The 15 essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or neoclassical economic theory and quantitative method.
The 15 essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors comb...
This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition complete with a substantive new introduction and foreword. Eric Van Young explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root. The author explains the development of a regional agrarian system, centered on the landed estates of late colonial...
This classic history of the Mexican hacienda from the colonial period through the nineteenth century has been reissued in a silver anniversary edition...
Latin America's widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. Since the 1990s, historians, economists, and other social scientists have sought to document and analyze the historical roots of Latin America's relatively high inequality and persistent poverty. This edited volume with eight compelling chapters by preeminent economists and social scientists brings together some of the most important results of this work: scholarly efforts to measure and explain changes in Latin American living standards as far back as the colonial era. The recent...
Latin America's widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. Since the 1990s, historians, economi...
