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... Natel to come on stage with him. When Natel refused, the candidate pulled him to his feet, grasped his hand, and raised their arms together, grinning from ear to ear as a visibly infuriated Natel glowered back. 161 Did Geisel and Figueiredo really want to eliminate Maluf? It is difficult...

...Michael P. Costeloe Mexicans at Arms: Puro Federalists and the Politics of War, 1845-1848 . By Santoni Pedro . Fort Worth ; Texas Christian University Press , 1996 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 323 pp. Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

...Andrés Suárez Rebellion, Revolution, and Armed Force. A Comparative Study of Fifteen Countries with Special Emphasis on Cuba and South America . By Russell D. E. H. . New York , 1974 . Academic Press . Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 210 . Cloth . $14.50...

... of German penetration had been nationalists, traditionalists, pacifists, and a number of supporters of other foreign interests and tendencies. In response, the German government, armed forces and war industry, at the turn of the century, began to defend their new and growing vested interests...

...D. M. P. A Leap to Arms: the Cuban Campaign of 1898 . By Dierks Jack Cameron . Philadelphia and New York , 1970 . J. B. Lippincott Company . Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 240 . $6.95 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Hanson W...

...Harold E. Davis. Area Studies in American Universities . By William Nelson Fenton for the Commission on Implications of Armed Services Educational Programs . ( Washington : American Council on Education , 1947 . Pp. 89 . Paper. $1.00 .) Language and Area Studies in the Armed...

..., the group collapsed in the early 1970s during the systematic government campaign to track down and eliminate armed resistance to the military regime. While serving time in Tiradentes Prison in São Paulo, Chaim and Mário shared the same cell. Rumors spread among the political prisoners of the different...

...Shawn C. Smallman For la Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America . By Loveman Brian . Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture . Wilmington, Del : Scholarly Resources , 1999 . xxvii , Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Glossary...

...J. Patrice Mcsherry The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America . By Fitch J. Samuel . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1998 . Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Index . xx , 264 pp. Cloth, $48.00 . Paper, $16.95 . 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

...Miguel Martínez Who Should Rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire . By Mónica Ricketts . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 314 pp. Cloth, $74.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University...

... Obregón in the northwest, and Emiliano Zapata in the south. These campaigns had cost dearly in lives, energy, and money. Among the government’s most pressing problems were the acquisition and replenishment of war supplies. Because Mexico did not manufacture arms and ammunition on any large scale most...

...Joshua Savala With Masses and Arms: Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement . By Miguel La Serna . H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Index . xiii, 270 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright...

...C. Harvey Gardiner Arms and Armor in Colonial America. 1526-1783 . By Peterson Harold L. . Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , 1956 . The Stackpole Company . Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 350 . $12.50 . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

...Herman L. Bennett Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico . By Vinson Ben III . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 304 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke University...

... world; perhaps even to do him modest justice. Further, a biographical essay offers glimpses of as-yet poorly mapped historiographical terrain: European and American participation in Latin America’s new industrialization of the 1930s; emergence of the Argentine steel and arms industries; Nazi Germany’s...

... politicization of the officer corps, culminating in the decade of military rule ended with the overthrow of Pérez Jiménez in 1958. An attempt is made to account for the apparent withdrawal of the military from politics since 1958. Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Venezuelan Armed...

... more effective. A minimal chronology of Brazil’s political history and an appendix stressing revolutionary political organizations are included for the non-specialist. The heart of the book deals with the 1968-1970 period during which “armed struggle” against the military régime appeared to hold...

...Dana G. Munro The Lingering Crisis: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic . Edited by Chang-Rodríguez Eugenio . New York , 1969 . Las Americas Publishing Company . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 178 . Cloth. Barrios in Arms. Revolution in Santo Domingo...

...Jerome Slater Arms and Politics in the Dominican Republic . By Atkins G. Pope . Boulder : Westview Press , 1981 . Tables. Bibliographic essay. Index . Pp. xiv , 158 . Cloth. $20.00 . Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 This is a most welcome book, the first...