Development and Underdevelopment in America: Contrasts of Economic Growth in North and Latin America in Historical Perspective (de Gruyter Studies On North America)

Notes On The Comparative Economic History Of Latin America And The United States / John H. Coatsworth -- Hazards Of Growth And Conditions Of Long Run Economic Success : The Case Of The United States / Hansjörg Siegenthaler -- Economic Growth And Stagnation In The Colonial Americas : An Exploratory Essay / Daniel D. Garcia -- The Impact Of The Colonial Heritage On The Economic Development In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Century : North America / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Latin America And Europe In The Nineteenth Century : The Impact Of An Unequal Relationship / Walther L. Bernecker -- (cont.) International Economic Relations Of The United States And Their Impact On Economy, State, And Society To 1860 / Carl-ludwig Holtfrerich -- Agrarian Societies And Economic Development In Nineteenth-century North America / Christopher Clark -- Agrarian Development In Mexico : The Contending Models Of Great Estate And Smallholder / Simon Miller -- Why America And Britain? : The Roots Of Industrialization In The United States / Thomas C. Cochran -- Revolutions And Continuities In American Development / William N. Parker -- Industry In Latin America / Colin M. Lewis. Edited By Walther L. Bernecker And Hans Werner Tobler. Includes Bibliographical References. Inspired by the debates and controversies accompanying the cinquentennial of the discovery of the Americas, the present volume deals with the historical roots of the divergent economic development in the north and south of the continent. Contrary to the prevailing tendency in research on this subject, the present study analyses both North and South America in a comparative perspective. Its main focus is centered on the manifold institutional, economic, and cultural conditions in American history which in many respects account for the unequal economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries north and south of the Rio Grande or at least are able to lend such explanations some plausibility. Bearing no comparison with any other continent, the actual economic gap between North and South America presents a major challenge to scholarship, in tracing the causes of modern "development" and "underdevelopment" respectively. Twelve American and European authors in the fields of History, Economic History and Economics question traditional interpretations and offer new approaches.

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