maría elba argeri is a teaching assistant at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen, Tandil) and has been a member of its Equipo Población y Sociedad since 1983. She obtained her Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies at the Université de Paris III and is currently working on a doctorate in Italian immigration to Argentina for the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
maría mónica bjerg has been a member of the Equipo Población y Sociedad since 1988. She is carrying out a research project on Danish immigration to Argentina. At present, she is working with a scholarship at the Center for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University.
david bushnell has just retired as professor of Latin American history at the University of Florida and managing editor of this journal. He has published monographs and articles mainly on Colombian history and is coauthor with former book review editor Neill Macaulay of The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (1988). He is now trying to finish all the things he did not have time for while editor.
john charles chasteen is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research on the southern borderland between Brazil and Spanish America appears in the essays “Violence for Show: Knife Dueling on a Nineteenth-Century Cattle Frontier,” “Trouble Between Men and Women: Machismo on Nineteenth-Century Estancias,” and “Maria Antônia Muniz: Frontier Matriarch,” as well as in a biography, Heroes on Horseback: The Savaria Brothers of Brazil and Uruguay, now in preparation.
john d. french is assistant professor of history at Florida International University. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1985. His research focuses on the urban labor movement in twentieth-century Brazil. His forthcoming publications include The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo and “Working Class Politics and the Middle Sectors in the ABC Region of Greater São Paulo” (Bulletin of Latin American Research). He is currently at work on a book about the metal workers of the ABC region 1950–1980.
carlos a. mayo received his doctorate from UCLA. He teaches at the Universidad de La Plata and is a researcher affiliated with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET). He coauthored La diplomacia del petroleo and El General Uriburu y el petroleo. He will be visiting professor at Brown University in the spring of 1992. An expanded version of his dissertation won an award in Spain and has just been published there.
eduardo josé míguez received his doctorate at Oxford University in 1981. He teaches history at Unicen and the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). He is the author of Las tierras de los ingleses en la Argentina (1870–1914) (1985). He is co-director of the Equipo Población y Sociedad at the Instituto de Estudios Histórico-Sociales (IEHS-Unicen), which has been working since 1983 on the socio-demographic history of the province of Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century.
hernán otero is adjunct professor at Unicen and has been a member of the Equipo Población y Sociedad since 1983. He received his Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies at the Université de Paris III and is working on a doctorate in social and demographic aspects of French immigration to Argentina in the nineteenth century for the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
richard j. salvucci received his doctorate at Princeton under the direction of Stanley Stein. He is the author of Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539–1840 (1987). He has taught economics and history at Villanova University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Trinity University. He is currently writing a book on trade, trade cycles, and the balance of payments in Mexico between 1825 and 1884.
joel wolfe is assistant professor of history at Williams College. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. He is completing work on a book based on his dissertation, “The Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class: Community, Work, and Politics in São Paulo, 1900–1955.”
