jeremy adelman received his doctorate from Oxford University and is a lecturer in history at the University of Essex. He is the author of Frontier Development: Land, Labour and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914 (forthcoming) and editor of Essays in Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930 (1992), and has written several articles on Argentine and Canadian history.
david w. walker is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. His research and publications on the history of Mexico range in topic from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century and include Kinship, Business, and Politics (1986). Currently he is completing a book on agrarian radicalism in eastern Durango.
allen wells is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Yucatán s Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen and Internatonal Harvester, 1860-1915 (1985) and coauthor of Yucatán y la International Harvester (1986). His articles on modern Mexico have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies, the Latin American Research Review, Siglo XIX, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. He is currently collaborating with Gilbert M. Joseph on a study of peasant rebellions and elite politics in Yucatán, 1890-1915.
