...Volker Frank The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende: A Case of Assisted Suicide . By JONATHAN HASLAM. London: Verso, 2005. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 225 pp. Cloth, $23.00. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Book Reviews General The Social and...

...Charles W. Macune, Jr. José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis . By TIMOTHY HAWKINS. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. Maps. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 283 pp. Cloth, $40.00. © 2007 by Duke University...

...Doug Yarrington The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights...

...Karen B. Graubart Abstract The political jurisdiction of the colonial cacique, or ethnic lord, is often understood to have been truncated or undermined by Spanish political administration. But the role of the cacique was also key to enabling Spanish administrators to extract wealth from native...

...Christopher R. Boyer; Emily Wakild This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934–40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of...

... alphabetic literacy in Quechua. The article argues that a standardized written form of Quechua developed by the church was in fact widely used among the indigenous elite, but that it never became an important medium of internal administrative record keeping in indigenous communities, as did occur with...

... were readily available, with an upsurge in literacy in Maya among criollo clergymen, merchants, militia officers, and provincial administrators. They in turn observed that almost as many mestizo and Afro-Yucatecan subjects and parishioners spoke only Yucatec Maya as their indigenous counterparts. In...

...Ellen D. Tillman Abstract In the early 1900s, the US government experimented with what they saw as a progressive style of influence in the Dominican Republic. While the Roosevelt and Taft administrations sought alternatives to armed intervention, US officers serving as diplomats pushed for more...

...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha Based on the administrative records of the Escola Doméstica Nossa Senhora do Amparo and trials involving cases of violence between bosses and maids in domestic space, this essay discusses the emergence of a moral consciousness and a pedagogic discourse about domestic...

... productive dialogue, we reconstruct the processes whereby a Spanish and Christian moral order became locally meaningful and politically useful in indigenous communities far removed from Spanish administrative centers. Missionary translation strategies also entailed pairing Zapotec modifiers—such as the...

... executions of Catholics had allowed detractors and even sympathetic observers to question the depth of civic values in Mexico. The article shows how authorities deliberately presented the hearing as the concrete realization of Calles's claim that his administration had established institutions that embodied...

...Natalia Milanesio From the beginning of Juan Domingo Perón's administration, food consumption was both a significant object of state policy and a central component of official propaganda. This essay resists the analytical separation between politics and imaginaries in order to expand our...

...-right intellectuals and organizations that had considerable influence in successive military administrations and worked to define subversion—the military state’s ever-invoked enemy—in terms chiefly moral and sexual. Scholars have noted that defense of “Western Christian civilization” peppered the vague...

... administrative efforts. Subsequent comparisons of Guatemala to other regions where borders preceded independence will enable us to determine whether the changes that Sellers-García notes—from settlements along routes to enclosed administrative units and from composite to local documents—were more a product of...

... University Press 2018 This is an important political and economic history of the late 1950s in Brazil, from the last years of Getúlio Vargas's presidency (and tragic death) through the administration of President Juscelino Kubitschek (1956–61). It relies on significant archival research in Rio de...

...). She argues that the national face created by President Lázaro Cárdenas during his administration (1934–40) was based on his own personal charisma, Mexico's revolutionary past, and the nation's progressive policymaking. She examines the maintenance of this projected identity through episodes of...

... underpinnings of the reducciones campaign in the Andes, Mumford challenges previous depictions of Toledo as a dismantler of Inca institutions. He argues that in devising his policies for the reorganization of the Andean population, Toledo studied carefully and actually adopted key Inca administrative tools...

... many favelas became virtual war zones. The author explores the relations among the actors of his study in two main dimensions. The first is the field of formal political power, represented by successive state and municipal administrations elected after the end of the dictatorship. In particular, he...

..., managing editor's salary, clerical support, office space, graduate assistantships, telephone, postage, photocopying, computer support, and supplies) should be indicated, together with a statement of commitment from appropriate university administrators. A cover letter from the proposed editor(s) to the...