{"product_id":"latin-american-economic-history-9781032224343","title":"Latin American Economic History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development\u003c\/i\u003e guides readers through significant features and developments in the region's economic history from independence through 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn approachable language, the book introduces readers to relevant New Economic History concepts and explains important characteristics of Latin America, such as the region's high volatility, rapid urbanization experience, the continued prominence of commodities, and its culture of informality. The volume provides explicit connections between culture, politics, and economics over five distinct time periods. Readers will learn how Cinco de Mayo featured into foreign debt repayments in the nineteenth century, how novels like Gabriel García Márquez's\u003ci\u003e One Hundred Years of Solitude \u003c\/i\u003ereflected on the expansion of railroads during a period of export-led growth, and how a United States federal reserve interest hike in 1979 sent the region into the Lost De\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018910859607,"sku":"9781032224343","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032224343.jpg?v=1750778628","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latin-american-economic-history-9781032224343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}