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8 - Economic and Business History in Venezuela

Ruth Capriles
Affiliation:
Universidad Católica
Marisol Rodríguez de Gonzalo
Affiliation:
Universidad Central de Venezuela
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In this chapter we take the risk of carrying out, perhaps for the very first time, an overall evaluation of the state of business history in Venezuela. It is only recently that this theme has been considered by those working on it as an area of academic research which is both specific and distinctive. Business historians in Venezuela used to lack awareness of its dimensions and hardly realised the significance of the tasks in which they were engaged. They were simply researchers approaching an area of common interest from rather different directions. Nobody, including the authors of this paper, could claim to be a real authority in the field. Even today the body of literature on business history in Venezuela is still not clearly defined. However, it may be possible to analyse it now with a greater awareness of the significance of business history in contemporary Latin America, something that used to be done rather intuitively or using the tools of the general historian rather than those of the specialist.

This chapter will therefore analyse the state of economic and business history in Venezuela, considering questions such as the style of economic history that has been written, and the current trends in the subject. However, when it comes to discussing problems of method and knowledge we are very much dependent upon our own experience of research in this field.

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Business History in Latin America
The Experience of Seven Countries
, pp. 158 - 176
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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