Chilean Rural Society : From the Spanish Conquest to 1930 Hardback
by Arnold J. Bauer
Part of the Cambridge Latin American Studies series
Hardback
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This book attempts to place in historical perspective the evolution of Chilean rural society from its foundation in the sixteenth century to 1975 and especially to explain the unusual result of accelerated economic growth after 1860.
The study is placed in the broader context of general Chilean development and the rise of the Atlantic market.
Professor Bauer also points out the connections and similarities between the Chilean case and other areas peripheral to the expanding world economy.
Chapters are devoted to markets, prices and credit, but the main part of the book is concerned with the social and political impact of economic expansion on rural workers and the land-owning classes.
A detailed explanation of agrarian structure and the position and importance of landlord and peon within national development is essential for an understanding of modern Latin America.
This book is a contribution to that understanding and people interested in other times and places will find in the experience of Chile an instructive contrast in the larger pattern on modern history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:273 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1975
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- ISBN:9780521207270
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:273 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1975
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- ISBN:9780521207270
