Books in the Social Science History series

This work evaluates the legacy of James Madison as the product of a scholarly politician - a politician who thought carefully about institutions in the context of action. It brings together thoughtful responses to Madison and his theory from a broad cross-section of modern political science.

In the 1950s-80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "e;developing"e; countries, initially concentrated in the state of Sao Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing Sao Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated industrialization of the state and its subsequent shift to a service economy amidst worsening social and economic inequality.Through its cultural institutions, universities, banking, and corporate sectors, the municipality of So Paulo would become a world metropolis. At the same time, given its rapid growth from 2 million to 12 million residents in this period, So Paulo dealt with problems of distribution, housing, and governance. This significant volume elucidates these and other trends during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and will be an invaluable reference for scholars of history, policy, and the economy in Latin America.

This comprehensive history of the population and economy of the state of Sao Paulo in its century of rapid growth examines how the state transformed from a frontier province of little importance to one of the most important agricultural and industrial regions of the world.

This book explains how skill-driven economic constraints and unions' organizational power have produced long-term continuity in diverse national-level labor codes in Latin America, even in the face of significant efforts at reform by political leaders.

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized.

This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress.

Political Institutions and Financial Development demonstrates that political institutions are the primary drivers of a country's financial system and that getting politics right is essential to creating a healthy financial system and a vibrant economy.

The authors in this edited volume examine the political economy of the history of Congress by showing how changes in Congressional practices and institutions are related to key economic and political events.

The authors in this edited volume examine the political economy of the history of Congress by showing how changes in Congressional practices and institutions are related to key economic and political events.

This book evaluates the legacy of James Madison as a politician who thought carefully about institutions in the context of action. It brings together responses to Madison and his theory from a cross-section of modern political science, and views Madison not as an icon or mouthpiece of an era, but as a "modern" political scientist .

This book offers a new perspective on the history of Argentina by studying economics through the lens of traditionally non-economic perspectives, such as the importance of politics, consumerist culture, women, paternalism, nation-building, and ideology.

This book explains why countries, especially developing countries, change their trade policies over the course of history. It does so through an interdisciplinary approach which borrows analyses from both political science and economics.

Measuring Up uses new research tools and an interdisciplinary approach to provide the most in-depth analysis to date of role that governmental policies played in shaping levels of poverty, malnutrition, and inequality in Mexico between 1850 and 1950.

This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress.

Studying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth.

Studying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth.

Challenging the standard view of the Porfirian state as dominated by personalist politics, foreign financial interests, and a disadvantageous export economy, this book argues that beginning in the 1890s, the Mexican government adopted a coherent set of economic policies explicitly designed to foster Mexican industry, notably manufacturing.

Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries.

Using the Mexico of the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a test case, this book provides both a theory and methodology for the study of policy credibility in dictatorships.

A history of the society and economy of Sao Paulo from its origins to the introduction of coffee in the mid-19th century.

This study presents a new and provocative picture of the impact of railroads on the Brazilian economy. How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the "new economic history" to the study of Brazilian railway development.

This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.

Political Institutions and Financial Development demonstrates that political institutions are the primary drivers of a country's financial system and that getting politics right is essential to creating a healthy financial system and a vibrant economy.

Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. This book asks whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences.

This volume follows the Mexican financial system from the assumption of power by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 to the recovery of the domestic banking system in the 1920s, despite ongoing violence and political instability.

Examining repartimiento production of cochineal, a dyestuff produced exclusively by Oaxacan Indians and representing Mexico's most valued export after silver, this study shows that Indians produced cochineal for the market voluntarily because it provided them with needed income.