joan l. bak is associate professor of history at the University of Richmond. She received her doctorate from Yale University with a thesis entitled “Some Antecedents of Corporatism: State Economic Intervention and Rural Organization in Brazil: The Case of Rio Grande do Sul, 1890-1937.” Among her publications are “Cartels, Cooperatives and Corporatism: Getúlio Vargas in Rio Grande do Sul on the Eve of Brazil’s 1930 Revolution,” (HAHR 63, 1983) and “Political Centralization and the Building of the Interventionist State in Brazil: Corporatism, Regionalism and Interest Group Politics in Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1937,” (The Luso-Brazilian Review 22, 1985). She is currently continuing her work on labor history in Rio Grande do Sul from 1889 to 1930.
shawn c. smallman is an assistant professor in the International Studies department at Portland State University. He completed his dissertation at Yale, where his thesis “The Parting of the Waters: The Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954” examined the military’s waxing influence in civilian affairs during this century. Most recently he has published an article entitled “Shady Business: Corruption in the Brazilian Army before 1954,” (Latin American Research Review 32, no. 3, 1997).
alfonso w. quiroz is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. He is the author of several books and articles on Peruvian colonial and modern history and is currently working on a book on economic policies in Cuba during the nineteenth century. He is the curator of the New York Public Library’s exhibition “A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict” (March-August 1998).
william w. stein (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1955), is professor emeritus at SUNY, Buffalo, and is currently adjunct professor of anthropology at Texas Tech University. Among other works, he is the author of Hualcan: Life in the Highlands of Peru (Ithaca, 1961); El levantamiento de Atusparia: el movimiento popular ancashino de 1885: un estudio de documentos (Lima, 1988); El caso de los becerros hambrientos y otros ensayos de antropología económica (Lima, 1991); and Dance in the Cemetery: José Carlos Mariátegui and the Lima Scandal of 1917 (Lanham, Md., 1997). He is currently working on a volume of essays on the modernity project at Vicos.
