Rosario and the Election of 1887
The Political Economy of Mining in Honduras
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2839588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth V Finney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81 |
| Publication date | 1979-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514137 |
| OpenAlex | W4239537230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
TRADITIONAL Central American historiography conventionally dates the beginning of Honduran modernization from 1876 with the inauguration of the liberal regime of Marcos Aurelio Soto. Evidence supporting this year as a watershed in Honduran development consists of such innovations as suppression of the tithe, inauguration of public education, and codification of legal, commercial, mining, and administrative laws. From today's vantage point, much of this supposed transformation seems inconsequential: superficial reformism that produced few genuine benefits.' Much more interesting to contemporary historians is that Soto and his successor, Luis Bograin, helped initiate and facilitate the reestablishment of permanent economic links between Honduras and the North Atlantic market system.2 Honduras had, of course, been incorporated into earlier stages of this evolving economic system. Spanish colonists had intermittently participated in Spain's imperial economy by exporting such commodities as slaves and placer gold in the 1520s and 1530s, silver bullion in the 1570s, and in another brief cycle
Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Historical Studies in Central America · History and Politics in Latin America · International Business and FDI · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2011 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |