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...Eric Hershberg The title of the volume is perhaps misleading, for the agony of modernization in Spain did not end with Franco’s victory. The 1950s and 1960s were a period of unprecedented industrial expansion, the impact of which shaped both the character of the political transition after...

... (not British or Spanish) history and leave nations and nationalisms behind. A substantial part of the Spanish empire was lost by 1824, but this loss did not give rise to the literature of agony that was characteristic of the “end-of-the-century” crisis in Spain. The Spanish Monarchy mourned the loss of its...

... their charge as leaders? Are the bourgeoisie (whoever they are) to blame, as many commentators imply? While the book does not provide the answer, readers will learn much about the agony of contemporary Brazil. The book presents overwhelming evidence of official indifference to the lot of most Brazilians...

... date of the Empress, the participation of known figures of the Conquest, Xerez’ authorship of the Conquista del Perú , give validity to the editor’s conclusions. Morton emphasizes the poem rather than the poet. The work is divided into two parts, the agonies of the search for Perú...

... translated works among which are his most purely philosophical treatises, The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples (London, 1912) and The Agony of Christianity (New York, 1928). Besides the American study of Unamuno’s thinking was sparked in September 1964, when Hispanic scholars from seven...

... déroulent parmi les drames d’une Chrétienté en agonie” (p. 162)—as thought-provoking as his previous books on jurisprudence and theology (read pp. 151—157 and 234-238, dissecting Las Casas’s views on dominion and natural law), and as flawed as the incomplete biographical material on which the author had...

... in Manila. The treatment adds up to an able literary defense of a courageous field commander victimized by politics and public opinion. But the careful reader emerges with more questions than answers. Is Schott discussing the “Ordeal of Samar,” or is he describing the agony and frustration of Americans...

.... Contemporaries reported every detail of the king’s agony to prove the efficacy of prayer and material aids, such as saintly images and holy water. Eire argues convincingly that every aspect of the king’s death symbolized Catholic piety, emphasizing good works against the Protestant reliance on faith alone...

... of the Chilean sociopolitical crisis of 1924–25: the downfall of the Parliamentary Republic. She also shows where the historical origins of Chile’s present agony lie: in the elitist nature of a political system in which party competition retarded, rather than encouraged, social legislation. Party competition...

... of their souls from purgatorial agony. They lavished their dwindling economic resources on masses and church-related good works. While the general population declined, the clergy grew ever more numerous. This “cult of the dead” deprived Cuenca of capital that might have stimulated economic recovery. Ultimately...

... modern Mexico, but without its social, economic, and political oppression or constant protest. It is a village of almas , of souls, not of Mexicans concerned with what the political boss is doing or where their next meal is coming from. Yáñez focuses on the agony of these almas in their composite...

..., in order to understand Christian existence and the culture of the Latin American people. From this perspective Dussel analyzes the Christianization of Latin America through five overlapping stages: 1492-1808, the Christianization of the Indies; 1808-1961, the agony of Christianity (i.e., Catholicism...

... and consequences of Brazil’s heavy reliance on foreign capital and technology, will not be satisfied. To be sure, Baer and Kerstenetzky do discuss the probable social costs attendant upon the government’s economic policies. There is nothing on Indians, now undergoing the final agonies of forced acculturation...

... and modern transportation. From the mid-1920s on, however, according to García Heras, the company became increasingly unable to cope with a new situation in which so many factors were not under its control. In this context, by the 1930s the Anglo’s history unfurled as a sort of long agony. This new...

... was Cleene spent,” and he planned, if he reached Ascension Island, “to haue there ended my unfortunate lief.” David Quinn succeeds to put into stark relief the agony of a man confronted by failure, at times close to paranoia, willful, and inept. Cavendish was a young man of 32 who “had inherited one...

... The Dutch capture of Ceylon in 1656 has oft been cited as a landmark in the protracted agony of the Estado da Índia . The fall of Ormuz and Malacca in 1623 and 1641 respectively, the loss of the Moluccas trade to the Dutch and the blockade of Goa pale into insignificance in the face of the loss of Ceylon...

... on a long flight to Buenos Aires can attest. Argentina’s crisis in 2001 – 2002 has only renewed interest among both scholars and a wider public drawn to the spectacle of the republic’s agony. Yet discussions of the Argentinean riddle are often fraught with problems. They tend toward reductive thinking about...

... and discipline of Chilean organized labor (pp. 72, 186) notwithstanding, this is a perceptive treatment of the agonies undergone by victors of 1970, soon to be victims of 1973. The chief villains in the “Chilean experience” are the Christian Democratic Party, ITT, the CIA and Henry Kissinger...

... their agonies become subsumed by the focus on enslavers' insatiable drive for profits. Advances in wind- and steam-driven ship designs seemingly increased slavers' profits and captives' miseries, with Marques explaining that the steamer Cicerón carried “more than a thousand captives” (p. 219). How did...

... gangsters were implicated in a wave of kidnappings. Gradually, news coverage shifted from a celebration of the new modes of crime to the agony of victims and the denunciation of crime. This shift accompanied a shift in public opinion. Although the actual levels of crime remained relatively constant...