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The First Export Era Revisited

Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies

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Editors:
  1. Sandra Kuntz-Ficker

    1. El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico

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  • Uses a uniform set of parameters in order to assess the economic contribution of exports to Latin American economies during the period in which they followed an export-led pattern of growth
  • Presents new evidence that allows testing of the claims that conventional wisdom has made about Latin America during the export era
  • Provide tools to inductively build a new interpretive synthesis for Latin America

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Latin America’s First Export Era: Reassessing Its Economic Contribution

    • Sandra Kuntz-Ficker
    Pages 1-35

  3. The Contribution of Argentine Exports to the Economy, 1875–1929

    • Sandra Kuntz-Ficker, Agustina Rayes
    Pages 37-72

  4. The Bolivian Export Sector (1870–1950)

    • Jose Alejandro Peres-Cajías, Anna Carreras-Marín
    Pages 73-110

  5. The Brazilian Export Economy, 1822–1913

    • Christopher David Absell, Antonio Tena-Junguito
    Pages 111-150

  6. The Impact of Nitrates on the Chilean Economy, 1880–1930

    • Marc Badia-Miró, José Díaz-Bahamonde
    Pages 151-188

  7. Exports and Economic Development in Colombia: A Regional Perspective, 1830–1929

    • José Antonio Ocampo, Santiago Colmenares Guerra
    Pages 189-231

  8. Mexico in the Export Era (1870s–1929): Export Boom, Economic Modernization, and Industrialization

    • Sandra Kuntz-Ficker
    Pages 233-276

  9. Exports and Their Impact on the Economy. The Case of Peru, 1830–1930

    • Luis Felipe Zegarra
    Pages 277-312

  10. Latin America’s First Export Era: A Preliminary Balance (Toward a New Synthesis)

    • Sandra Kuntz-Ficker
    Pages 313-336

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 337-348
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About this book

This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been considered that, as a result of the role of Latin American countries as providers of raw materials produced in enclaves dominated by foreign capital, their participation in the world economy has had adverse consequences for their long-term development. This volume addresses a representative sample of countries with varied initial conditions and resource endowments, a diverse productive specialization, as well as different degrees of integration to the world economy. This allows a direct comparison among the different experiences within the region, which in turn enables a more nuanced understanding of the contribution of exports to economic growth and economic modernization. Seven national case studies are presented – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia – which offer an insight into the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth.



Winner of the Vicens Vives prize for the best economic history book granted by the Spanish Economic History Association.

Editors and Affiliations

  • El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sandra Kuntz-Ficker

About the editor

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, USA. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC) and  the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). She specializes in the economic history of Mexico and Latin America from the nineteenth- through to the mid-twentieth century.

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