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Recent Trends in the Business History of Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

James P. Baughman
James P. Baughman
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It would be folly to defend the conception “Latin America” too strongly. In a large area of twenty-odd republics, diverse in geography, resources, and ideologies, and where personalismo has been both a national and individual creed, generalizations tend to crumble when wielded too forcibly. Yet there are common ties of hemisphere, colonial heritage, language, law, and, to some extent, experience. The history of “Latin America” and its constituents is a recognized field of endeavor and will always sustain further study.

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Business History Review , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , Winter 1965 , pp. 425 - 438
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1965

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