Latin America in the 1930s

ROSEMARY THORP is Reader in the Economics of Latin America at the University of Oxford, Director of the Latin American Centre and a Fellow of St Antony's College and the Chair of Oxfam. Recent publications include Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century.

List of Tables List of Figures and Maps Preface Foreword Notes on the Contributors Introduction; R.Thorp Latin America in the 1930s; C.Alejandro From an Export-led to an Import-Substituting Economy: Chile 1914-39; G.Palma The Effect of the Great Depression on the Economics of Peru and Colombia; R.Thorp & C.Londono The Colombian Economy in the 1930s; J.A.Ocampo Argentina and Brazil during the 1930s: The Impact of British and American International Economic Policies; M.Abreu Before the Depression: Brazilian Industry in the 1920s; F.R.Versiani Argentina into the Depression: Problems of an Open Economy; A.O'Connell The Great Depression and Industrialisation: The Case of Mexico; E.Cardenas Restructuring through the Depression: The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico, 1925-49; E.V.K.FitzGerald Appendix Central America in the Inter-War Period; V.Bulmer-Thomas The 1929 World Depression in Latin America, from the Outside; C.P.Kindleberger Statistical Appendix Index