...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...

... for the better part of a century, and elaborate on it, little more. The historical significance of prussianization lies (nearly a century after its zenith) in the generation of an army officer corps ethos and attendant myths and lore, not in immediate or long-range technical and war-making achievements. To judge...

...William S. Dudley * The author is Assistant Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 A group of about 50 radical army officers led some 500 soldiers and Military Academy students to overthrow the Brazilian monarchy...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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

... 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...

... 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 with Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Junient in 1761. Upon...

...Frank D. McCann 10 Ibid., pp. 7-10. 11 At the time, Duval wrote, the army was authorized to have 28,160 soldiers, but had only 15,000; and there were 2,917 officers, instead of the authorized 1,914. It is likely that the excess money budgeted for the soldiers was going to pay the extra...

... to Neill Macaulay, Aug. 23, 1977. 16 “In the final days of the war,” Franqui writes, “the 20 rebel columns, initially composed of fewer than a hundred men, could count on six or seven thousand well-equipped men.… The rebel escopeteros , who were thousands, were armed with the taking of small army...

...Gary Wynia The Army and Politics in Argentina 1945-1962: Perón to Frondizi . By Potash Robert A. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1980 . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 418 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 In 1969 Robert...

...Steven Ross The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659. The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries’ Wars . By Parker Geoffrey . New York and London , 1972 . Cambridge University Press . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Figures. Glossary. Appendices. Index...

... not fully cover all the aspects of such a fascinating subject. The political atmosphere which influenced the army is sometimes vaguely mentioned; clarifying explanation of certain episodes—the Liberal uprising of 1916—are lacking. And the author tends to forget the important Cuban national forces which...

... of the War Department: Report of the Major-General Commanding the Army, 1898 , United States Congress, House of Representatives, 55th Congress, 3d Session, House Document No. 2, Ser. 3745 (Washington, D.C., 1898), pp. 375-376 (hereinafter cited as ARWD/1898) . See also Rafael Martín Ortiz, Cuba los...

...Timothy E. Anna * The author is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 O n S eptember 27, 1821, S pain’s imperial glory in the kingdom of New Spain ended as Agustín de Iturbide, leading the 16,000-man Army...

...Claude C. Sturgill The Spanish Army in the Peninsular War . By Esdaile Charles . Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press , 1988 . Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 232 . Cloth . $49.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Charles J...

...Lyle C. Brown Mexican Militarism. The Political Rise and Fall of the Revolutionary Army, 1910-1940 . By Lieuwen Edwin . Albuquerque , 1968 . University of New Mexico Press . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 194 . $6.95...