b. j. barickman is assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona. He will spend the first semester of 1995 as a visiting scholar in the master’s program in history at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.
robert h. duncan is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation deals with the economic role of the state during Mexico’s Second Empire, 1864-1867.
carlos marichal received his doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1977. He is currently professor in the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México. His research has concentrated on the comparative economic history of Latin America. He is the author of A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930 (1989).
matilde souto mantecón received her licenciatura and maestría in history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation at El Colegio de México. Her research has focused on the history of Veracruz and its merchant community in the eighteenth century. She is professor and researcher at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City and coeditor of the new research bulletin America Latina en la Historia Económica.
