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Latin American Economic History: Economic vs. Cultural Interpretations

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A COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA, 1500–1914. 1: MEXICO; 2: ARGENTINA; 3: BRAZIL; 4: PERU. By RANDALL LAURA. (Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 292, 268, 269, 231. $16.50.)
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ARGENTINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By RANDALL LAURA. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. 322. $17.50.)
LATIN AMERICA: A GUIDE TO ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1830–1930. Edited by CONDE ROBERT CORTÉS and STEIN STANLEY J. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. 703. $35.00.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Eric N. Baklanoff
Eric N. Baklanoff*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , 1981 , pp. 245 - 249
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Copyright © 1981 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. Her grouping is similar to the nine subcultures described in Charles Wagley and Marvin Harris, “A Typology of Latin American Subcultures,” American Anthropologist 57 (June 1955): 428–51.

2. John F. Ramsay, Spain: The Rise of the First World Power (University: University of Alabama Press, 1973), “Foreword.”

3. Ibid., p. 79.

4. Raymond Vernon, The Dilemma of Mexico's Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963), p. 44.

5. William P. Glade, The Latin American Economies: A Study of Their Institutional Evolution (New York: American Book Co., 1969), pp. 33–38.

6. Flavia Derossi, The Mexican Entrepreneur (Paris: Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1971), pp. 143–58.

7. The seven cases included England, France, Russia, India, Japan, Pakistan, and Colombia (specifically, the Antioqueños). See Everett Hagen, The Economics of Development (Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, 1975), pp. 277–80.