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Roots of underdevelopment : a new economic and political history of Latin America and the Caribbean / Felipe Valencia Caicedo, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Latin America--History.
- Economic development.
- Latin America--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Latin America--Politics and government--19th century.
- Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 585 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Latin American economic history in the light of the recent economic cycles
- Chapter 3: The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence
- Chapter 4: Checks and Balances in the Colonial Government of Peru: Evidence from Office Prices
- Chapter 5: Attached once, attached forever: The persistent effects of concertaje in Ecuador
- Chapter 6: Public Education and Indigenous People in Bolivia, 1880's-1950's
- Chapter 7: The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth and Selection Patterns
- Chapter 8: European Immigration and Agricultural Productivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1898-1920
- Chapter 9: Modernizing Elites in Latin America: Social-network Evidence from the Emergence of Banking in Antioquia
- Chapter 10: Colombia: Democratic but Violent?
- Chapter 11: Political Conflict and Economic Growth in Post-Independence Venezuela
- Chapter 12: The Plantation Economy of Surinam in the 18th Century
- Chapter 13: The Legacy of the Pinochet Regime
- Chapter 14: Missionaries and Soldiers in the Forging of Modern Paraguay
- Chapter 15: Uruguay: the Rise of a Monocentric Economy
- Chapter 16: The Lasting Development Impacts of El Salvador's 1980 Land Reform
- Chapter 17: Global Firms and Local Development
- Chapter 18: Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala
- Chapter 19: The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900
- Chapter 20: Conclusion: Historical Persistence, Possibilism and Utopias in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 11, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783031387234
- 3031387236
- Publisher Number:
- 99995428765
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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