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Latin America in the world economy : mercantile colonialism to global capitalism /

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Latin America in the World Economy considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups). Within his skillful approach, Weaver demonstrates how d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weaver, Frederick Stirton, 1939-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2000.
Series:Latin American perspectives series.
Subjects:
Latin America > Foreign economic relations.
Latin America > Economic conditions.
Latin America > Economic policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ronald Chilcote
  • 1. The Changing World Economy: Introduction and Early History
  • 2. Competitive Capitalist Industrialization, Free Trade Imperialism, and Latin American Independence, 1700-1850
  • 3. Finance Capitalism, the New Imperialism, and Latin American Export Economies, 1850-1930
  • 4. Modern Times, Bretton Woods, and Transnational Corporations, 1920-1970s
  • 5. Import Substitution and Semi-Industrialization in Latin America, 1930-1970s
  • 6. International Competition and the Dissolution of Modern Times
  • 7. Debt, Democracy, and Uncertain Transformations: Latin American in a New World.