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Lewis and Able examine the economic relationship between Latin
America and the 'advanced' countries since their independence from
Spanish and Portuguese rule. They reinterpret the significance of
Latin America's external connections through juxtaposing Latin
America and the British scholars from different ideological and
intellectual backgrounds. This work is of considerable importance
in promoting comparative work in development studies of Latin
America and the Third World.
Analyzing the social consequences of recent development strategies
in Latin America, this volume introduces readers to official
strategies, private initiatives and individual responses to issues
of welfare and poverty during the 20th century. These issues are
addressed from several disciplines, using conventional economic
data to interpret social change.;An introduction is followed by a
wide range of case studies, including Pinochet's Chile, the Haiti
of the Duvaliers and Nicaragua under the Somocistas and
Sandinistas, as well as Brazil, Mexico, the Argentine, Cuba and
Columbia. Christopher Abel is co-editor with Nissa Torrents of
"Jose Marti: Revolutionary Democrat".
Argentina celebrated a century of independence from Spain in 1910,
and the republic was the tenth most important trading nation in the
global economy. Although it had the promise of growth and
industrial development at the time, crises, mismanagement, and
unrealized potential associated with authoritarianism, populism,
and military coups (culminating in thousands of "disappearances"
over a period of unparalleled state terror) prevented that from
happening. By 2001, Argentina announced that it would not service
its foreign debt, triggering the largest default in world financial
history. Since then, the country has sought to recapture the
potential and promise of the past, and its place in the world while
escaping from what appeared to be an interminable cycle of
expansion, crises, conflict, and institutional collapse. Historical
Dictionary of Argentina contains a chronology, an introduction,
appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 800
cross-referenced entries on the country's important personalities
and aspects of its politics, economy, foreign relations, religion,
and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Argentina.
From an inauspicious start as a muddy backwater of Imperial Spain
to a global trading economy, Colin M. Lewis traces the rise and
fall of Argentina in this authoritative history. At the heart of
this survey is the theme of paradox: why has a country with such
enormous economic potential, and such cultral sophistication,
suffered so badly in recent years?Focusing particularly on the 19th
and 20th centuries, the author outlines the key events, from
Independence to the dirty war, and from the Falklands conflict to
the economic and political crises of 2001. He also traces the
tumultuous careers of such figures as Rosas, Roca, the Perons and
Carlos Menem.Offering an insight into Argentina, this text explores
the paradoxes of economic growth and instability, of corruption and
democracy, of aspiration, achievement and disillusionment that
characterize this land of the conquistadores.
Lewis examines the complex combinations of British and Argentine
forces involved in the rapid development of modern Argentina after
its former pastoral and parochial socio-economic structure was
superseded by the formation of a modern republic, which was largely
financed by external sources and made it one of the most dynamic
and prosperous countries of the mid and late 19th century. His work
demonstrates the conflicting, often contradictory, expectations of
the parties concerned, and how these divergent expectations and
preconceptions were successfully harmonised and evolved.
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