Sandra Kuntz-Ficker brings us a dashing book on an all-time controversial topic in the historiography of Latin American economic development: the role of the export sector in the economic development of Latin America in its first phase (1870-1929). The book starts with a comprehensive first chapter on the methodological approach of the authors and a last chapter with a synthesis of the dense research endeavour undertook by its eleven researchers. In between, seven chapters on major Latin American economies (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) presenting an in-depth research effort on the performance of the export sector in the first era of economic globalization.
