| Session 59-- | Latin America and global trade: commodity chains from the colonial regime to the present |
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Title: Latin America and global trade: commodity chains from the colonial regime to the present Organizers:
Carlos Marichal (Mexico) and Steven Topik (USA)
Description
of the session: The purpose of this session, to be held in the Congress of the International Association of Economic History in Buenos Aires in July, 2002, is to explore the origins of commodity chains in world trade by focusing sprecifically on the products exported from Latin America over the centuries.
Our concern in promoting this theme as a major subject for future research and debate is derived from the general observation that a majority of studies on export commodities in Latin American economic history tend to focus on local or regional factors to explain export trends and often miss the opportunity of demonstrating how important international demand has been in the creation of ever wider trade patterns and dynamics. In this sense, the historical analysis of the construction of international commodity chains can contribute in a forceful way to the understanding of old and new globalization trends.
The specific purpose of the session is to suggest the need to focus more importance on two variables in the history of export commodities in Latin American economic history:
(1) the first is the need to better understand external demand (particularly in Europe and the Unites States) as a fundamental variable which impelled the increase of local production (supply) of those commodities that became leading exports at different points in time.
(2) the second is the need to further integrate studies of Latin American trade with world history by focusing on the construction of commodity chains, which are today driving the extraordinary expansion of international commerce. Participants:
Laura Nater (University of Puerto Rico), Carlos Marichal (El Colegio de México), Dennis Kortheuer (California State University, Long Beach), Steven C. Topik (University of California at Irvine) and Mario Samper (University of Costa Rica), Rory Miller (University of Liverpool) and Robert Greenhill (University of London), Alan Wells (University of Bowdoin), David McGreery (Georgia State University), Hilda Sabato (University of Buenos Aires), Marcelo Bucheli (Stanford University), Zephyr Frank (Stanford University) and Aldo Musacchio, Mary Anne Mahoney (University of Notre Dame), Paul Gootenberg (University of New York at Stony Brook), Joseph Love (University of Illinois at Urbana). Commentators: John Coatsworth (Harvard University) and William Gervase Clarence-Smith (University of London, SOAS).
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