Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions

by David Rock (Editor)

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520368149
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/28/2021
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

David Rock is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín (California, 1987) and Authoritarian Argentina: The Nationalist Movement, Its History and Its Impact (California, 1992).

Table of Contents

War and Postwar Intersections: Latin America and the United States, David Rock

The Latin American Economies in the 1940s, Rosemary Thorp

Internal Trajectories Versus External Influences: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela, Ruth Berins Collier

ECLA and the Formation of Latin American Economic Doctrine, E. V. K. Fitzgerald

International Crises and Popular Movements in Latin America: Chile and Peru From the Great Depression to the Cold War, Paul W. Drake

The Populist Gamble of Getúlio Vargas in 1945: Social, Political, and Ideological Transformations in Brazil, John D. French

Peace in the World and Democracy at Home: The Chilean Women's Movement in the 1940s, Corinne Antezana-Pernet

Why Not Corporatism?: Redemocratization and Regime Formation in Uruguay, Fernando Lopez-Alves

Internal and External Convergence: The Collapse of Argentine Grain Farming, Daniel Lewis

The Origins of the Green Revolution in Mexico: Continuity or Change?, Joseph Cotter

Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America, Ian Roxborough