Chilean Rural Society: From the Spanish Conquest to 1930

by Arnold J. Bauer

• ISBN13: 9780521101752
• ISBN10: 0521101751
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book attempts to place in historical perspective the evolution of Chilean rural society from its foundation in the sixteenth century to 1975 and especially to explain the unusual result of accelerated economic growth after 1860. The study is placed in the broader context of general Chilean development and the rise of the Atlantic market. Professor Bauer also points out the connections and similarities between the Chilean case and other areas peripheral to the expanding world economy. Chapters are devoted to markets, prices and credit, but the main part of the book is concerned with the social and political impact of economic expansion on rural workers and the land-owning classes. A detailed explanation of agrarian structure and the position and importance of landlord and peon within national development is essential for an understanding of modern Latin America. This book is a contribution to that understanding and people interested in other times and places will find in the experience of Chile an instructive contrast in the larger pattern on modern history.

Table of Contents

Rural settlement and agrarian society to the early nineteenth century

Town and country in 1850

Economic expansion: the impact of the Atlantic economy

Capital, credit and technology in the rural economy

Agriculture, tenure patterns and agrarian structure

Lower rural society from 1850 to 1930

Landowners in Chilean society

Santiago and the countryside 1910

Conclusion and epilogue

Appendices

Sources

Index

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