This week’s topic discusses how the history of the Latin American continent was shaped by the role exportation played in the economics of its countries, as well as all the socio-cultural changes that came from an increasingly connected and interdependent world economy. The chapter takes a close look at the place Latin American countries occupied […]
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This week’s topic discusses how the history of the Latin American continent was shaped by the role exportation played in the economics of its countries, as well as all the socio-cultural changes that came from an increasingly connected and interdependent world economy. The chapter takes a close look at the place Latin American countries occupied […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with economic development, export boom, international division of labour
The Export Boom as Modernity Alec Dawson, a professor of History from Simon Fraser Univerity defined ‘modernity’ in Latin America (with a focus on Mexico) is from the 16th century and the following 5 centuries. In addition, he claimed that … Continue reading →
Dawson discusses modernity and how it was an export driven process by which some of the population gained more than other sectors, further creating disparities among the population of Latin America. An interesting comparison I drew from this week to a previous week was the introduction of photography in Latin America and how it was […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with commodities, economy, modernity, modernization, photographs
This weeks topic of modernity and exportation was very interesting to me. I always heard about Latin America’s big exports such as coffee, tobacco, and rubber, but I never realized the bigger picture behind it all. The scale of Latin America’s role in global trade was truly astonishing. Firstly, I would like to touch on […]
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Dawson discusses modernity and how it was an export driven process by which some of the population gained more than other sectors, further creating disparities among the population of Latin America. An interesting comparison I drew from this week to a previous week was the introduction of photography in Latin America and how it was […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with commodities, economy, modernity, modernization, photographs
This weeks topic of modernity and exportation was very interesting to me. I always heard about Latin America’s big exports such as coffee, tobacco, and rubber, but I never realized the bigger picture behind it all. The scale of Latin America’s role in global trade was truly astonishing. Firstly, I would like to touch on […]
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Once again, I am absolutely fascinated by what we’re learning this week. I think that it is so interesting learning about the history of Latin America, especially because in high school all I was taught was the history of Europe, Canada, and a little bit of the United States. My education has been very focussed […]
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This week we looked at Latin America post independence and post-caudillo when national governments began to play a bigger role in the state. As a result of the long periods of civil war, caudillo rule, and general lack of state-governed order that ensued after independence, many Latin American states were left with poor conditions: states […]
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This week we looked at Latin America post independence and post-caudillo when national governments began to play a bigger role in the state. As a result of the long periods of civil war, caudillo rule, and general lack of state-governed order that ensued after independence, many Latin American states were left with poor conditions: states […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Creelman, democracy, Diaz, export boom, government, modernity, positivism
