Gabriella Clove and Cinnamon

This book refers to the novel Gabriella Clove and Cinnamon in order to show how the characters from this book demonstrate modernization in 20th century Latin America. This book provides insight into what such measures meant socially politically and economically. Modernity includes more than economic development. It is also the Creation of institutional modular arrangements that can be transferred and imported from one region in the global system to another. Industrialization and modern economic financial structures can be bettered and encouraged but they cannot be totally exported. Institutions can. Thus the structural paradox of Latin America pointed out long ago by dependency theorists like Cardoso and Faletto: modern institutions (parties unions party systems nation-states) long endured and functioned with different degrees of Autonomy but in less developed contexts.