sandra mcgee deutsch is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida in 1979 and is the author of Counterrevolution in Argentina, 1900-1923: The Argentine Patriotic League (1986). She is writing a comparative history of the far right in politics in the ABC countries, 1900-1940.

thomas f. glick is professor of history at Boston University, and he chairs the History of Science Society’s Committee on the Quincentennial of the Discovery of America. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. He is currently completing a study of Darwin’s impact in Latin America.

carlos newland graduated in economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina and received an M. Litt, degree in modern history at Oxford. He is now a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Leiden. His principal research field is the history of elementary education in Hispanic America.

guy p. c. thomson has been teaching Latin American history at the University of Warwick since 1974. He received his D. Phil, from Oxford in 1978 with a thesis recently published as Puebla de los Angeles: Industry and Society in a Mexican City, 1700-1850. He has also published several essays on early Mexican industrialization but has now shifted his interest from economic to political history and from the city to the countryside, working on the impact of liberalism and warfare in the Sierra de Puebla.