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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Giorgio Alberti Jose Antonio Ocampo Universitd degli Studi, Bologna Fedesarrollo, Bogota Raymond Buve Juan Ossio University of Leiden Pontificia Universidad Cato'lica del Peru Eliana Cardoso Alain Rouquie Tufts University Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Tulio Halperin Donghi Paris University of California, Berkeley Lars Schoultz Guillermo O'Donnell University of North Carolina Kellog Institute, University of Notre Dame and Henryk Szlajfer CEBRAP, Sao Paulo Polish Academy of Sciences Alan Knight Edelberto Torres-Rivas University of Texas at Austin FLACSO, San Jose, Costa Rica Soledad Loaeza Emilia Viotti da Costa Colegio de Mexico Yale University

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VOLUME 24 PART 3 OCTOBER 1992

EDITORS VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS Professor of Economics, and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London

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ARTICLES The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Spanish America 481 PIERO GLEIJESES The Chilean Copper Smelting Industry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Phases of Expansion and Stagnation, 1834-58 507 LUIS VALENZUELA Autos over Rails: How US Business Supplanted the British in Brazil, 1910-28 551 RICHARD DOWNES The Evolution of Agricultural Interest Groups in Argentina 5 8 5 LUIGI MANZETTI High Inflation and Bolivian Agriculture 617 RICARDO GODOY DWMARIO DE FRANCO Inflation and Social Pacts in Brazil and Mexico 639 IAN ROXBOROUGH

COMMENTARY Beyond Transitions to Democracy in Latin America 665 MARCELO CAVAROZZI REVIEWS Juan Carlos Torre, La viejaguardia sindkaly Pero'n. Sobre los origines delperonismo, reviewed by Celia Szusterman 685 Louisa Schell Hoberman, Mexico's Merchant Elite, ij)o-i66o: Silver, State and Society, reviewed by Brian Hamnett 686 Carlos Alberto Mayo, Los Betlemitas en Buenos Aires: Convento, Economiay Sociedad, reviewed by Klaus Gallo 688 Pablo Rolando Cristoffanini, Dominacio'ny Legitimidad Politico en Hispanoame'rica, reviewed by John Fisher 689 Suzanne Austin Alchon, Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador, reviewed by Rosemary Bromley 690 Jean-Pierre Bastian (ed.), Protestantes, liberatesy francmasones: Sociedades de ideasy modernidad en America Latina, sigh XIX, reviewed by Helgio Trindade 691 Jose Carlos Chiaramonte, Mercaderes del Litoral: Economiay sociedaden laprovincia de Corrientes, primera mitad del siglo XIX, reviewed by Thomas L. Whigham 692

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