HIST 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pampas, Breadbasket, United Fruit Company
13 Apr 2016
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01/27--development of raw material export economies in argentina, colombia, and. Was backwater during colonial era, sparsely populated. Develops majorly in 1800s, participated in intl econ. 1810--still backwater, 500,000 ppl, buenos aires 50,000. 1880"s--govt wars against indg ppls on the pampa. Pampa needs capital, labour to b developed. Railways built--cut freight costs dramatically, opens up interior. Barbed wire was key invention--lowered cost of fencing immensely. Elites fenced in ranches, could then control livestock, plants. No farming until late 1800"s, when pampa b/comes great breadbasket. 2. 5 million migrants, mostly from s. eur, come in. Buenos aires is largely city of immigrants. New jobs in ag, services, construction, small factories, some consumer industries. Buenos aires begins to become overpopulated-- of pop lives there. In colonial per, mayans paid overlords w labour and taxes (encomienda syst) Us owned united fruit company grew bananas in east. Mandate that indg ppls come down to coffee plantations. Idea of capitalist consumption/consumerism pushed onto indg ppls.
