bradford l. barham is assistant professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His current research examines the impact of trade liberalization on the structure and performance of agriculture in Mexico, Central America, and the United States.
oliver t. coomes is assistant professor of geography at McGill University. He completed his doctorate in 1992 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and currently is pursuing his research interests in historical and contemporary economic livelihood practices of Amazonian peasants, adaptive responses of traditional peoples to environmental change, and rural economic development and environmental conservation in Latin America.
bernard grunberg is in charge of the Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies at Strasbourg University. He obtained his doctorat d’état at the Sorbonne. He has written some 20 articles for such publications as Revista de Indias; Histoire, Economie, et Société; L’Information Historique; and Revue des Etudes Juives. His book L’Univers des con quistadores: les hommes et leur conquête dans le Mexique du XVIe Siècle was published in 1993.
gina l. hames is a doctoral candidate in history at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently writing her dissertation, “Bolivian Chicheras and the Role of Gender in Latin American Development, 1880–1932,” which examines Chola culture in Andean society. She completed her research in Bolivia with assistance from a Fulbright fellowship.
erick d. langer is associate professor of Latin American history at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984. He is the author of Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia (1989) and coeditor, with Robert H. Jackson, of The New Latin American Mission History (forthcoming). Currently he is working on a study of market systems in the south-central Andes between 1830 and 1930.
alfonso w. quiroz is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. He has published four books, the most recent titled Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru, 1850–1950 : Financing Visions of Development (1993) and Deudas olvidadas: instrumentos de crédito en la economía colonial peruana, 1750—1820 (1993). Currently he is studying the socioeconomic bases of nationalism in Cuba during the nineteenth century.
