Business history in Latin America

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-186

  Szmrecsanyi, Tamás ^a   Topik, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 25844455343     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/khh029     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Perhaps the most eloquent statement of this position is Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (New York, 1970).
2. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence, China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, N.J., 2000).
3. One of the most influential statements of this position is Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia contemporanea de América Latina (Madrid, 1969).
4. See, for instance, Business History 39 (1965).
5. Also see Enrique Florescano, Haciendas, latifundios, y plantaciones en America Latina (Mexico, 1975).
6. See Business History 59 (1985).
7. The best and most up-to-date place to start on the business history of Latin America is Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara and Rory Miller, eds., Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries (Liverpool, U.K., 1999),
8. and particularly Rory Miller's "Business History in Latin America, an Introduction" in the volume. The book sports a 57-page bibliography on the business history of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
9. Also see Carmen Cariola Sutter et al., Latin America: A Guide to Economic History, 1830-1930 (Berkeley, Calif., 1977).
10. D. C. M. Platt, ed., British Imperialism 1840-1930: An Inquiry Based on British Experience in Latin America (Oxford, U.K., 1977).
11. For example: Thomas Klubock, Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951 (Durham, N.C., 1998);
12. Julio Moreno, Yankee Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2003);
13. and Thomas O'Brien, The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 (Cambridge, U.K., 1996).
14. An exception is Elisabeth von der Weid, Ana Marta Rodrigues Bastos, and Francisco Carlos Elia, O fio da meada. estratégia de expansão de uma indústria têxtil. Companhia América Fabril, 1878-1930 (Rio de Janeiro, 1986).
15. One thinks of, for example, CONDUMEX (Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico) and the Banamex archives in Mexico City, and IBMEC (Instituto Brasileiro de Mercados de Capitals) in Rio de Janeiro.
16. Francis Goodall, Terry Gourvish, and Steven Tolliday, eds., International Bibliography of Business History (London, 1997).
17. For a discussion of the application in Latin America of social scientific theories, including the economic views of Douglass North, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Karl Polanyi, see Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López-Alves, eds., The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America (Princeton, N.J., 2001).
18. Two recent collections that exemplify the concern with the institutional history of Latin America are John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor, Latin America and the World Economy since 1800 (Cambridge, Mass., 1998);
19. and Stephen Haber, How Latin America Fell Behind: The Economic History of Brazil and Mexico (Stanford, Calif., 1997).
20. Among the exceptions we should mention some high-quality exponents like Andrés Regalsky and Maria Inés Barbero.
21. The papers of the second conference, some of which are in English, have been reissued recently in Tamás Szmrecsányi and Ricardo Maranhão, eds., Historia de empresas e desenvolvimento econômico: coletánea de textos apresentada na II Conferência International de História de Empresas, Campus da USP, setembro de 1993 (São Paulo, 2001).
22. See, for example, Carlos Marichal and Mario Cerutti, eds., Historia de las grandes empresas en México, 1850-1930 (Mexico, 1997);
23. and Mario Cerutti, Proprietarios, empresarios en el norte de México: Monterrey de 1848 a la globalization (Mexico, 2000).