Social and economic reform in Ecuador
life and work in Guayaquil
- ISBN: 9780813014371
- Editorial: University Press of Florida
- Fecha de la edición: 1996
- Lugar de la edición: Florida. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné (Tela)
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 256
- Idiomas: Inglés
"Pineo's work on the urban social history of Guayaquil not only breaks virgin territory as far as Ecuadorian history is concerned, it also constitutes one of the few such urban social histories for the period in Latin American historiography. While we have comparable works for Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, we have none for Peru or the other Andean countries nor any that emphasizes the public health or medical dimensions of urban underdevelopment."--Peter Klaren, George Washington University "A pioneering study which fills an important gap in the social and economic history of Ecuador.