Thomas F O'Brien

Biographic Data

ID4546362
NAMEThomas F O'Brien
GIVEN NAMESThomas F
FAMILY NAMEO'Brien
SIGNATUREBRIEN T F O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2019

  • Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2000

    The field of Latin American business history remains at an incipient stage of development, but this collection of essays offers an important assessment of its accomplish ments thus far, as well as suggestions for future research agendas. The authors offer some fairly coherent observations about business history in the seven countries that they examine. They agree that the level of development of business history varies dramatically from country t…

  • The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

    Lawrence A Clayton, Thomas F O’brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1943. By Thomas F. O'Brien. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv, 356 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-52155015-7.) Get access Lawrence A. Clayton Lawrence A. Clayton University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page 263, https://doi.o…

  • The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

    Paul W Drake, Thomas F O’brien et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1997

  • The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

    Lester D Langley, Thomas F O’brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

    Part I. Merchant Republic to Corporate Empire: 1. Merchant republic to corporate empire Part II. Marines and Cultural Revolution in Central America: 2. Liberal revolution and corporate culture 3. Nicaragua 4. Honduras Part III. Peru: 5. The alliance for modernization 6. Resistance communities Part IV. Chile: 7. Salitreras and socialism Part V. Sugar and Power in Cuba: 8. Sugar and power 9. Revolution and reaction Part VI. Patriotism and Capitalis…

  • Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice”: The Guggenheims in Chile

    Open AccessThomas F O’brien, Thomas F O'BrienARTICLEThe Business History Review1989Cited by: 13References: 13

    This article focuses on the roles of business-government relations, technology, financing, entrepreneurship, and management in the evolution of multinational corporations. It describes the Guggenheims' successive involvements in Mexican silver, Chilean copper, and Chilean nitrates and stresses the brothers' strategic use of technical innovation and relations with host governments to accomplish these major changes in the focus of their business. T…

  • Chile y Gran Bretaña durante la primera guerra mundial y la postguerra, 1914-1921

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1989

  • Historia del salitre desde la Guerra del Pacífico hasta la Revolución de 1891

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1987

  • Dependency Revisited

    Open AccessThomas F O’brien, Thomas F O'BrienARTICLEThe Business History Review1985Cited by: 1

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  • The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891

    Bill Albert, Thomas F O’brien et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1983

  • The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition: 1870-1891

    Harold Blakemore, Thomas F O’brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1983

  • Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations: The Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru (1902-1974)

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O'Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1982

  • Thomas F. O'Brien's Reply

    Thomas O'Brien, Thomas F O'BrienARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1980

  • The Antofagasta Company: A Case Study of Peripheral Capitalism

    Thomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1980Cited by: 4

    s Western Europe entered the mature stages of the industrial revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, Latin America was encompassed and deeply affected by its capitalist development. The capital reserves, entrepreneurial expertise, and technological advances of Europe entered that region on an unprecedented scale and drew upon its natural resources. Contemporary dependency theorists perceive in this process a distinct form of capi…

  • Chilean Elites and Foreign Investors: Chilean Nitrate Policy, 1880-82

    Open AccessThomas F O’brien, Thomas F O''Brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies1979Cited by: 1References: 6

    Chile's seizure of Peru and Bolivia's nitrate regions during the War of the Pacific (1879-83) opened a new and unprecedented era of prosperity for the Chilean economy. During the next forty years the export duty on nitrates fuelled a rapid increase in government revenues, and the entire domestic economy benefited from the development of the industry. Yet the incorporation of the nitrate industry into the national economy also appeared to signal a…