Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Latin America’s Response to International Markets during the Export Boom (Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells)
• 2. Coffee (Steven C. Topik)
• 3. Henequen (Allen Wells)
• 4. Oil (Jonathan C. Brown and Peter S. Linder)
• 5. An Alternative Approach (Mira Wilkins)
• 6. Retrospect and Prospect: The Dance of the Commodities (Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells)
• Epilogue (Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells)
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Steven C. Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Allen Wells is Professor of History at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Reviews

Second Conquest is well written, thoroughly documented, and attractively put together...It offers at once a useful general introduction to Latin America’s late-nineteenth-century export boom and a starting point for a more detailed study of any of the specific commodities treated. (Hispanic American Historical Review)