...Lawrence A. Clayton Perhaps the most important message in this 1985 issue was best summarized by Thomas F. O’Brien in his piece on “Dependency Revisited: A Review Essay.” Increasingly, business historians are “probing the inner workings of Latin American economics and business practices...

...Shoshana Tancer Business and Legal Aspects of Latin American Trade and Investment . Edited by Shea Donald R. and Swacker Frank W. . Milwaukee , 1976 . The University of Wisconsin . Tables. Graphs. Appendix . Pp. xix , 219 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press...

... felt that this country, from a story I saw in the paper a couple of days ago, was dominated by the business community and that the Government was dominated by business. That will come as a great shock and a source of pleasure to the business community here in the United States.” 1 At the time...

...Susan Gauss Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Government in Mexico, 1854–1940 . By Wasserman Mark . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2015 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 257 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press...

...Steve Striffler Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899 – 2000 . By Bucheli Marcelo . New York : New York University Press , 2005 . Maps. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 241 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . © 2006 by Duke University Press...

... of describing what he terms Mexican “business etiquette” and the “culture of friendship” involved in the process. Those practices would be called graft and corruption by the revolutionaries who exploded in discontent in 1910. Until then, however, it is clear that the Porfirians were much more worried about US...

... squads in Latin America, while Colby documents Central American Ku Klux Klan activity. The interweaving of murderous white power that joins the United States and Latin America is a vast field of study, and The Business of Empire does the critical work of keeping this history in the domain of public...

...Thomas F. O'Brien Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries . Edited by Dávila Carlos and Miller Rory . Translated by Mills Garry and Miller Rory . Liverpool Latin American Studies, New Series 1 . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press...

...Thomas F. O’Brien Yankee Don’t Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture,and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920–1950 . By Moreno Julio . The Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2003...

...David G. Lafrance A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property and Community in Papantla, Mexico . By Kourí Emilio . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2004 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 389 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright...

...Magdalena Candioti British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture, and Identity in Bahia, 1808 – 1850 . By Guenther Louise H. . Oxford : University of Oxford , 2004 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 211 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2006 by Duke...

...David Geggus The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century . By Stein Robert Louis . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1988 . Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 185 . Cloth . $27.50 . Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Author...

... international business operations developed for Singer” (p. 179). Written in clear prose, the book has a solid grounding in primary sources. The author demonstrates a mastery of the methodologies and historiographies of international business history and gender history to develop interpretations...

...Russell E. Smith Strategies for Business in Mexico: Free Trade and the Emergence of North America, Inc . By Nevaer Louis E. V. . Westport : Quorum Books , 1995 . Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 212 pp. Cloth . $55.00 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

... children and on surviving family letters. Unfortunately the letters (1924–35) postdate most of his career and do not tell us much about his business, politics, or social relations on a frontier where his work force included many Paraguayan Indians. A family tree and a map of Mato Grosso would have made...

...Eric Van Young Colonial Entrepreneurs: Families and Business in Bourbon Mexico City . By Kicza John E. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1983 . Tables. Map. Illustrations. Appendix. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 313 . Cloth . $24.95...

... the participation of a new group formerly proscribed from that jealously guarded domain. Armed with powerful advantages—access to venture capital, business acumen, and appreciable political influence—private investors, the empresarios , successfully challenged the hegemony of traditional interest groups...

...Doris M. Ladd Kinship, Business, and Politics: The Martínez del Río Family in Mexico, 1823-1867 . By Walker David W. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 278 . Cloth . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...