... depositing their sovereignty on each other rather than in government institutions.” In fact, the underlying idea that civic life developed in Latin America within an everlasting authoritarian context ignores the complexity, as well as the diversity, of political processes in Latin America during the long...

...Pedro Santoni 91 Pletcher, The Diplomacy , 485. For additional information on the civic militia during the Mexican War, see Santoni, “Los federalistas radicales,” 267-268, 292-299, 302-303, 340, 355-358, 361-362, 372. 90 José María Roa Barcena, Recuerdos de la invasión norteamericana...

...Robert M. Levine Internal Security and Military Power. Counterinsurgency and Civic Action in Latin America . By Barber Willard F. and Ronning C. Neale . Columbus , 1966 . Ohio State University Press . Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 338 . $6.50 . Civil-Military...

..., the European and the tropical one. In an effort to perhaps highlight historical contingency, the editors also claim that their collection establishes, overall, that individual and collective Cuban historical agents active in civic life and public culture from, say, 1876 to 1940 (the essay by Iglesias Utset...

... executions of Catholics had allowed detractors and even sympathetic observers to question the depth of civic values in Mexico. The article shows how authorities deliberately presented the hearing as the concrete realization of Calles's claim that his administration had established institutions that embodied...

... they attempted to silence. These routines took shape during daily masses, theater presentations, civic and religious rituals, confession, and, in some cases, formal training. The women's screams haunted Francisco de Aguilar. Tired and frail from chronic episodes of inflammatory arthritis, the 80-year-old...

..., derived from three traditionally masculine activities — military service, labor, and civic engagement. Olcott explores the diversity of women’s civic engagement in at least five regions of Mexico (Yucatán, Mexico City, Michoacán, Comarca Lagunera, and Guerrero) and so offers a look into regional variation...

...” as a civic, regional/national event—since abolition, in their eyes, was not only emancipation from slavery but the formal recognition of ex-slaves’ rights as citizens of the nation. Albuquerque’s first book will interest scholars of postemancipation societies, Bahian culture and regional identity...

... Havana, framed by insightful questions bearing on the contests between competing social groups for ownership of the sites constructed to spatially represent a carefully fabricated local memory. In a detailed, critical examination of El Templete—the civic monument completed in 1828 to commemorate...

... to Argentina. They simply have become more acute since the fall of Perón. They are specifically the absence of civic zeal and a sense of civic responsibility, the poor popular image of the politician and the party man, the participation of only eight per cent of the electorate in the organization...

... and the limits of state corporativism and autonomy. They place the development of Mexican civic culture in the context of longer-range Mexican historical processes. The authors utilize oral history, specific eyewitness reports, theoretical essays, and documentary sources. While some write with the elan...

..., commemorations, and other symbolic events of the official civic calendar. The strong influence of musical directors such as Germán Canseco, Diego Innes, and Amador Pérez Torres is narrated with ethnographic detail. Several descriptions of the music programs are offered, but the reader misses an inventory...

... in the solidification and circulation of ideas related to the newly forming civic and cultural identity of the newly independent Mexican state. Treated deeply and thoroughly chapter by chapter, projects from radio programming and arts curricula to puppet theater and peer literacy initiatives demonstrate both grassroots...

.... 122 On the role of the church in the Parían uprising in Mexico City, see Arrom, “Popular Politics,” 266. 121 Warren, Vagrants and Citizens . 120 Civic ceremonies to commemorate independence were important in Zacatecas, as elsewhere. September 16 was first celebrated in 1825...

... three different aspects that have been studied separately during the last three decades. However, they are closely linked with the main issues of her text: republicanism and what she calls the republican experiment. The practices she refers to are elections, civic militias or citizens in arms...

... as from later writings. The authors’ own original research consists primarily of a meticulous burrowing through archival and newspaper collections for the various civic registers carried out at different times and for tables of election results. They managed to augment and make use of a number of sources...

... century was a form of classical republicanism, given its defense of egalitarianism, its consideration of the municipality as the bastion of civic liberty, and its emphasis on citizens' political participation over the pursuit of self-interest. Yet Brading saw this republicanism as an elite matter...

... “cultivating their civic image” (p. 178), and political clubs increasingly involved in the civic mobilizations. Mostly the connections between these two pillars emerge by contrast: violent elections are counterpoised against peaceful demonstrations, factional party strife against the unanimity...

... elections. In this first chapter the authors try to answer the following questions: To what extent do residents of barrios participate in electoral politics? Do they participate in nonelectoral civic and educational activities? What national and city issues concern them (p. 15)? One of the study’s most...

... demonstrates that after Cuban independence, black civic leaders successfully participated in formal political channels. Theirs was an active struggle for finite national resources waged at the local level, one that relied heavily on the persistence of a “homogeneous construction of blackness” and a “black...