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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The nitrate king The nitrate king William Edmundson This is the first book-length biography of John Thomas North (1842-1896), known as ‘Colonel North’ in Britain and throughout the world as ‘The Nitrate King’. Using sources in Britain and Chile, the b… OL15538792W
Mobilizing resources in Latin America Mobilizing resources in Latin America Omar Sánchez "Why do some countries "learn to tax" and others do not? And, why does tax reform consolidate in some countries and not in others? The importance of these queries for the developing world and for Lat… OL16190451W
Cybernetic Revolutionaries Cybernetic Revolutionaries Eden Medina Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the sec… OL21519240W
The State and Capital in Chile The State and Capital in Chile Eduardo Silva "In this book-length extension of an earlier article on economic policy under Pinochet, Silva analyzes the interplay of social groups (principally capitalists and landowners), state structure, econom… OL3264532W