Provides an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines and methodologies to provide a synthesis of the past two decades of exciting new research on the region's economic past.
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America provides access to the current state of expert knowledge about Latin Americas economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies from qualitative historical analysis of policies and institutions to cliometrics, the new institutional economics, and environmental sciences. Volume one includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850. Volume Two treats the long twentieth century from the onset of modern economic growth to the present.
