Latin America in the 1930s

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Rosemary Thorp

   Pages 1-16

3. Latin America in the 1930s

   • Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro

   Pages 17-49

4. From an Export-led to an Import-substituting Economy: Chile 1914–39

   • Gabriel Palma

   Pages 50-80

5. The Effect of the Great Depression on the Economies of Peru and Colombia

   • Rosemary Thorp, Carlos Londoño

   Pages 81-116

6. The Colombian Economy in the 1930s

   • Jose Antonio Ocampo

   Pages 117-143

7. Argentina and Brazil during the 1930s: The Impact of British and American International Economic Policies

   • Marcelo De Paiva Abreu

   Pages 144-162

8. Before the Depression: Brazilian Industry in the 1920s

   • Flavio Rabelo Versiani

   Pages 163-187

9. Argentina into the Depression: Problems of an Open Economy

   • Arturo O’connell

   Pages 188-221

10. The Great Depression and Industrialisation The Case of Mexico

    • Enrique Cárdenas

    Pages 222-241

11. Restructuring through the Depression: The State and Capital Accumulation in Mexico, 1925–40

    • E. V. K. FitzGerald

    Pages 242-278

12. Central America in the Inter-War Period

    • Victor Bulmer-Thomas

    Pages 279-314

13. The 1929 World Depression in Latin America — from the Outside

    • Charles P. Kindleberger

    Pages 315-329

14. Back Matter

    Pages 331-344

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This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty 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.

• Brazil
• Economic History
• Export
• Great Depression
• Import

• Oxford University, UK

  Rosemary Thorp

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.

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