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Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America (eBook, PDF)

A Transnational History of Profits and Repression

Redaktion: Basualdo, Victoria; Bucheli, Marcelo; Berghoff, Hartmut

Beschreibung

This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru), as well as a comparative analysis of the banking sector in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay). The third section presents six case studies of large companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Central America. This book is crucial reading because it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key yet understudied topic in Cold War history in Latin America.

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Victoria Basualdo is Researcher at the Argentine National Scientific Council (CONICET) and at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), and Professor in the Political Economy Master's Degree Program at FLACSO, Argentina. She specializes in contemporary economic and labor history, with special focus on structural changes and the transformations of trade-union organizations in Argentina and Latin America. Hartmut Berghoff is Director of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was the Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC (2008-2015) and held various visiting positions at the Center of Advanced Study, Harvard Business School, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and the Henley Business School. He has worked on the history of consumption, business history, immigration history and the history of modern Germany.  Marcelo Bucheli is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research focuses on the political economy of multinational corporations in Latin America, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the relationship between firms and states in a historical perspective, and business groups. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030439255
• Artikelnr.: 61802956

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"Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America represents not only a praiseworthy collaboration between scholars based in Latin America, the United States, and Europe but also a truly interdisciplinary and richly documented investigative effort to provide new knowledge and, perhaps more importantly, directions and perspectives for future work in the field. ... Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America fulfills its promise to provide an interdisciplinary collective analysis of corporate interests and dictatorships." (Rafael R. Ioris, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 102 (3), 2022)