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British Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810–1880 (Harvard Studies in Business History) Hardcover – June 5, 1979

by Vera Blinn Reber (Author)

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British mercantile houses--privately financed commercial enterprises dealing in the import and export of goods--integrated Argentine production into the world economy between 1810 and 1880. For the time they flourished, they dominated every phase of the marketing of both British products and Argentine produce and promoted both their own profits and Argentine economic development. Frequent changes of government, foreign and civil wars, and blockades of the port of Buenos Aires provided merchants with constant risks as well as opportunities. The limited capital and simple organization of mercantile houses suited these risks and opportunities. The author evaluates in detail business operations and decision making and analyzes the relationship between business practices and the Argentine economic and political environment. We see a business institution from the inside: the evolution of practices and procedures, the impact upon the larger economy and society.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; 0 edition (June 5, 1979)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 217 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674082451
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674082458
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Vera Blinn Reber is a historian of Latin America. From 1963 to 1965 she served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. There she learned Spanish and decided to specialize in Latin American History. After obtaining a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison she taught at Shippensburg University from 1970-2008. She received awards for articles and various grants to support her research. In addition to two monographs, she published articles on tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, nineteenth century Paraguayan economic and demographic history, and Argentine business a history. Her revisions of deaths in Paraguay due to the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870, provoked controversy and her studies of tuberculosis in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires provided new models for comparative history.