The First Export Era Revisited, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies Palgrave Studies in Economic History Series

Prologue (José Antonio Ocampo)

Chapter 1. Latin America’s First Export Era: Reassessing its Economic Contribution (Sandra Kuntz-Ficker)

Chapter 2. The Contribution of Argentine Exports to the Economy: 1875–1929 (Sandra Kuntz-Ficker and Agustina Rayes)

Chapter 3. The Bolivian Export Sector: 1870–1950 (Jose Alejandro Peres-Cajías and Anna Carreras-Marín)

Chapter 4. The Brazilian Export Economy: 1822–1913 (Christopher David Absell and Antonio Tena-Junguito)

Chapter 5. The Impact of Nitrates on the Chilean Economy: 1880–1930 (Marc Badia-Miró  and José Díaz-Bahamonde)

Chapter 6. Exports and Economic Development in Colombia – A Regional Perspective: 1830–1929 (José Antonio Ocampo and Santiago Colmenares G.)

Chapter 8. Exports and Their Impact on the Economy – The Case of Peru: 1830–1930 (Luis Felipe Zegarra)

Chapter 9. Latin America’s First Export Era: A  Preliminary Balance (Towards a New Synthesis) (Sandra Kuntz-Ficker)

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, USA. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC) and  the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). She specializes in the economic history of Mexico and Latin America from the nineteenth- through to the mid-twentieth century.

Uses a uniform set of parameters in order to assess the economic contribution of exports to Latin American economies during the period in which they followed an export-led pattern of growth

Presents new evidence that allows testing of the claims that conventional wisdom has made about Latin America during the export era

Provide tools to inductively build a new interpretive synthesis for Latin America