Thomas F O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 701264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas F O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas F |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
BRENDA Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Futbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile
Journal Article Brenda Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile. Get access Brenda Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile.Austin: University of Texas Press. 2011. Pp. ix, 315. $55.00. Thomas F. O'Brien Thomas F. O'Brien University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2…
Interventions, Conventional and Unconventional: Current Scholarship on Inter-American Relations
Interventions, Conventional and Unconventional: Current Scholarship on Inter-American Relations Thomas F. O'Brien (bio) Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. By Russell Crandall. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 254. $28.95 paper. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954, 2nd ed.By Nick Cullather. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 200…
Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico
Anne-Emanuelle Birn’s Marriage of Convenience is the latest in a series of studies drawing on the Rockefeller Foundation’s rich archival material to analyze its Latin American reform programs, which ranged from disease control to agricultural productivity and educational reform. This work is a deeply researched examination of the evolution of modern medical care in Mexico as well as the roots of global health services in the contemporary era. Bir…
Yankee Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
In the not-so-distant past, historians viewed inter-American relations and its parent, diplomatic history, as areas suffering from a serious shortage of innovative scholarship. After dependency theorists introduced some fresh insight to the field, students of U.S.–Latin American relations seemed to ignore blissfully trends such as social history, gender theory, ethnohistory, and cultural studies. In the past decade, all that has changed. Studies …
Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
By the end of the twentieth century, neoliberal policies and free-market forces had largely swept aside the post–World War II programs of state-led development, and historians, who once hotly debated such issues as dependency, had turned their attention to social and cultural history. Marshall Eakin’s Tropical Capitalism runs counter to these powerful currents. And yet—as grand neoliberal experiments such as Argentina have collapsed in ruins at t…
Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries
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
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
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
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
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
Historia del salitre desde la Guerra del Pacífico hasta la Revolución de 1891
Dependency Revisited
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The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891
The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition: 1870-1891
Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations: The Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru (1902-1974)
Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations: The Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru (1902-1974)
Thomas F. O’Brien’s reply
The Antofagasta Company: A Case Study of Peripheral Capitalism
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
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…
Santiago Chile, 1541–1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation
Attempts to understand the nature of colonial Latin American cities have tended to focus on the role of urban centers in the process of empire building. The Spanish cities of the New World served initially as spearheads of conquest, and later as centers for the exercise of Imperial control. A particularly important aspect of this control was the effort by the Crown to limit the power of encomenderos , men whose royally granted right to use Indian…
Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice”: The Guggenheims in Chile
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…
The Antofagasta Company: A Case Study of Peripheral Capitalism
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…
Santiago Chile, 1541–1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation
Attempts to understand the nature of colonial Latin American cities have tended to focus on the role of urban centers in the process of empire building. The Spanish cities of the New World served initially as spearheads of conquest, and later as centers for the exercise of Imperial control. A particularly important aspect of this control was the effort by the Crown to limit the power of encomenderos , men whose royally granted right to use Indian…
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
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…
Dependency Revisited
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Chilean Elites and Foreign Investors: Chilean Nitrate Policy, 1880-82
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…
Santiago Chile, 1541–1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation
Attempts to understand the nature of colonial Latin American cities have tended to focus on the role of urban centers in the process of empire building. The Spanish cities of the New World served initially as spearheads of conquest, and later as centers for the exercise of Imperial control. A particularly important aspect of this control was the effort by the Crown to limit the power of encomenderos , men whose royally granted right to use Indian…
Chilean Elites and Foreign Investors: Chilean Nitrate Policy, 1880-82
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…
Thomas F. O’Brien’s reply
The Antofagasta Company: A Case Study of Peripheral Capitalism
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…
Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations: The Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru (1902-1974)
Labor Relations and Multinational Corporations: The Cerro de Pasco Corporation in Peru (1902-1974)
The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition, 1870-1891
The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition: 1870-1891
Dependency Revisited
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Historia del salitre desde la Guerra del Pacífico hasta la Revolución de 1891
Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice”: The Guggenheims in Chile
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
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
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
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945
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…
Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries
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…
Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
By the end of the twentieth century, neoliberal policies and free-market forces had largely swept aside the post–World War II programs of state-led development, and historians, who once hotly debated such issues as dependency, had turned their attention to social and cultural history. Marshall Eakin’s Tropical Capitalism runs counter to these powerful currents. And yet—as grand neoliberal experiments such as Argentina have collapsed in ruins at t…
Yankee Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
In the not-so-distant past, historians viewed inter-American relations and its parent, diplomatic history, as areas suffering from a serious shortage of innovative scholarship. After dependency theorists introduced some fresh insight to the field, students of U.S.–Latin American relations seemed to ignore blissfully trends such as social history, gender theory, ethnohistory, and cultural studies. In the past decade, all that has changed. Studies …
Interventions, Conventional and Unconventional: Current Scholarship on Inter-American Relations
Interventions, Conventional and Unconventional: Current Scholarship on Inter-American Relations Thomas F. O'Brien (bio) Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. By Russell Crandall. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 254. $28.95 paper. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954, 2nd ed.By Nick Cullather. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 200…
Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico
Anne-Emanuelle Birn’s Marriage of Convenience is the latest in a series of studies drawing on the Rockefeller Foundation’s rich archival material to analyze its Latin American reform programs, which ranged from disease control to agricultural productivity and educational reform. This work is a deeply researched examination of the evolution of modern medical care in Mexico as well as the roots of global health services in the contemporary era. Bir…
BRENDA Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Futbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile
Journal Article Brenda Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile. Get access Brenda Elsey. Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile.Austin: University of Texas Press. 2011. Pp. ix, 315. $55.00. Thomas F. O'Brien Thomas F. O'Brien University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2…
Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
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