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Frontier Development: Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Frontier Development Land Labour and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada 18901914 - Oxford Historical Monographs Author:Jeremy Adelman This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges much received wisdom about the economic "success" of North America and the "failure" of Latin America. Based on extensive primary research in Argent... more »ina, Canada, and Britain, Adelman's book points to the central importance of property relations in economic history in these regions.« less