HIST 286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ford Model T, Suger, Auguste Comte
4 Oct 2016
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Export economies, boom times, and the transformation of latin america. Brazilian amazin, rubber for usa tires emerging aitomobiles. Comondity chain, some countries play different roles in that intetrconeected global economy. Their poverty owes much to that chain and their export if raw materials instead of finished goods. La choosed between being raw materials vs finished goods (they made the wrong economic chouce) Canada doesn"t have this theme of exporting is bad. Govs could move to improve transportation and infrastructure (roads, briges, telegraph lines). New train line between mexico city and vera cruz. Brazil also had tree dieseases and you couldn"t plant trees together in plantations. This put the brazilian rubber business out of business: dealign with no renewable resosurces. Peru has a dessert climate with very little rain fall. So bird droppings that were nitrogen rich that had accumulated for milleniums. You just had to scape off the bird poop and send it off.
