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The first colonial exploitation was of the pearl oysters of the "Pearl Islands". Spain established its first permanent South American settlement in the present-day city of Cumaná in 1502, and in 1577 Caracas became the capital of the Province of Venezuela. There was also for a few years a German colony at Klein-Venedig.
La cuestión colonial y la economía clásica. De Adam Smith y Jeremy Bentham a Karl Marx, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1989. Argentina, 1946-1983. The economy ministers speak (co-edited with Guido di Tella), London, Macmillan, 1990. Encuentro con Karl Popper (co-edited with Pedro Schwartz and Fernando Méndez Ibisate), Madrid, Alianza Editorial ...
Evolution of GDP growth. The economic history of Argentina is one of the most studied, owing to the "Argentine paradox". As a country, it had achieved advanced development in the early 20th century but experienced a reversal relative to other developed economies, which inspired an enormous wealth of literature and diverse analysis on the causes of this relative decline. [2]
Sergio Bagú (January 10, 1911 – December 2, 2002) was an Argentine Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher.. Bagú, who was born in Buenos Aires, was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. [1]
The company's seat in Cagua. The company began operating in 1730—four ships departed from San Sebastián (Donostia) taking on board a crew of 561 and 40–50 cannons. The vessels were hailed with frontal hostility by the Venezuelan Creoles, a refusal to sell cocoa to the company, and an uprising against the newcomers and the local Spanish garrison, until control was re-established.
Del altiplano al desierto. La construcción de espacios y la gestación de un conflicto. Bolivia, Chile y Perú desde fines de la colonia a la primera mitad del siglo XIX (2007) Circulando mercaderías, construyendo una economía: Historia del comercio en Chile, siglos XVIII-XX. Del comercio colonial a los centros comerciales actuales (2010)
Map of Latin America showing modern political divisions. Latin America as a region has multiple nation-states, with varying levels of economic complexity. The Latin American economy is an export-based economy consisting of individual countries in the geographical regions of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
In the period following Oliver Cromwell's fall in England, the colony grew and transitioned to a slave economy. It saw the beginnings of industry and urbanization. At the turn of the eighteenth century, King William's War (1689–1697) and Queen Anne's War (1702–1714) brought Maryland into depression again as European demand for tobacco decreased sharply.