CONTENTS

3 Contributors to this issue
6 Editorial
María Inés Barbero, Carlos Dávila

LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS

16 Drawing Links Between Corporate Governance and networks: bankers in the corporate networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Aldo MUSACCHIO

37 Foreign Direct Investment in Argentina: timing of entry and Business Activities of Foreign Companies (1860-1950)
Norma LANCIOTTI, Andrea LLUCH
67 Canadian multinational corporations and Economic nationalism: the case of Imperial Oil Limited in Alberta (Canada) and Colombia, 1899-1938
Marcelo BUCHELI

86 The Vale in the new context of internationalization of Brazilian companies
Armando DALLA COSTA
107 Entrepreneurs Barcelonnette in Mexico: the special a chain of immigrants in America (1840-1914)
Leticia GAMBOA OJEDA
138 Cultural issues at the root of a business: the process adaptation of the family in Mexico Maurer
Nineteenth century (1853-1890)
Mariano E. TORRES BAUTISTA
155 From oligarchy to bourgeoisie: the economic elite in Peru, 1916-1960
Felipe PORTOCARRERO SUAREZ

DISCUSSION

178 Perspectives on Latin American companies and their history

Mario CERUTTI, Raúl JACOB, Carlos MARICHAL, Rory M. MILLER, Tamás SZMRECSÁNYI, Javier VIDAL OLIVARES Interview by María Inés Barbero and Carlos Dávila

DOCUMENT

187 The contract guano in Peru
by Alfonso MOSTACERO-Huarache

CHRONIC

In reading the thesis and HDR
194 Caroline Piquet
The Universal Company of the Suez Canal
by Dominique BARJOT
196 Cyril Grange
The families of the Jewish bourgeoisie in the Paris Third Republic
by Dominique BARJOT
199 Pierre-Michel Chelini
Salaries in France 1944-1967
by Dominique BARJOT
201 News archives
Latin America in the business archives of ANMT
by Alfonso MOSTACERO-Huarache
204 Wink
The Dreyfus Affair is the bargain of the century, but it is not Peru: edifying letters to the new Eldorado
by Alfonso MOSTACERO-Huarache
206 News
207 Books Received
208 Abstracts
219 List of back issues of Business History and
220 2009 Subscriptions