Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891
Details:
- Author(s) O'Brien, Thomas F
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 211pp
- Publisher New York University Press
- Place Published New York NY
Topics:
Countries:
- Chile
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
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'