An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America

In 1982, a group of economists and economic historians met to consider the effect of the 1929 Depression on Latin America and to explain the continent's rapid recovery. That led to the 1984 Latin America in the 1930s . New members joined the group in 1997, and held a series of workshops expanding their coverage to the entire century. Those generated an overview volume Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century in 1998. The first and third of the three volumes here also emerged from those workshops, while the second volume is an update of the original 1984 study. They range between 10 and 12 articles each. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)