An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America: Volume 3: Industrialization and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years

This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in the Economic History of Latin America. This book confronts the puzzle of Latin Americas rapid recovery from the collapse in the world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety values which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available 50 years later. It documents the impact of crisis on the changing role of the state and on institutional development. The Central American case studies have been updated with significantly improved data.

Author Biography: Rosemary Thorp is Reader in the Economics of Latin America, St. Antony's College, Oxford.