Carlos Marichal

Carlos Marichal
  • PhD en Historia Harvard University
  • Professor Emeritus El Colegio de México at College of Mexico

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Introduction
I work on the financial history of Latin America and have publishedmany works in this field which can be consulted in my website webpage: https://carlosmarichal.colmex.mx/
Current institution
College of Mexico
Current position
  • Professor Emeritus El Colegio de México

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En este primer episodio, Carlos Marichal, profesor-investigador del Centro de Estudios Históricos nos explica qué es la Globalización, cuándo comenzó y nos cuenta sobre sus etapas.
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Durante largo tiempo se ha sostenido que América Latina ha sido un territorio fácilmente dominado por potencias extranjeras debido a importantes asimetrías de poder político, militar y económico. Pese a que este diagnóstico ha sido compartido por muchos, existe un amplio abanico de diferentes interpretaciones respecto al fenómeno. Ello ha dependido...
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En este artículo se ofrece un panorama comparativo del establecimiento y las trayectorias de los bancos extranjeros (británicos, franceses, alemanes y españoles) en los mercados financieros tempranos de diversos países latinoamericanos desde 1863 hasta 1914. Se describen y comparan sus modelos de organización y algunas de sus estrategias para expan...
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Jorge Silva Riquer nos ha acostumbrado a regalarnos libros sucesivos quepermiten conocer cada vez mejor la historia de la hacienda pública en Méxicopero, además, este investigador prolífico tiene la virtud de moverse entrelos tres grandes ámbitos de la fiscalidad: la nacional, la estatal y la municipal.
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This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times.From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States an...
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This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times.From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States an...
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En este texto se revisan antecedentes de la historia intelectual en Europa y los Estados Unidos que han alimentado discusiones, estudios y publicaciones en dicho terreno en nuestra región latinoamericana a lo largo de los últimos treinta años. Luego, se ofrece un panorama sintético de las escuelas, grupos de trabajo y protagonistas más prolíficos d...
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La hipótesis de trabajo es que si bien se observó un descenso en el comercio global desde mediados de 1873, con un declive de los precios de muchas exportaciones de materias primas y minerales, así como una pronunciada caída de los flujos de capitales internacionales, las consecuencias del desplome no fueron uniformes en Latinoamérica. En varios ca...
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Este artículo ofrece una síntesis panorámica de la historia de la formación de los bancos centrales en América Latina y sus reacciones frente a la Gran Depresión, incluyendo una sección sobre sus antecedentes más importantes. Se argumenta que los bancos centrales surgieron en América Latina desde 1923 en adelante a partir de coyunturas políticas, e...
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Ensayo sobre los trabajos de Jorge Gelman en torno a los problemas historiográficos de Latinoamérica durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX.
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Reseña sobre Guillermina del Valle Pavón, coord., Negociación, lágrimas y maldiciones. La fiscalidad extraordinaria en la monarquía hispánica, 1620-1814, Colección Historia Económica (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2020).
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The banking history of Latin America and Spain has emerged as a quite active field for comparative research in economics and history. To show the recent liveliness in the field and the many new sources available, the article begins with two sections that provide an overview of the banking history of many countries, as well as bibliographies and ref...
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La colección editorial Itinerarios del Instituto Mora tiene como tradición publicar los estudios de historiadores internacionalmente reconocidos. En esta ocasión se han reunido en un volumen los ensayos más destacados del profesor Herbert S. Klein sobre la Real Hacienda en España y la América española a lo largo de tres centurias.
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The history of Mexican cochineal over several centuries represents a key chapter in the origins of early modern globalization, both cultural and economic, since this dye was the most expensive in the world from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries as a result of the consistent demand for luxury textiles—dyed with bright crimson, scarlet or pur...
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Dube's conversation with the distinguished historian of the Americas, Carlos Marichal, about *Subjects of Modernity* (2017)
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El análisis de la formación, estructura y funcionamiento de los sistemas financieros modernos tiene una larga tradición en los estudios de historia económica y del desarrollo económico. En líneas generales, la mayoría de estos análisis abordados desde una perspectiva histórica han centrado su atención preferentemente en experiencias o casos naciona...
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Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. By Beatty Edward . Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. x, 342. $70.00, cloth; $34.95, paper. - Volume 76 Issue 3 - Carlos Marichal
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Entre los diplomáticos latinoamericanos en París a mediados del siglo xix, se gestó una discusión acerca de la historia y del futuro destino de las naciones de la América española y portuguesa, la cual prefigura los primeros estudios internacionales modernos de América Latina. Entre aquellos, están el colombiano José María Torres Caicedo y el argen...
