The First Export Era Revisited
Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
Editors: Kuntz-Ficker, Sandra (Ed.)
Free Preview- Uses a uniform set of parameters in order to assess the economic contribution of exports to Latin American economies during the period in which they followed an export-led pattern of growth
- Presents new evidence that allows testing of the claims that conventional wisdom has made about Latin America during the export era
- Provide tools to inductively build a new interpretive synthesis for Latin America
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This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been considered that, as a result of the role of Latin American countries as providers of raw materials produced in enclaves dominated by foreign capital, their participation in the world economy has had adverse consequences for their long-term development. This volume addresses a representative sample of countries with varied initial conditions and resource endowments, a diverse productive specialization, as well as different degrees of integration to the world economy. This allows a direct comparison among the different experiences within the region, which in turn enables a more nuanced understanding of the contribution of exports to economic growth and economic modernization. Seven national case studies are presented – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia – which offer an insight into the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth.
Winner of the Vicens Vives prize for the best economic history book granted by the Spanish Economic History Association. - About the authors
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Sandra Kuntz-Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, USA. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC) and the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). She specializes in the economic history of Mexico and Latin America from the nineteenth- through to the mid-twentieth century.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Latin America’s First Export Era: Reassessing Its Economic Contribution
Pages 1-35
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The Contribution of Argentine Exports to the Economy, 1875–1929
Pages 37-72
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The Bolivian Export Sector (1870–1950)
Pages 73-110
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The Brazilian Export Economy, 1822–1913
Pages 111-150
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The Impact of Nitrates on the Chilean Economy, 1880–1930
Pages 151-188
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The First Export Era Revisited
- Book Subtitle
- Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
- Editors
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- Sandra Kuntz-Ficker
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Economic History
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-62340-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-62340-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-62339-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87295-7
- Series ISSN
- 2662-6497
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 348
- Number of Illustrations
- 57 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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