Description: "If Halpern's book owes its interpretive power and revisionist insights to the perspective and ideas of the economists concerned with the roots of Latin American underdevelopment, it tempers these insights with a historian's broad view of historical change, a wide familiarity with primary documents, and an unrivaled command over available secondary sources."--Charles Berquist, University of Washington, Seattle "The translation of this classic work is long overdue. Halpern's remarkably skillful at interweaving threads of social, political, and economic history into a coherent whole in a way very few historians can."--Deborah Jakubs, Council on Latin American Studies

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