Drinot / Knight The Great Depression in Latin America

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7624-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

The contributors to this collection examine the lasting impact of the Great Depression on Latin America in terms of its effects on the role of the state, political-party competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drinot, Paulo

Knight, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Paulo Drinot 1

1. The Impact of the Depression on Argentine Society / Roy Horn 22

2. Chilean Workers and the Great Depression, 1930–1938 / Angela Vergara 51

3. Change with Continuity: Brazil from 1930 to 1945 / Joel Wolfe 81

4. The Great Depression in Peru / Paulo Drinot and Carlos Contreras 102

5. Export Protectionism and the Great Depression: Multinational Corporations, Domestic Elite, and Export Policies in Colombia / Marcelo Bucheli and Luis Felipe Sáenz 129

6. Political Transition in an Age of Extremes: Venezuela in the 1930s / Doug Yarrington 160

7. Indigenista Dictators and the Problematic Origins of Democracy in Central America / Jeffrey L. Gould 188

8. The Character and Consequences of the Great Depression in Mexico / Alan Knight 213

9. Cuba: Depression, Imperialism, and Revolution, 1920-1940 / Gillian McGillivray 246

10. The Great Depression in Latin America: An Overview / Alan Knight 276

Contributors 341

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is the author of The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State and editor of Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.

Alan Knight is Professor of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Mexico: The Colonial Era; Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest; and The Mexican Revolution (two volumes).