barry carr is senior lecturer in history and chairman of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Oxford University. His research has been centered on the history of the Mexican left, and he is currently writing a book on its development in the post-1937 period. He has written articles on the history of the workers’ movement and on regional dimensions of Mexican history. He has edited a recent collection of essays (The Mexican Left, the Popular Movements and the Politics of Austerity, 1986, and is the author of El movimiento obrero y la política en México 1910-1929 (1979).
ricardo salvatore works as associate professor of Argentine economic history at the Universidad de Córdoba. A recipient of a study grant from the Latin American Scholarship Program for American Universities, he recently completed his doctorate in economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1986, his article, “Labor Control and Discrimination: The Contratista System in Mendoza, Argentina, 1880-1920,’’ was published by Agricultural History, which awarded it the graduate student prize. A Spanish version of that paper appears in Desarrollo Económico.
jonathan c. brown is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He wrote a book on the socioeconomic history of Argentina in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that received the Bolton Prize in 1980. More recently, the Latin American Research Review published his article on the historiography of nineteenth-century Argentina. Articles from his current research on the foreign oil companies in Latin America have appeared in the American Historical Review and in books edited by John D. Wirth and by Alice Teichova et al.
ralph lee woodward, jr. (Ph.D., Tulane, 1962) is chairman and professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author or editor of Class Privilege and Economic Development: The Consulado de Comercio of Guatemala, 1793-1871 (1966); Robinson Crusoe’s Island (1969); Positivism in Latin America, 1850-1900 (1971); Tribute to Don Bernardo de Gálvez (1979); Belize (1980); Nicaragua (1983); Central America, a Nation Divided (2nd ed., 1985); the Central American section of The Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean (1985), and Historical Perspectives on the Central American Crises (forthcoming). He is currently working on a monograph on the era of Rafael Carrera in Guatemala, 1821-1871.
ann zulawski received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1985. She is currently an assistant professor of history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has published several articles on Indian labor and social change in the Andes during the colonial period, and is currently preparing a book manuscript on this subject. She is also beginning a new research project on pentecostal Protestants in Latin America.
