Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- PART ONE FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE FORMATION OF NATION-STATES
- PART TWO ENTRY INTO THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
- PART THREE THE TRADITIONAL STRUCTURAL PATTERN
- PART FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDUSTRIALISATION PROCESS
- PART FIVE REORIENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE RECENT PERIOD
- PART SIX INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- PART SEVEN INTRA-REGIONAL RELATIONS
- PART EIGHT STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION POLICIES
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface to the first edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- PART ONE FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE FORMATION OF NATION-STATES
- PART TWO ENTRY INTO THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
- PART THREE THE TRADITIONAL STRUCTURAL PATTERN
- PART FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDUSTRIALISATION PROCESS
- PART FIVE REORIENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE RECENT PERIOD
- PART SIX INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- PART SEVEN INTRA-REGIONAL RELATIONS
- PART EIGHT STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION POLICIES
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The study of the economic development of the Latin American countries has been attracting increasing interest, both in Europe and in the United States and in the countries of the Third World generally. An independent political life, which began practically at the same time as the Industrial Revolution, and an even longer experience of the international division of labour system as exporters of raw materials, single out this group of countries from among the now numerous family of nations with so-called underdeveloped economies. To these reasons must be added the growing awareness that, to a greater extent in Latin America than in any other important areas, obstacles to development are mainly of an institutional nature, a circumstance that makes it doubly difficult to try to identify evolutional trends in the region. Moreover, the problems posed by economic development at its present stage are leading Latin American peoples to see their situation in more truthful terms and to value those aspects that constitute the features of a common cultural personality. This book was written with the dual purpose of helping students outside the area to form some idea of the socio-economic profile of the region and of contributing to the provision of a wider perspective for studies of the development of individual Latin American countries. In seeking to avoid dealing with each country in isolation - which would be to ignore the existence of a cultural reality in process of becoming homogeneous- I have also tried to avoid giving the false impression that there is a Latin American economic system.
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- Economic Development of Latin AmericaHistorical Background and Contemporary Problems, pp. xvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977