ABSTRACT
This book describes and explains the long-term dynamics of Third World debt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on the various specific historical patterns of foreign loans, financial crises, and debt settlements between 1820 and 1990.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|34 pages
Periphery Indebtedness in the World-Economy
part Two|67 pages
Empirical Evidence of Global Debt Cycles
part Three|83 pages
Case Studies: The Debt Histories of Peru, Liberia and Turkey
