The Latin American economies : growth and the export sector, 1880-1930 / edited by Roberto Cortâes Conde and Shane J. Hunt ; contributors, Joao Manoel Cardoso de Mello ... [et al.].

This volume was produced as the result of a collaborative project sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The transition to economic growth in Colombia / by William Paul McGreevy -- The capitalist export economy in Brazil, 1884-1930 / by Joao Manoel Cardoso de Mello and Maria da Conceicäao Tavares -- The growth of the nitrate industry and socio-economic change in Chile, 1880-1930 / by Carmen Cariola and Osvaldo Sunkel -- Growth and guano in nineteenth century Peru / by Shane J. Hunt -- The Argentine export economy, 1880-1920 / by Roberto Cortâes-Conde.