Latin America in the 1930s : The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis

This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty years later. It documents the impact of crisis on the changing role of the state and on institutional development. The Central American case studies have been updated with significantly improved data. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-16 Latin America in the 1930s....Pages 17-49 From an Export-led to an Import-substituting Economy: Chile 1914–39....Pages 50-80 The Effect of the Great Depression on the Economies of Peru and Colombia....Pages 81-116 The Colombian Economy in the 1930s....Pages 117-143 Argentina and Brazil during the 1930s: The Impact of British and American International Economic Policies....Pages 144-162 Before the Depression: Brazilian Industry in the 1920s....Pages 163-187 Argentina into the Depression: Problems of an Open Economy....Pages 188-221 The Great Depression and Industrialisation The Case of Mexico....Pages 222-241 Restructuring through the Depression: The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico, 1925–40....Pages 242-278 Central America in the Inter-War Period....Pages 279-314 The 1929 World Depression in Latin America — from the Outside....Pages 315-329 Back Matter....Pages 331-344