1500-2000 1500-1989 encounters reflections

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The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil During the Export Boom, 1850-1930 (Critical ...

Univ of Texas Pr, 1998

Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ways, the means employed during this period to ...

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Emphasizing the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries, on four continents, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The chapters analyze the creation and function of commodity, labor, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the ...

Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire
Steven Topik

Stanford University Press, 2000

A hundred years ago, the United States first projected itself onto the international stage, hoping to stake out a sphere of influence in Latin America just as the largest of Latin American countries, Brazil, ending a 67-year-long monarchical regime, struggled to redefine its relationship to the world economy. Debates raged between liberals and corporatists, between free traders and protectionists. When the trajectories of these two unequal ...

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, And the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Sources and ...

16 reviews
Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik

M.E. Sharpe, 2005

Anxious
Reading this book just makes me exremely anxious... I don't know why.. Maybe its because it just talks about a bunch of stuff that I'm already aware of.. i would rather opt for an interesting story that shows this rather than a bunch of essays. However, if you're into trade and want to sharpen up your knowledge on it, this book is for you.

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 ...

Duke University Press, 2006

Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, rubber, sugar, tobacco, silver, henequen ...