In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the fundamental changes that have occurred since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982. These changes have included the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in national history. This second edition brings this story through the first administration of the first self-proclaimed Indian president in national history and the major changes that the government of Evo Morales has introduced in Bolivian society, politics and economics.

This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule of law? The answer to those questions lies in the ways in which Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with the stroke of a pen. Moreover, they represent powerful constraints on the ability of the Mexican government to fund welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights.

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This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. IN THE RECENT RESURGENCE OF INTEREST in slavery and slave societies in America,price data have been a fundamental source for historical and economic analyses of the nature of the slave economy. Following the work of Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer on "The Economics of Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South" (1958), scholars have attempted to make inferences about the behavior, expectations, and beliefs of planters through an analysis of the pattern of changes in the price of slaves over time. Slave prices reflected the expectations of planters about a slave's net productivity and the period over which a slave would be productive. The output of the slave, the market value of the goods and services produced, and the value of the goods consumed by the slave all influenced net productivity. The period over which a slave was expected to be productive was determined by the anticipated lifetime of the individual slave and, important for slave societies in the mid-nineteenth century, the expected duration of slavery as a system of labor control.Despite their importance, surprisingly little systematic price data is available other than the crucial series developed for slave markets in the United States.' Only recently have series been generated systematically for other large American slave All of the Cuban documents used in this article are housed at the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Fondo "Escribanias" (Judiciales). They were selected by a historical studies group headed by ManuLel Moreno Fraginals. The initial data processing was carried out in the Centro de Computaci6n del Poder Popular de la Ciudad de Habana under the technical direction of Ivan Lejardi, whose collaboration and valuable suggestions are greatly appreciated. Further technical assistance was provided by Tito Diaz. Subsequent processing of the data was carried out by the co-authors at the computing centers at Columbia University and the University of Rochester, with the help of James Irwin.

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This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural traditional agriculture society with only light industry and low levels of human capital to a modern literate and industrial nation. It has also transformed itself into one of the world's most important agricultural exporters. How and why this occurred is explained in this important survey.