The Cobden-Chevalier Treaty of 1860 is regarded as central turning point in nineteenth-
century trade policy, inaugurating a free trade era in Western Europe. We reexamine this …

Argentine export growth before the First World War is considered one of the most relevant
variables in order to understand the main characteristics of Argentina's long-run modern …

During c. 1810–59 over 260 British merchant houses operated in the River Plate or Chile,
and many more in the rest of Latin America. These were times when Anglo-Latin American …

To date, research on the economic history of Brazil during the 19th century has relied on
official foreign trade statistics, the accuracy of which has repeatedly been put into question …

This paper deals with the impact of 'early'nineteenth-century globalization (c. 1815–1860) on
foreign trade in the Southern Cone (SC). Most of the evidence is drawn from bilateral trades …

London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused
by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American …

Following Tulio Halperín Donghi's pioneering work, historians have tried to explain why
Argentina experienced a dramatic export-led expansion in the first half of the nineteenth …

In 1821 Mexico achieved its independence from Spain. What happened in the following 50
years has become a field of dispute for economic historians. The lack of reliable quantitative …

This article deals with Huth & Co.'s activities in Chile during the 1820s-1850s. Huth was the
only London merchant-banker that decided to go global before 1850, and also the only one …

Medieval systems of common rights depended on their underlying philosophy of a common
land as' the prerogative of right-holders'(p. 153) and on traditional syst management which …