...Harold F. Peterson Baltasar Brum, verbo y acción. Crónica de la vida y pasión de un hombre, caballero del ideal de justicia y democracia, por el cual murió, al pretenderse arrasar la obra social mas perfecta de América, creada por el genio de José Batlle y Ordóñez . By Welker Juan Carlos...

...Simon G. Hanson Batlle, héroe civil . By Muniz Justino Zavala . [ Fondo de Cultura Económica, Colección Tierra Firme, 16 .] ( Mexico : “Gráfica Panamericana,” S. de R. L. , 1945 . Pp. 256 . Photographs. Paper.) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Batlle, heroe civil...

...Milton I. Vanger De Batlle a Pacheco Areco. Etapas de la lucha entre oligarquía y pueblo . By Cabrelli Alfonso FernÁndez . Montevideo, Uruguay , 1969 . Ediciones Tauro . Appendix . Pp. 273 . Paper. Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 The principal argument...

...Alicia Vidaurreta El desgaste de las levitas: Entre el Quebracho y la elección de Batlle, 1886–1903 . By Olivera Enrique Arocena . Montevideo : Barreiro y Ramos Editores , 1989 . Tables. Graphics . Pp. 206 . Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The political...

...Milton I. Vanger Batlle, los estancieros y el imperio británico. Vol. 1: El Uruguay del novecientos; Vol. 2: Un diálogo difícil, 1903-1910; Vol. 3: El nacimiento del batllismo . By Barrán José P. and Nahum Benjamín . Montevideo : Ediciones de la Banda Oriental , 1979-82...

...Doris B. McLaughlin Batlle, los estancieros y el imperio británico . Tomo VI. Crisis y radicalización, 1913-1916 . By Barrán José P. and Nahum Benjamín . Montevideo : CINVE , 1985 . Graphs. Tables. Notes . Pp. 257 . Paper. Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987...

...Philip B. Taylor, Jr. José Batlle y Ordóñez of Uruguay. The Creator of His Times, 1902-1907 . By Vanger Milton I. . Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1963 . Harvard University Press . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. viii , 320 . $7.50 . Copyright 1963 by Duke...

...Mark Van Aken Because of Vanger’s rather heavy emphasis on politics, opportunity remains for continued research on other aspects of the Batlle era, such as the new state enterprises and the expanded educational system. Nevertheless, this work presents a fascinating and important portrait of one...

...James C. Knarr Uruguay’s José Batlle y Ordóñez: The Determined Visionary, 1915 – 1917 . By Vanger Milton I. . Boulder, CO : Lynne Reinner Publishers, Inc. , 2010 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Notes. Index. xi , 295 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press...

...Marysa Navarro Gerassi Batlle y Ordóñez. Apogeo y muerte de la democracia burguesa . By Louis Julio A. . Montevideo , 1969 . Nativa Libros . Bibliography. Index. Pp. 208. Paper . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The title of this small book is misleading...

... American politics. If that is the case today, when the process is supposedly well advanced, it is also questionable that the new classes had as much political influence earlier in the century as many have assumed. Examination of a sample case will strengthen this conclusion. The election of José Batlle...

... to gain access to higher education and develop their own feminist consciousness. Her reading of Uruguayan history reflects a comparable balance. She embraces the current views of Uruguayan scholars: that Batlle’s reforms “anticipated rather than responded to the emergence of civil society...

... Ordóñez (1856-1929) played distinctive and briefly inter-related roles in their country’s historical development. Saravia, a rough-hewn rural caudillo and Blanco adherent, exemplified Uruguay’s long, tumultuous struggle for national unity. Conversely, Batlle, an urbane intellectual and nominally...

...Duvon G. Corbitt La mujer en la independencia de América . By de Caturla Brú Victoria . [ Biblioteca de Historia, Filosofía y Sociología, Vol. XXII .] ( Habana : Jesús Montero, Editor , 1945 . Pp. 198 . Paper.) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Batlle, heroe civil...

... of their affirmations, and their appreciation of certain values, from the reviewer s personal point of view, seem to lack sociological meaning. He cannot agree with the distinguished authors in their criticism of what they call excesiva politica de estatizacion in referring to Batlle y Orddnez, nor much less...

... branch of government. Through most of the nineteenth century, however, the country’s history was characterized by long periods of internal strife and chaos. During the first years of the twentieth century José Batlle y Ordóñez, twice president of Uruguay, brought about reforms to create a prosperous...

...; and the International Pedagogical Congress in Buenos Aires (1882)—and the transformations promoted by the movement led by José Batlle y Ordóñez (president of the republic in 1903–7 and 1911–15) on the new model for the state and the role of education. Unlike previous studies, which were exclusively concentrated...

... of Dr. Vanger’s very good study of the Batlle administrations helped fill the void. Now Dr. Göran G. Lindahl, a thoroughgoing Swedish scholar, gives us in English translation an excellent analysis of the short decade from 1919 to 1933 during which time Uruguay conducted possibly the most novel political...

...), for example, despite Santos’ genuine concern for Uruguay’s economic well-being. In contrast, the author was almost worshipful in his treatment of José Batlle y Ordóñez (president, 1903-1907, 1911-1915, and Colorado party leader from 1904 until his death in 1929), although even Batlle’s admirers now admit...