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En este ensayo revisamos una serie de investigaciones y reportes que fueron impulsados y publicados como consecuencia de crisis financieras del pasado y de la época contemporánea. Estos documentos suelen analizar las causas del colapso de determinados bancos o mercados financieros, pero, además, pueden echar luz sobre los procesos de ratificación d...
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Cochineal was the most expensive and most important dye exported from the Americas throughout three centuries, from the Spanish conquest down to the mid-nine tee nth century. The subject is of interest because it illustrates why and how the European demand for a particular commodity—in this case a valuable and labor-intensive dye stuff—directly aff...
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In this chapter attention is focused on the role of merchant and investment bankers on both sides of the Atlantic who were key actors in establishing bridges between the financial markets of Latin America and those of Europe in the 1880's. The focus is on Argentina because it was the largest debtor in Latin America in this decade and because it was...
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In order to understand the causes and consequences of a sovereign debt crisis, the present essay suggests the usefulness of a study in contrasts of the role of state enterprises and international banks operating in Mexico during the loan boom of 1970-1982 and later during the debt renegotiations between 1982 and 1989. In both cases, open competitio...
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SteinStanley J. and SteinBarbara H., Edge of Crisis: War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789–1808 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), pp. xii+623, £39.00, hb. - Volume 43 Issue 2 - CARLOS MARICHAL
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Este ensayo centra su atencion en el analisis de las grandes crisis financieras y los debates sobre las llamadas primera y la segunda globalizacion (1870�]1914 y 1980�] 2008). Tres factores destacan como indicadores especialmente importantes de los procesos modernos de globalizacion economica: el incremento del comercio internacional, el aumento de...
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NealLarry: The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993. 278 pags. - Volume 13 Issue 2 - Carlos Marichal
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Esta obra integrada por siete ensayos analiza la anatomía dinámica de un grupo de grandes empresas en el contexto mexicano del siglo XX y principios del XXI, con base en estudios históricos, cimentadas a la vez en enfoques teóricos actualizados. En cada caso se plantea una combinación de elementos esenciales para entender la naturaleza de la empres...
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The historical analysis of the careers of emigrants who left their home countries to find better opportunities abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries demonstrates that they were marked by a variety of experiences, including economic success or failure. In the case of most studies on those individuals who attained wealth and a high social...
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Reseña sobre Michel Bertrand, Grandeur et Misère de l´Office: Les officiers de finances de Nouvelle-Espagne, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1999.
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In recent years, business history has become a rich and varied terrain for research in Latin America. In this essay, I will present an overview of key aspects of banking history in the region, with an emphasis on the sources that are available in Argentina and Mexico. The extensive archives that have been built up in both countries offer historians...
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Since the early nineteenth century, the United States has repeatedly intervened in the affairs of Latin American nations to pursue its own interests and to “protect” those countries from other imperial powers or from internal “threats.” The resentment and opposition generated by the encroachment of U.S. power has been evident in the recurrent attem...
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By reinterpreting the recent literature on the fiscal history of Spain and Spanish America during the long span of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, Irigoin and Grafe have written a major revisionist essay that will probably change the way historians think about intra-imperial fiscal relations and that raises many important issues regarding t...
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In this essay attention is focused on the persistence of colonial loyalties despite the profound crisis at the center of the Spanish monarchy as a result of the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian peninsula. One clear indicator of colonial support can be found in the review of the numerous loans and donations collected in colonial Mexico for the pur...
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Paolo Riguzzi, ¿Reciprocidad imposible? La política del comercio entre México y Estados Unidos, 1857–1938 (México, DF: El Colegio Mexiquense y Instituto Mora, 2003), pp. 437, pb. - - Volume 39 Issue 1 - CARLOS MARICHAL
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This chapter focuses on the transformation of the telecommunications sector in Mexico during the twentieth century, selected because of its emergence from the 1970s at the heart of a new technological paradigm, which provides the architecture for the information society and is increasingly subject to intensified global competition and mergers and a...
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This book emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in size of territorial empire, particularly because of its colonies in Spanish America. The Spanish crown was involved in four wars with Great Britain and two wars with France during the decades 1760–181...

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