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Capital fictions : the literature of Latin America's export age /
Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Between 1870 and 1930, Latin American countries were incorporated into global capitalist networks like never before, mainly as exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured goods. During this Export Age, entire regions were given over to the cultivation of export commodities such as coffee and bananas, capital and labor were relocated to new production centers, and barriers to foreign investment were removed. Capital Fictions investigates the key role played by literature in imagining and interpreting the rapid transformations unleashed by Latin America's first major. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxix, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816681884 0816681880 0816679193 9780816679195 0816679207 9780816679201 9781452948317 1452948313 |