Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective

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Notes

1. James Lockhard and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America: A history of colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

2. Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, ‘Factor endowments, institutions, and differential paths of growth among New World economies.’ In How Latin America fell behind, ed. Stephen Haber (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).

3. Douglass C. North and Robert P. Thomas, The rise of the Western World: A new economic history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973); Adam Przeworski, ‘The last instance: Are institutions the primary cause of economic development?’ European Journal of Sociology or Archives Europeennes de Sociologie 45 (2004) 2: 165–88.

4. For example, Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin, ‘The Spanish Empire and its legacy: Fiscal redistribution and political conflict in colonial and post-colonial Spanish America.’ Journal of Global History (2006) 1: 241–67.

5. Timithy P. Moran and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, Unveiling inequality: A world-historical perspective (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009).

6. See Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, eds., Indelible inequalities in Latin America: Insights from history, politics, and culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010); the venerable economic historian John H. Coatsworth has also moved in this direction: ‘Inequality, institutions, and economic growth in Latin America.’ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (2008): 545–69.