Steven Topik / Carlos Marichal / Zephyr Frank

Gebundenes Buch

From Silver to Cocaine

Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

Herausgeber: Topik, Steven; Frank, Zephyr; Marichal, Carlos

Beschreibung

Claims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective.

Autor

Steven Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His books include The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (with Kenneth Pomeranz) and Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire. Carlos Marichal is Professor in the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México. He is the author of A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820–1930 and numerous books in Spanish. Zephyr Frank is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Stanford University. He is the author of Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337539
• ISBN-10: 0822337533
• Artikelnr.: 21760218