Review by Choice Review
The quality of these essays, most of them by the relatively new group of British Latin Americanists and Latin Americans who have done their university work in Britain, is a tribute to the quality of recent Latin American studies in the UK. Much of the discussion is concerned with the ``dependency'' theories upon which a lot of the analysis of Latin America's relations with the rest of the world has centered in recent years. The first section has essays attacking dependency notions, and surveying their evolution since the late 1960s. Subsequent sections deal with specific topics concerning relations of various Latin American countries with the world market. A wide variety of issues and situations is dealt with, stretching from the decades immediately following independence to the period since WW II. Among the subjects are such diverse things as trends toward protection of industry in Mexico, the role of railway construction in Argentine and Brazilian industrialization before the Depression, the relationship of British investors and the Batllista regime in Uruguay, the significance of the Roca-Runciman agreement for Argentine economic development, the continuing importance of primary-products exports in Latin America, and the role of transnational corporations in the food processing industries of Latin America. University-level collections.-R.J. Alexander, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus
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Review by Choice Review
