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As it happened in other parts of the world, the 'Garden City' was used more as an image than as a model in early twentieth-century Latin America. While attempting to set the regional diffusion of the model in international perspective, the review intends to explore the analogous use of the concept by Latin American historiography, following the two senses according to which it has been simplified: namely for its bucolic resonance, and to denote the suburban layouts that were different from traditional models.

AbstractA growing scholarship has documented changes in welfare policy in twenty-first-century Latin America, but no study yet has offered a systematic assessment, using a welfare regime approach, that captures the main trends across countries and over time. For a sample of 17 countries, this study offers a comprehensive tool to measure shifts in social policy regimes, highlighting three dimensions of welfare – inclusion, generosity, and equity – across four policy areas: transfers, health care, education, and family policies. Countries made significant progress in generosity and inclusion, but none improved equity. A cluster analysis based on the three dimensions of welfare offers a new, more precise classification of Latin American countries in welfare regimes in 2002 and 2017. Although the analysis shows minor shifts in country groupings, an increasing reliance on social assistance policies, particularly among the most advanced countries, marks a shift towards what I call compensatory regimes.

'Progress, Poverty, and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century' by Rosemary Thorp is reviewed. A book review is presented of Progress, Poverty, and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century by Rosemary Thorp.

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword to An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1. Introduction The Export Age: The Latin American Economies in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 2. Brazil as an Export Economy, 1880-1930 -- 3. Coffee and the Origins of Modern Economic Development in Colombia -- 4. The Economies of Central America, 1860-1940 -- 5. Export-led Growth in Mexico, c.1900-30 -- 6. Peru, 1884-1930: A Beggar Sitting on a Bench of Gold? -- 7. Bolivia, 1900-39: Mining, Railways and Education -- 8. Trying to 'Tax and Spend' Oneself out of the 'Dutch Disease': The Chilean Economy from the War of the Pacific tothe Great Depression -- 9. The Vicissitudes of an Exporting Economy: Argentina (1875-1930) -- 10. Alteration, Crisis and Adjustment in the Cuban Export Economy,1898-1939 -- Index.

A new edition of a book first published in Bogotá, this English edition is a crucial addition to the literature on Latin American business history for a wider English-speaking audience, and it will be of interest to business and economic historians generally. Essays are included by leading economic historians of Latin America from the UK and from other countries. Each contributor has managed to relate the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development

The article examines the views of the leading politicians: Jose Marti (Cuba), Roque Saenz Peña (Argentina), Rafael Uribe Uribe (Colombia). According to them, the main obstacle to the progressive development of Latin America were US plans to dominante Latin America. They criticized the Monroe Doctrine, firstly used to justify America's continental expansion but at the turn of the century revived to assert that the United States had a right and duty to extend its influence and civilization in the Western Hemisphere. Their proposed measure for the preservation of sovereignty was to create the confederation of all Latin American states.