The Great Depression in Latin America / Paulo Drinot and Alan Knight, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drinot, Paulo.

Knight, Alan, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressions--1929--Latin America.

Depressions.

Latin America--Economic conditions--20th century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different countries while noting common cross-regional trends--in particular, a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial to the region's subsequent development. The book also examines how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic crisis.Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora, Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe, Doug Yarrington

Contents:

The impact of the depression on Argentine society / Roy Hora

Chilean workers and the Great Depression, 1930-1938 / Angela Vergara

Change with continuity : Brazil from 1930 to 1945 / Joel Wolfe

The Great Depression in Peru / Paulo Drinot and Carlos Contreras

Export protectionism and the Great depression : multinational corporations, domestic elite, and export policies in Colombia / Marcelo Bucheli and Luis Felipe Sa̹enz

Political transition in an age of extremes : Venezuela in the 1930s / Doug Yarrington

Indigenista dictators and the problematic origins of democracy in Central America / Jeffrey L. Gould

The character and consequences of the Great Depression in Mexico / Alan Knight

Cuba : depression, imperialism, and revolution, 1920-1940 / Gillian McGillivray

The Great Depression in Latin America : an overview / Alan Knight.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822357506

082235750X

9780822376248

0822376245

OCLC:

891394976