Historia empresarial en América Latina: Temas, debates y problemas is commendable primarily for its transnational scope. Tracing developments in business organization and entrepreneurship across different countries of the American continent south of the US border, the book explores issues of strategy and business form in the long term. Substantial chapters examine how colonial times shaped later business endeavors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting themes of key local and transnational significance for historians including violence and gender. Undoubtedly, such wide-ranging scholarship will stimulate new research collaborations worldwide in business history, economic history, and beyond.
The book fills a long-lasting gap in business history, which, despite gaining international prominence in the 1990s, has lacked a seminal text summarizing the essential themes, organizations, periodizations, and sources that researchers should know when examining the history of enterprises and entrepreneurs in Latin America. Moreover, scholars and instructors of capitalism both in Latin America...
