treatment of the subject) surely demonstrates that the elaborate publicity campaign and the government’s ambitious outreach endeavours to enlist popular support were collectively more than just something which ‘remained limited merely to an in- formational function’ (p. ), that they had great resonance and meaning, including for industrialists, in terms of Argentina’s political culture and society’s relationship to Perón and his movement. But within the strict genre of economic history and political economy, Belini’s book certainly constitutes the definitive, most detailed study on the subject, the essential book for anyone interested in the history of industrialists, indus- trial planning and industrial policy in those years. JAMES BRENNAN University of California, Riverside J. Lat. Amer. Stud. (). doi:./SX Eric Helleiner, Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, ), pp. ix + ,$., hb. Since the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (known today as the World Bank) at the Bretton Woods Conference of July , they have played a central role in the international economy. While scholars have depicted the Bretton Woods Conference as the almost exclusive result of bilateral negotiations between the United States and Britain, Eric Helleiner ’s new book highlights the so far understudied role of poorer countries, thereby offering a major reinterpretation of the origins of the postwar economic order. ‘Forgotten Foundations’ focuses mainly on two issues: . the largely overlooked north-south dimensions of the Bretton Woods negotiations, . the origins and centrality of the development agenda not only to Latin American, Asian, African, and Eastern European founding members of the IBRD, but also to their main architects, the United States and Britain. These two interrelated issues constitute ‘the forgotten foundations of Bretton Woods’. Drawing on impressive archival research in the United States and Britain, Helleiner describes how US officials (as well as several British economists) learnt from their counterparts in poorer regions and incorporated (part) of their ideas into the Bretton Woods proposals. By arguing that peripheral countries had a significant impact on the IBRD’s original agenda, Helleiner seeks to correct partial, if not mis- taken, accounts of the planning process. The study of African, Asian, Eastern European, and Latin American participation in the Bretton Woods process in one single book is innovative and of great value. The book is organised chronologically and regionally. In Chapters and , Helleiner argues that while existing historiography locates the birth of international development in President Truman’s speech of or the – Bretton Woods’s negotiations, its roots are to be found in Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Good Neighbour policy. By examining the United States’ financial mission to Cuba in –, Chapter explains the transformation of US financial advisory ac- tivities in Latin America under the Good Neighbour policy. It shows that through the missions’ activities, US officials became more sympathetic to the concerns of Latin American policy-makers regarding industrialisation, development and debt default. In fact, Helleiner rightly points to the high degree of continuity between Book Reviews