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Caribbean and Latin America

René De La Pedraja. Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from the Imperial Era to the 1950s. (Contributions in Economics and Economic History, number 206.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1998. Pp. xii, 191. $59.95.

One would have thought, given the geographical location of Latin America, that shipping and a shipping industry would have been a natural development, but as René De La Pedraja, very convincingly demonstrates, that was not to be the case at all. The emergence of a merchant marine was a most difficult struggle in which not all Latin American countries even participated. 1

De La Pedraja has done a tremendous amount of research regarding the shipping industry with his previous work, Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry (1994), and his follow-up work to this volume, Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition (1999). With this much research, it is very difficult to argue contrary to any of his conclusions. . . .

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