Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891

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Scholarly work dealing with Chile's nitrate industry which developed at the end of the 19th century as a foreign controlled monopoly and its lasting negative impact on the country's economic, political and social development. Has chapters: 'Merchant capital in the nitrate industry'; 'The Peruvian expropriation'; 'Elites and foreign investors - Chilean nitrate policy'; 'Expansion and foreign penetration'; 'The symbiotic relationship'; 'Men making their own history'; 'The emergence of monopoly capitalism'; 'The state in transition'