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Jonathan C Brown
Cambridge University Press

A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860

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AuthorJonathan C Brown
PublisherCambridge University Press
PublishedJun 05 2012
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780521102100
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.72 inches
Weight 0.9 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Latin America - South America
LanguageEnglish

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This book surveys Argentina's development from the establishment of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata within the Spanish-American empire to the building of the first railways in the independent nation. Two aspects of Argentina's development receive special attention. First, the author examines the international markets for Argentina's products, taking into account the industrial revolution then under way in Europe and the United States. Second, he discusses the influence of traditional native technology on Argentine production and transport. In addition to describing commercial development at the port of Buenos Aires, the study discusses the expansion of ranching and farming onto the virgin pampas. Although the prosperity of Buenos Aires was not duplicated in the interior provinces, the export trade did permit commercial recovery from depression and civil war throughout Argentina. The author concludes that the conventional dependent or neo-colonial theory of Latin American development does not apply to Argentina's economic expansion. The staple theory of economic growth proves to be more accurate, for the linkages produced by the export trade actually diversified domestic economic activity and broadened entrepreneurial and labour opportunities in Argentina.

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Jonathan C. Brown's new book, Cuba's Revolutionary World, came out at the Harvard University Press in the spring of 2017. He has written four other single-authored books: A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860 (1979); Oil and Revolution in Mexico (1993), Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period (2nd ed., 2005), and A Brief History of Argentina (2nd ed., 2009).

Three of these books have been translated and published in Latin America. His first book on Argentina, published at Cambridge University Press, won the Bolton Prize. Brown also has edited a collection of essays on workers and populism in Latin America and co-edited books on the Mexican oil industry and on Argentine social history.

Source: The University of Texas at Austin Department of History

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