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...Carlos E. Santiago The book’s only weak part is its assessment of the effects of the boycott. The author uses rather crude statistical techniques to examine particular trends among variables. However, it is inappropriate to suggest causal relations based on simple correlation coefficients...

... of regressive politics” (p. 9). In the process, she charts a history of new exhibition venues and evolving critical attitudes that emerged within a tumultuous climate of uncertainty that reached beyond Brazilian borders. Calirman’s first chapter, which evaluates the international boycott of the X Bienal de...

... exploring advertising campaigns for grapes developed by Californian and Chilean growers to influence US consumers, the meaning of working-class consumption and women's employment in the grape industry, grape boycotts organized by a variety of progressive groups in the United States, or the political...

... completely shut down this industrial city in northeastern Buenos Aires Province, a hotbed of labor militancy that had seen major strikes in oil refineries, paper plants, and the Las Palmas meatpacking facility. The anarchist-led movements evoked great solidarity. Boycotts made it difficult for the police...

... moving events is most clearly exposed. After dealing at length with the failure of the Cuban Revolution, Mitchell finally tells us that “Cuba’s economy has crumbled under the weight of the U.S. boycott” (p. 48). No further elaboration is offered. On the one hand the listing of failures which preceded...

... the workers' cause in 1909 and declared a boycott on hiring, while the mainstream press came to the company's defense. The paulista labor federation backed the boycott, and after 1912 stoppages and strikes slowed progress. By 1913 the company was racing to complete the railroad in the face of a widespread...

... announced a boycott of the state-sponsored festival, they protested intensifying army violence against indigenous communities, referring explicitly to a recent army massacre of Q’eqchi’ Maya campesinos in the community of Panzós, Alta Verapaz. While the blood of “genuine Guatemalan indios...

... confronted an international boycott of her oil exports, which endangered her program of economic development, she sold huge quantities of oil to Germany which helped to fuel the German war machine, notably during the late stages of the Spanish Civil War and during the invasions of France and the Low...

... the struggle of the union during the late 1960s to organize workers, the boycott of table grapes, the signing of contracts in 1970. Books VI and VII poignantly detail the UFWA struggle to survive the collusion between the Teamsters and growers, and attacks from the Nixon administration. The book closes...

... of the Bolivian elected government. No respecter of persons, obviously, Beals also condemns the Kennedy administration for “using every effort of diplomacy, economic boycott, warlike demonstrations, airplane violations . . . to coerce and terrorize the Cuban people . . . the perpetrators violating U. S...

... strongly in nonviolence) but through strikes, marches, and consumer boycotts. The fight transformed the lives of FLOC members, giving them a greater sense of personal security and responsibility to themselves and their families. Equally important, the arrangement with the growers and the agribusiness firms...

... regarded the Chilean Congressionalists as Confederates (p. 38); and that the Baltimore incident probably caused Chile to boycott the Columbian Exposition and side with Spain in 1898 (p. 142). A U.S. investigation team, claiming that the local police had turned a blind eye to the fighting, held...

... of Royal Dutch Shell, and the British ambassador in Mexico City, unlike his U.S. counterpart, was antagonistic rather than placatory towards the Cárdenas regime. The result was a boycott of Mexican oil exports and the rupture of diplomatic relations, harming other business interests and making British...

... and its spiritual nature, Cárdenas was being forced to move toward a centralist policy because labor leaders, bankers, industrialists, boycott activists from the United States (a result of oil expropriation), and the expanding war in Europe carried a rising middle class toward the center. This book...

... oil imports reached a low point in 1936, but despite the boycott by the oil companies of purchases of Mexican oil, imports increased over the next few years, although at lower prices. In 1947 and 1948, a decade after Mexico nationalized the oil companies in 1938, accords were reached; indemnity would...

... so thoroughly disillusioned with the coordination of protests and boycotts by their elder coreligionists because, although powerful, such actions failed to overthrow the regime or halt its anticlerical policies. As a result, the younger generation embraced sloppy, half-baked schemes meant to stir...

... in Buenos Aires. The simple act of women at a community kitchen debating whether to purchase a tank of propane instead of using wood fires demonstrated how oil consumption was gendered and class-based. The forms of protest against the neoliberal reforms, especially the boycott against Shell and Exxon...

... that encompassed port cities in China, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Romero demonstrates how discourses of the Chinese as “yellow peril” took on a unique character in the context of Mexican revolutionary nationalism. The organized anti-Chinese campaigns included boycotts, lootings...

..., variegated set of actions—resistance, protest, rebellion, border crossings, rallies, appeals to authorities and public opinion on both sides of the border, litigation, boycotts, marches, land invasions, alternative histories, and antimonuments—as Mexican Americans mobilized and organized to stake out what...

..., amparo lawsuits, boycotts against specific businesses, and massive displays of social mourning, among other means. The relative success of these campaigns prompted the emergence of a Catholic labor union movement that, in theory, shared the same social spirit of the 1917 constitution. Local...