| Título : | British investments in Latin America, 1822-1949 : a case study in the operations of private enterprise in retarded regions | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | J. Fred RIPPY (1916-1977) (autor) | | Lugar-Editorial-Fecha: | Minneapolis : UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS , 1959 | | Descripción física: | xii, 249 p. : tablas | | Nota general: | Con notas al pie de las páginas.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas, notas e índice analítico. | | Ubicación: | 332.673 420 8 R593b | | Temas: | INVERSIONES BRITANICAS - AMERICA LATINA
INVERSIONES EXTRANJERAS - AMERICA LATINA
INVERSIONES EXTRANJERAS - AMERICA LATINA - 1822-1949
INVERSIONES PRIVADAS
| | Contenido: | Introduction : recent problems in private international investment
The crisis and British experience in Latin America
General survey of British investments in Latin America
Early imprudence and vexation, 1822-1880
Two decades of brisk investment and an intervening depression
An analysis of investments at the end of 1913
British investments at their peak, 1928
A decade of rapid contraction
Country by country inspection of the British investment
Mexico : a story of bonanzas and heartbreaks
The small Caribbean countries : a story of meager profits
Rainbow-chasing in Northern South America
Ventures, mostly imprudent, in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru
The Chilean experience
Suprisingly profitable ventures in Uruguay
Brazil : large Latin-American recipient of British capital
Argentina : late major field of British overseas investment
The crux of the matter in global setting
A comparative sample of British overseas companies
A recent decade of income from British overseas investment
Some British views of foreign investments
Views of the Latin-American recipients
Appendix : British gas companies in Latin America
Appendix : British investments in Latin-American electric utilities |
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British investments in Latin America, 1822-1949 : a case study in the operations of private enterprise in retarded regions