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Empire in Retreat
The Past, Present, and Future of the United States
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Victor Bulmerand#8211
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21000-2, ISBN: 0-300-21000-0

"A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empiremdash;and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer‑Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to the nationrsquo;s current imperial retreat, th ..."






The Economic History of Latin America since Independence(2nd Edition)
(Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Alan Knight
Paperback, 506 Pages, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-53274-7, ISBN: 0-521-53274-4

"Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that has most concerned policy-makers in Latin America: how to tra ..."






The Economic History of Latin America since Independence(3rd Edition)
(Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Paperback, 626 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-60855-9, ISBN: 1-107-60855-4

"This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the United States and explores the reaso ..."






The Economic History of Latin America since Independence(3rd Edition)
(Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 626 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02690-2, ISBN: 1-107-02690-3

"This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the United States and explores the reaso ..."






The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Paperback, 728 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-14560-2, ISBN: 0-521-14560-0

"This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century ( The Age of Free Trade ); the second considers the period up to 1960 ( The Age of Preferences ); and the final section concerns the half century from the Cub ..."






Britain and Latin America(1st Edition)
A Changing Relationship
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-05495-9, ISBN: 0-521-05495-8

"British relations with Latin America have declined dramatically. The strength of British influence in Latin America in the nineteenth century could not be sustained as a consequence of the two world wars, the intervening depression and the emergence of the United States of America as the major power in the region. Since 1945, despite opportunities to re-establish its presence, Britain has seen a further decline in its relations with Lat ..."






Britain and Latin America
A Changing Relationship
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1989 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37205-3, ISBN: 0-521-37205-4

"British relations with Latin America have declined dramatically. The strength of British influence in Latin America in the nineteenth century could not be sustained as a consequence of the two world wars, the intervening depression and the emergence of the United States of America as the major power in the region. Since 1945, despite opportunities to re-establish its presence, Britain has seen a further decline in its relations with Lat ..."






The Economic History of Latin America since Independence
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 505 Pages, Published 1995 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-36329-7, ISBN: 0-521-36329-2

"The Economic History of Latin America seeks to explain why, despite the region's abundance of natural resources and a favourable ratio of land to labour, not a single republic of Latin America has achieved the status of a developed country after nearly two centuries free from colonial rule. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the early 1990s, this book provides a comprehensive, balanced portrait of the factors aff ..."






The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America(1st Edition)
Volume 2, The Long Twentieth Century
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John Coatsworth, Roberto Cortes-Conde
Hardcover, 764 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-81290-0, ISBN: 0-521-81290-9

"Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth from the last decades of the nineteenth century to 1930. It explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Fi ..."






The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars(Updated)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 730 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-19889-9, ISBN: 0-521-19889-5

"This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century ( The Age of Free Trade ); the second considers the period up to 1960 ( The Age of Preferences ); and the final section concerns the half century from the Cub ..."






Cambridge Economic History of Latin America 2 Volume Hardback Set(Updated)
by John Coatsworth, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Roberto Cortés Conde, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover, 1,500 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-85716-1, ISBN: 0-521-85716-3

"Provides access to the current state of expert knowledge about Latin America's economic past from the Spanish conquest to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It includes work from diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies from qualitative historical analysis of policies and institutions to cliometrics, the new institutional economics, and environmental sciences. Each chapter provides a comparative analysis of economi ..."






Rebuilding the State
Mexico After Salinas
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Monica Serrano
Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1996 by The Institute Of Latin American Studies, University Of London
ISBN-13: 978-1-900039-03-1, ISBN: 1-900039-03-6






The Political Economy of Central America since 1920
(Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Alan Knight
Paperback, 444 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34839-3, ISBN: 0-521-34839-0

"In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and social development in the five Central American republics from 1920. He examines in detail variations in economic policy between countries which help to account for differences in performance. The major political developments are woven into the analysis and linked to changes in internal and external conditions. Gr ..."






The Political Economy of Central America since 1920(1st Edition)
(Cambridge Latin American Studies, Band 63)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34284-1, ISBN: 0-521-34284-8

"In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and social development in the five Central American republics from 1920. He examines in detail variations in economic policy between countries which help to account for differences in performance. The major political developments are woven into the analysis and linked to changes in internal and external conditions. Gr ..."






The United States and Latin America
The New Agenda (Series on Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, James Dunkerley
Paperback, 371 Pages, Published 1999 by David Rockefeller Center For Latin American Studies
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-92596-0, ISBN: 0-674-92596-3

" The end of the Cold War removed hemispheric security from the top of the agenda of U.S.-Latin American relations. Democracy, trade and investment, drugs, and migration rose in importance. Pressures to eliminate the anachronistic U.S. embargo on Cuba increased. The new agenda also includes Latin America's growing ties to the countries of the European Union and other regions. This book contains fifteen essays by distinguished U.S., L ..."






History and Society in Central America(1st Edition)
(LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)
by Edelberto Torres Rivas, Douglass Sullivan-González, Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78131-3, ISBN: 0-292-78131-8

"First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretacion del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available in English. The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s. Using a dependency framework, but not limited by it, Torres Rivas describes the various divisions of ..."






Cambridge Latin American Studies
The Economic History of Latin America since Independence 77
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Published 2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-511-05614-7, ISBN: 0-511-05614-1






The Economic History of Latin America since Independence(2nd Edition)
(Cambridge Latin American Studies)
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Blumer-Thomas Victor
Hardcover, 506 Pages, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-82567-2, ISBN: 0-521-82567-9

"Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that has most concerned policy-makers in Latin America: how to tra ..."






Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Who Will Benefit?
by Nikki Craske, Monica Serrano, Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 1994 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-12176-1, ISBN: 0-312-12176-8

"The integration scheme between Mexico, Canada and the United States represents the first time that a developing country has been linked to developed countries in a free-trade agreement. Given the differences in wage rates and relative prices between Mexico and its new partners a big change in the allocation of resources can be anticipated throughout the Mexican economy. This will create gains and losses as well as numerous political pro ..."






Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement(1st Edition)
Who Will Benefit?
by Nikki Craske, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Monica Serrano
Hardcover, 275 Pages, Published 2007 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-61213-2, ISBN: 0-333-61213-2

"The integration scheme between Mexico, Canada and the United States represents the first time that a developing country has been linked to developed countries in a free-trade agreement. Given the differences in wage rates and relative prices between Mexico and its new partners a big change in the allocation of resources can be anticipated throughout the Mexican economy. This will create gains and losses as well as numerous political pro ..."



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