La demanda de sacarosa incrementó paulatinamente a lo largo del siglo diecinueve determinada fundamentalmente por un incremento de la renta, de la población y por la sustitución de la miel por el azúcar. La producción de coloniales en el siglo XIX sustentó tanto en Java como en Cuba la...

Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and there is a lively debate concerning the explanations and timing of such high levels of income inequality. Latin America was also the region, not including European Offshoots, which experienced the most rapid growth during the first...

While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not widespread, scholars still concur that it was important and pervasive in Yucatan state during the henequen boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The henequen boom...

This paper deals with the rise and decline of slavery in the Americas, focusing on the timing and pattern of slave emancipations and the economic adjustments made to the legal ending of slavery.

The production of yerba mate was a determining factor in the colonisation of the province of Misiones (Argentina) and is a central point in its economy. The period studied here begins in 1926, when President Marcelo T. de Alvear passed a number of decrees allowing the first agricultural colonies...

This paper provides an overview of the long-term impacts of the Columbian Exchange -- that is, the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, technologies, populations, and cultures between the New World and the Old World after Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492. We focus on the...

This essay examines three recent historical approaches to the political economy of Latin America’s relative economic backwardness. All three locate the origins of contemporary underdevelopment in defective colonial institutions linked to inequality. The contrasting view offered here affirms...

La presente obra analiza diez de los principales retos que México debe enfrentar para lograr un desarrollo pleno y sostenible; un desarrollo orientado a contribuir en la construcción de un futuro promisorio para el país. Los retos analizados son: el estado de derecho y la gobernanza nacional;...

The aim of this paper is to identify different distributive patterns in the settler economies (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay) during the First Globalization (1870-1913). I present the methodological decisions, discuss my results and propose some conjectures about...

En este trabajo se analizan los principales aspectos económicos de la “desamortización de bienes de manos muertas” en Colombia, en el período 1861-1888. Las “manos muertas” eran bienes raíces, muebles, semovientes y censos (préstamos hipotecarios) que no podían ser vendidos o...