Between Silver and Guano : : Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru / / Paul Eliot Gootenberg.

This study of Peru's transformation from a tottering colonial economy based on extraction of precious bullion to a massive exporter of bulk goods like guano shows how a struggle between protectionists and free traders shaped the state. "This is an elegant and sophisticated book that can be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1989
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1013
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction: From Nationalist Elites to a Liberal
  • CHAPTER 2. Beleaguered Liberals
  • CHAPTER 3. The Protection of Elites
  • CHAPTER 4. Nationalist Caudillo Politics and Liberal State-Building
  • CHAPTER 5. Fiscal Politics: From National to Liberal Finance
  • CHAPTER 6. Conclusions: Nationalism, Dependency, and the Peruvian Nation-State
  • STATISTICAL APPENDIXES
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX