A revived structuralism may be the only way for Latin America to achieve its growth potential
Dependency makes a comeback
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Tag: Economic history
Community spirits
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São Paulo’s growth owes much to poor migrant communities ––– ||| Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo, Paulo Fontes, 2016, Duke University Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Monument mania
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Modernisation does not always mean progress ––– ||| Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948–1958, Lisa Blackmore, 2017, University of Pittsburgh Press
Categories: South America, Venezuela
Exposed in the fields
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An exploitative labour programme undermined the parasitic relationship between Puerto Rican populism and US priorities in 1950 ––– ||| We Are Left Without A Father, Eileen Suárez Findlay (2015, Duke)
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
An informal violence
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Informalization of the economy due to neoliberal reform has fuelled violence in a poor Argentine barrio ––– ||| In Harm’s Way, Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti (2015, Princeton)
Categories: Argentina, South America
Out of isolation
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A scholar rebels against a dominant perspective on the history of Haiti ––– ||| Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, by Julia Gaffield (2015, North Carolina)
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Europe, Haiti, International, North America, United States
A truce in the forest
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An environmental history of community forestry in Mexico offers valuable lessons in the global effort to reduce deforestation, increase rural incomes and protect diversity
Categories: Mexico, North America
Blooded, but bold
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The Colombia Reader illustrates the many challenges to the narrative of violence that are possible in a country desperate to embark on a new chapter in its history
Categories: Colombia, South America
Simultaneous not separate past
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A globalised approach to economic history offers a radically different way of looking at Latin American nation-building
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Europe, Haiti, International, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Southern comfort
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The Chilean edition of Duke’s Latin America Readers maintains the excellence and scholarly professionalism of this series
Categories: Chile, South America