Bücher der Reihe LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series

A study of the 1930s dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia and the inter-American peace conference that settled it.

The first book in English to study in depth the remarkable convention that produced the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

How men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment.

Based on extensive primary source material, this overview of the Brazilian republican state demonstrates that it was one of the most interventionist in Latin America well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929.

This volume of six essays makes readily available to English-speaking readers a selection of significant contributions by outstanding Mexican economists, dealing with the mid-twentieth-century growth of the Mexican economy.

This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in Sao Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.

A study of a group of earlier Spaniards in America.

An examination of the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in Cordoba, Argentina's most important interior city, between the 1870s and World War I.

A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry.

This book examines the relationship between economic development and equality in twentieth century Mexico.

The dramatic change in attitudes toward immigration in Chile and Argenitna during the quarter century preceding World War I is the subject of this study.

This study, based primarily on previously unavailable private records of sugarcane plantations, examines the external and internal dynamics of the sugar industry.

This book sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience of migration in historical perspective by examining the macro-level factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina.

The results of an empirical investigation designed to produce instruments to measure personal values that have been central variables in the theory of modernization of societies, using Brazil and Mexico as examples.

In this study, Marvin Goldwert interprets the rise, growth, and development of militarism in Argentina from 1930 to 1966.

Folk customs of the mid-twentieth century in a village in Coahuila.

This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists.

These eight essays trace the establishment and implementation of the Mexican electoral system, both national and municipal, and of reforms in the economic, journalistic, religious, and military systems.

Based on extended interviews at the Culipran fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action.

Richard B. Lindley's study of Guadalajara's wealthy citizens on the eve of independence contradicts the view that the wars for independence arose from creole-peninsular resentment.

A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.

This book analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in ta Peruvian region as it underwent socioeconomic development through a period of recurring natural disasters.

Why a particular region in Colombia played such a strong role in the country's economic history.

A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.

A study of Spanish Republican emigres who fled from Spain to Mexico in 1939-1940.