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Author Rocchi, Fernando.

Title Chimneys in the desert [electronic resource] : industrialization in Argentina during the export boom years, 1870-1930 / Fernando Rocchi.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 394 p. : ill.
Series Social science history
Social science history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-383) and index.
Contents Introduction : Industrialization in an agrarian economy --The first factories : the dawn of Argentine industry, 1870s-1890s -- The market as an object of desire : the rise of domestic industrial consumption -- The victory of big business : industrial growth in the first decades of the twentieth century -- Only one Argentina: the creation of a national market for manufactured goods -- Tension and harmony in the industrial family : entrepreneurs and workers in argentina's factories -- Money and factories : the myths and realities of industrial financing -- The empire of pragmatism : politics and industry in the period 1880-1930.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Industrialization -- Argentina.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0804750122 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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