...Todd A. Diacon Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889–1954 . By Smallman Shawn C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2002 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 265 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 2003 by Duke University...

...Sonny B. Davis Soldiers of the Pátria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889–1937 . By Mccann Frank D. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2004 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 593 pp. Cloth , $75.00 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...Frederick M. Nunn The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army . By Sater William F. and Herwig Holger R. . Studies in War, Society, and the Military . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1999 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Index . 247 pp. Cloth , $50.00...

...Shawn Smallman The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945 . By Beattie Peter M. . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham : Duke University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary...

...Keith Brewster The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852 . By Depalo William A. Jr. University Military History Series , vol. 52 . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 1997 . Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index, xi, 280 pp. Cloth , $39.95...

...Frederick M. Nunn The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi’s Fall to the Peronist Restoration . By Potash Robert A. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1996 . Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index . xv , 547 pp. Cloth . $55.00 . Copyright 1997...

... Mexico entered NAFTA), but also because it has the cachet of indigenous fighters led by masked guerrillas. Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation . By Marcos...

... to North American military usage. She designated the Fidelista columnas as “battalions,” probably because they approached the size of a United States army or marine battalion, “about 500 men and 20-odd officers.” She praised Antonio Lussón as the most capable “battalion officer” she observed. 12...

... by Sena Madureira and was approved by the military section of the Council of State, which in 1887 endorsed principles it had rejected in the case of the Military Institute of 1871. See Nascimento e Silva, Consultas do Conselho . . . , pp. 45-46. 55 For the influence of positivism on the army see...

... as elected civilians. In 1969 Robert Potash published his excellent study of the Argentine army during the 1930s and early 1940s. Now, eleven years later, he has completed its long-awaited sequel, which begins with the rise of Juan Perón in 1945 and ends with the coup that displaced civilian president...

..., and Peru, and the questions they raise about the colonial origins of Latin American militarism, other important information emerges about the sociopolitical role of these armies. Further understanding of the ways in which colonial elites used the military institution to improve their personal situation...

...Christon I. Archer * The author is Professor of History at The University of Calgary, Alberta. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 … with reason, my successors will repeat the old clamor that there is no army in New Spain, and that the expenditures were made without...

...Allan J. Kuethe The Army in Bourbon Mexico, 1760–1810 . By Archer Christon I. . Albuquerque , 1977 . University of New Mexico Press . Tables. Illustrations. Appendixes. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 366 . Cloth. $15.00 . The Military and Society...

... a bulwark of royalism because of the presence there of an army which had been greatly strengthened by Viceroy José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa during the period 1808-1816. 1 Abascal’s military measures have been viewed by some historians as the culmination of a program of military reform which began...

...Walter V. Scholes The French Army in Mexico, 1861-1867 , is an excellent account of the French military government in Mexico at the time of the Intervention. Actually, the term “military government” implies too broad a field, for the first French commander had turned practically all political...

...Ronald H. Dolkart In the first half of his projected two-volume study on the army and politics in Argentina, Robert A. Potash is concerned with the causal factors which brought the military out of its professional isolation and changed the role which it had played in society since the late...

...Frederick M. Nunn The creation of a modern army in Chile had serious long-range consequences, both professional and national. Prussianization set ambitious professional officers against their superiors, against their incompetent colleagues, and against politicians who meddled in army affairs...

...David H. Zook, Jr. U.S. Army Area Handbook for Bolivia . Foreign Areas Studies Division, Special Operations Research Office . Washington, D.C. , 1963 . The American University Press of Washington, D.C . Maps. Tables. Notes. Index . Pp. 714 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press...

... … 1918 , p. 21. The army gained more control over the states’ Polícia Militar organizations during the Estado Novo (1937-45) and completely neutralized them after the Revolution of 1964. Miguel de Castro Ayres, “A Guarda Nacional,” ADN , Dec. 10, 1918, pp. 106-109. It had been an army objective...

...Bailey W. Diffie Falange. The Axis Secret Army in the Americas . By Chase Allan . ( New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons , 1943 . Pp. x , 278 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...