Cambridge Economic History of Latin America 2 Volume Hardback Set (The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521857163 ISBN 13: 9780521857161

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Provides access to the current state of expert knowledge about Latin America's economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies from qualitative historical analysis of policies and institutions to cliometrics, the new institutional economics, and environmental sciences. Each chapter provides a comparative analysis of economic trends, sectoral development, or the evolution of the institutional and policy environment. Volume one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850. Volume two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present.

About this title

Book Description:

An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines and methodologies to provide a synthesis of the past two decades of exciting new research on the region's economic past.

About the Author:

Victor Bulmer-Thomas is the Director of Chatham House, the London home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Professor Emeritus at the University of London. He is a Director of the new India Investment Trust. He is the editor of The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence, Second Edition (2003) and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Open Regionalism (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521857163
• ISBN 13: 9780521857161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1500
• Editor: Bulmer-Thomas Victor, Coatsworth John, Conde Roberto Cortés