Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Tables and Figures ix
5. Contributors xiii
6. I. Introduction: Economic Growth and Latin American Economic Historiography 1
7. 2. Economic Development in Brazil, 1822-1913 34
8. 3. A Macroeconomic Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century Mexico 65
9. 4. Transport Improvements and Economic Growth in Brazil and Mexico 93
10. 5. Obstacles to the Development of Capital Markets in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 118
11. 6. Financial Markets and Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Governmental Regulation, Financial Innovation, and Industrial Structure in Brazil and Mexico, I840-1930 146
12. 7. Reassessing the Prospects for Profit in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Agriculture from a Regional Perspective: Michoacán, 1810-60 179
13. 8. Mexican National Income in the Era of lndependence, 1800-40 216
14. 9. The Economic Consequences ofBrazilian Independence 243
15. 10. Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States 260
16. Index 307