Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that h...(展开全部)

3rd Edition in 2014 This study covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present, stressing the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the Uni...(展开全部)

维克托•布尔默-托马斯（Victor Bulmer-Thomas）伦敦大学（University of London）经济学荣休教授，伦敦大学学院（University College London）美洲研究所名誉教授。他还是伦敦大学高级研究学院的高级杰出研究员，查塔姆 研究所(Chatham House)美洲项目的副研究员，2001—2006年担任主任；1992—1998年曾任伦敦大学拉丁美洲研究所所长。其著作包括《自拿破仑战争以来加勒比地区的经济史》(2012)、《1920年以来中美洲的政治经济学》(1987)和《发展中国家的投入产出分析》(1982)。他还是《剑桥拉丁美洲经济 史》(2006年)的联合编辑。 【译者简介】 张森根 1937年生于上海。1961年和1964年毕业于南京大学（本科）和复旦大学（研究生）。1965年起在中国社科院拉美研...(展开全部)

维拉·扎马尼（Vera Zamagni），牛津大学经济史博士，博洛尼亚大学经济史教授、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学世界经济高级客座教授，曾任意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅（Emilia-Romagna）大区副区长。她是European Review of Economic History的联合创办者、il Mulino科学委员会委员、意大利经济史学会（Italian Economic History Society）前秘书长，曾出版《意大利经济史》（Introduzione Alla Storia Economica D'italia）、《全球化的故事》（Una Storia Globale）等十余部著作。

This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationsh...(展开全部)

艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan） 1926年3月6日生于纽约市。1977年获经济学博士学位。1974—1977年任总统经济顾问委员会主席。1987年，里根总统任命他为联邦储备委员会主席，直到2006年退休。他的著作《动荡的世界》曾荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜首。他被称为全球的“经济沙皇”“美元总统”，无论走到哪里，都会在红毯上受到国家元首般的接待。他的公文包里藏着美国乃至全球“经济引擎”的秘密，许多人将其与美国总统的核按钮相提并论。伊丽莎白女王授予他英国爵士称号，高傲的法国人也颁发给他法国荣誉勋章。人们称他为伟大的经济学大师、预言家、魔术师…… 阿德里安·伍尔德里奇（Adrian Wooldridge） 《经济学人》驻华盛顿记者，曾担任《经济学人》美国西海岸分社社长。作品有《企业巫医》《管理大师》等。他曾为《华尔街日报》《泰晤士报》等媒体撰...(展开全部)

The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed signifi...(展开全部)

Now available in paperback, Tongues of Fire deals with one of the most extraordinary developments in the world today - the rapid spread of Evangelical Protestantism in vast areas of the underdeveloped societies, notable Latin America. The growth of Evangelical Protestantism since the 1960's from its epicentre in the United States has been a religious and social phenomenon of ex...(展开全部)

Wiarda's scope, to say the least, is wide: he covers a broad range of Iberian and Latin American history in a rather compact text, swiftly and with a surprising and impressive amount of detail. It is a puzzle and a paradox, then, that he can at once provide many specifics concerning, say, Jos‚ Enrique Rod¢, the early 20th century Uruguayan writer, while at the same time insisti...(展开全部)

American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-ma...(展开全部)