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Latin American Economic and Business History

Rory Miller (1981). 'Latin American Manufacturing and the First World War: An Exploratory Essay', World Development, 9:8, 707-716.

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Rory Miller (1982). 'Small Business in the Peruvian Oil Industry: Lobitos Oilfields Limited before 1934', Business History Review, 56:3, 400-423.

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Rory Miller (1986). 'Transferring Techniques: Railway Building and Management on the West Coast of South America', in Rory Miller and Henry Finch, Technology Transfer and Economic Development in Latin America, 1850-1930, pp. 1-35. Liverpool: Institute of Latin American Studies, Working Paper #7 (PDF)

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Rory Miller (1993), 'Transferencia de técnicas: La construcción y administración de ferrocarriles en la costa occidental de Sudamérica', Siglo XIX: Cuadernos de Historia, 3:7, 65-102.

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Rory Miller (1996). 'Foreign Capital, the State and Political Corruption in Latin America between Independence and the Depression', in Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America, eds. Walter Little and Eduardo Posada-Carbó, pp. 65-95. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

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Rory Miller (1998). 'British Free-Standing Companies on the West Coast of South America', in The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996', in The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy, 1830-1996, eds. Mira Wilkins and Harm Schröter, pp. 218-252. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Robert Greenhill and Rory Miller (1998). 'British Trading Companies in South America after 1914', in The Multinational Traders, ed. Geoffrey Jones, pp. 102-127. London: Routledge.

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Rory Miller (1999). 'Introduction', in Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries, eds. Carlos Dávila and Rory Miller, pp. 1-16. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

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Rory Miller and Robert Greenhill (2006). 'The Fertilizer Commodity Chains: Guano and Nitrate, 1840-1930', in From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, eds. Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank, pp. 228-270. Durhan NC: Duke University Press.

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Rory M. Miller (2008), 'Inversión extranjera', in Historia general de América Latina. Tomo VII: Los proyectos nacionales latinoamericanos: sus instrumentos y articulación, eds. Enrique Ayala Mora and Eduardo Posada Carbó, pp. 159-180. Paris: UNESCO.

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Rory M. Miller (2010). ‘Latin American Business History and Varieties of Capitalism’, Business History Review 84:4, 653-57.

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Rory Miller (2010). Foreign Firms and Business History in Latin America. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes.

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Rory M. Miller (2015). ‘Staffing and Management in British MNEs in Argentina and Chile, 1930-1970’, in The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship, eds. Geoffrey Jones & Andrea Lluch, pp. 152-81. Basingstoke: Elgar.

 

Rory M. Miller (2015). ‘The British Commercial Houses in Peru and Chile between the Two World Wars: Success and Failure’, Estudios de Economia 42:2 (2015), 93-119. PDF

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Rory M. Miller (2017). 'The History of Business in Latin America', in The Routledge Companion to Business History, eds. John F. Wilson, Steven Toms, Abe de Jong & Emily Buchnea, pp. 187-201. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Rory Miller & Robert Greenhill (2017). ‘Las cadenas internacionales de dos fertilizantes: guano y nitratos, de 1840 a 1930’, in De la plata a la cocaína: cinco siglos de historia económica de America Latina, 1500-2000, eds. Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik & Zephyr Frank, pp.321-83. Mexico DF: Colegio de México / Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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Rory M. Miller (2017), 'Auge, crisis y ocaso del Banco Anglo Sud Americano', in Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Chile, 1810-1930, eds. Manuel Llorca-Jaña & Diego Barría, 225-55.

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Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Rory M. Miller & Diego Barría (2019) 'Introduction: Business History in Chile in the Twentieth Century', in Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile, eds. Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Diego Barría & Rory M. Miller, pp. 1-32. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Rory M. Miller (2019), 'Riding on a Roller-Coaster: The Rise and Decline of the Anglo-South American Bank', in Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile, eds. Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Diego Barría & Rory M. Miller, pp.139-68. Cham: Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Robert G. Greenhill and Rory M. Miller (2021). ‘British Business on the West Coast of South America’, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (on-line: doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.892).

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Manuel Llorca-Jana & Rory M. Miller (2025). 'Business in Chile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', in A Business History of Latin America, eds. Andrea Lluch, Martín Monsalve Zanatti & Marcelo Bucheli, pp. 71-91. New York & London: Routledge.

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