Choice Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book From Silver to Cocaine

Download or read book From Silver to Cocaine written by Steven Topik and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClaims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective./div

Book States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy

Download or read book States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy written by David A. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With editors and contributors of outstanding academic reputation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective, revealing that states do still matter.

Book The pharmaceutical journal and transactions

Download or read book The pharmaceutical journal and transactions written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberals  Politics  and Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent C. Peloso
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780820318004
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Liberals Politics and Power written by Vincent C. Peloso and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of original essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. Liberals, Politics, and Power focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latin Americans who applied liberal ideology to the founding and maintenance of new states. The impact of liberalism in Latin America, the contributors show, is best understood against the larger backdrop of struggles that pitted regional demands against the pressures of foreign finance, a powerful church against a decentralized state, and aristocratic desire to retain privilege against rising demands for social mobility. Moving beyond the traditional historiographical division between Eurocentric and dependency theories, the essays attempt to account for a uniquely Latin American liberal ideology and politics by exploring the political dynamics of such countries as Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru. Contributors discuss liberal efforts to build a viable legal order through elections and to implement a means of public finance that could fund the states' operations. Essays that span the entire century address issues such as the emergence of caudillos, the role of artisans, and popular participation in elections in light of fiscal, and other, impediments to progress. In their introduction, Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara A. Tenenbaum provide a hemispheric overview of liberalism that illustrates its similarities across Latin America. By exploring the liberal constitutional and economic order lying beneath apparently dictatorial states, this pathbreaking volume underlines the importance of fiscal policy in the fashioning of state power. Liberals, Politics, and Power serves not only as a guide to the liberal principles and practices that governed state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America but also as a means to evaluate the complex relationship between ideas and practical politics.

Book Bandits and Liberals  Rebels and Saints

Download or read book Bandits and Liberals Rebels and Saints written by Alan Knight and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history, spanning approximately two centuries, from 1800 to 2000. Knight's approach is ambitious and comparative--sometimes ranging beyond Latin America and combining relevant social theory with robust empirical detail. He tries to offer answers to big questions while challenging alternative answers and approaches, including several recently fashionable ones. While the individual essays and the book as a whole are roughly chronological, the approach is essentially thematic, with chapters devoted to major contentious themes in Latin American history across two centuries: the sociopolitical roots and impact of banditry; the character and evolution of liberalism; religious conflict; the divergent historical trajectories of Peru and Mexico; the nature of informal empire and internal colonialism; and the region's revolutionary history--viewed through the twin prisms of British perceptions and comparative global history.

Book The Exploited Seas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Poul Holm
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-18
  • ISBN : 178694913X
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Exploited Seas written by Poul Holm and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.

Book South American Trade of Baltimore

Download or read book South American Trade of Baltimore written by Frank Roy Rutter and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A World Connecting

Download or read book A World Connecting written by Emily S. Rosenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.

Book Pitman S Commercial Atlas of the World with

Download or read book Pitman S Commercial Atlas of the World with written by Pitman and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lines in the Sand

    Book Details:
  • Author : William E. Skuban
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780826342232
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Lines in the Sand written by William E. Skuban and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.

Book Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality

Download or read book Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality written by R. Thorp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country.

Book A Brief History of Peru

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Hunefeldt
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 1438108281
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book A Brief History of Peru written by Christine Hunefeldt and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the recent social unrest and political developments in Peru requires a thorough understanding of the country's past

Book Global Markets Transformed

Download or read book Global Markets Transformed written by Steven C. Topik and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformations -- The sinews of trade -- Commodity chains

Book A History of Modern Latin America

Download or read book A History of Modern Latin America written by Teresa A. Meade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until today. Illustrates and analyzes the major and minor events that shape history, the triumphs and defeats, and the everyday lives of people of varied classes and racial and ethnic backgrounds Intersperses accounts of the lives of prominent figures with those of ordinary people Emphasizes gender's role in influencing political and economic change and shaping cultural identity Student and instructor resources available at http://minerva.union.edu/meadet/modernlatinamerica/index.html [Wiley disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of any third-party websites that can be linked to from this website. Users assume sole responsibility for accessing third-party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites. Any views expressed in such websites are the views of the authors of the content appearing on those websites and not the views of Wiley or its affiliates, nor do they in any way represent an endorsement by Wiley or its affiliates.]

Book An Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America

Download or read book An Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America written by E. Cardenas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact on Latin America of the extraordinary transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s. The authors show how the response varied in terms of both growth and distribution, shaped by varying preconditions, and by natural resources and geography. The interplay of economic developments with political and social structures had profound and varied effects on policy-making and on institutions that were of great significance for later decades.

Book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings

Download or read book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: