Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Desertion in Global History -- Introduction: Leaving Work Across the World -- Notes -- 1 Runaways: A Global History -- When labour market met military...

The historical context -- Two centuries of South American reflections on the development gap between the United States and Latin America / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- Looking at them: a Mexican perspective on the gap with the United States / Enrique Krauze -- Explaining Latin America's lagging...

This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict arising between "peripheral" minority groups and a dominant "center". We propose an index of linguistic conflict that (i) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii)...