Sovereign Debt Crises and Negotiations in Brazil and Mexico, 1888-1914

Addresses the pre-1914 sovereign debt market from both creditors' and borrowing governments' perspectives
Presents new primary documents that bolster opinions of Brazil and Mexican government negotiation effectiveness
Proposes a new analytical framework to conceptualize how factors determined the relative power between governments and creditors

Autorentext
Leonardo Weller is Lecturer at the São Paulo School of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas, (EESP-FGV), Brazil. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics, UK.

Inhalt
1.Introduction.- 2. Governments versus Bankers in the Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Market.- 3. Rothschilds' Tropical Empire: Brazil, 1822-1889.- 4. Rothschilds' Troubled Republic: Brazil, 1889-1898.- 5. Rothschilds and Coffee Finance: Brazil, 1898-1914.- 6. From Defaults to Redemption: Mexico, 1821-1890.- 7. The Bankers' Beloved Dictatorship: Mexico, 1890-1910.- 8. The Loans of the Revolution: Mexico, 1911-1914.- 9. Conclusion.