...Fernando Purcell Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960 . By Rivero Yeidy M. . Console-ing Passions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 252 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Erik Ching An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914. By aldo a. lauria-santiago. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. viii, 326 pp. Cloth,$45. Paper...

... a wide variety of commercial and political contacts, it argues that honor symbolized the value and reliability of exchange partners among all elite groups, but differences in the nature of exchanges led to different means of gauging honor. Landowners involved mainly in local face-to-face exchanges...

...Fidel J. Tavárez Abstract After implementing comercio libre (free internal trade) in 1778, the Spanish crown endeavored to create multiple new consulados (chambers of commerce) to facilitate commercial exchange within Spain's Atlantic territories. However, while the crown established new...

... for labor that arose in the early seventeenth century as commercial agriculture briefly boomed amid persistent indigenous population decline. Thanks to Chris Lutz for comments on material contained in this article as well as other research support, to José Curto and Kym Morrison for helpful...

... understanding of Peronism in new directions. First, it shows the economic, political, and iconographic centrality of food for state planning, commercial culture, public health, and definitions of social, national, and physical well-being. Second, the essay reinterprets nationalism and social entitlement...

... recognition, arms, recruits, and financial backing for their emancipation movements. Countless others remained at home in Spanish America but allied themselves with Britain through their commercial ventures, their ideological affiliation, or their enthusiastic emulation of British institutions, inventions...

... like their Old Christian equivalents. The Portuguese lived throughout Lima and its port, Callao; shared public and private spaces with people of diverse social backgrounds; and established personal and commercial relations with them. Religiously, the Portuguese maintained practices similar to those of...

... transfer of ownership, however, was the nation's Commercial Code, which required married women to provide their husbands' written authorization for any and all commercial endeavors. 2 Carlos Andorim denied his wife permission to participate in the business. It was only when Benedicta appealed to the...

... mobility. According to Hiatt, celebration of Velasco Astete's flight became closely associated with the indigenismo of the 1930s and 1940s. Beginning in 1928, commercial aviation arrived in the Amazon region. The first commercial line in Peru served Iquitos, which underscored the interior region's...

... 2003 Contributors paul gootenberg is Professor of History and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Stony Brook University. His previous books are Between Silver and Guano: Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru (1989), Imagining Development: Economic...

... economic impact of railroads, she has researched Mexico’s foreign trade and commercial policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. renato monseff perissinotto é professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciências Sociais na Universidade Federal do Paraná...

... production and distribution of wealth take center stage for a sweeping view of Mexican history that bristles with extended examples, arresting surmises, connections, nuggets of information, and a strong sense of what was changing as silver and commercial capitalism during the colonial period gave way to...

... Brazil, not just through its slave trade, which is well known, but also through its commercial economy. And Brazil was deeply involved in Angola as well, both commercially and administratively. Many people moved both ways across the Atlantic, bringing family, servants, and clients along with them. Often...

... and American tobacco all were introduced as elite luxury goods and slowly became mass consumption items. For this to occur, the major European overseas traders had to change basic mercantile and even medieval ideas about luxury consumption and had to modernize their commercial relations. This was...

... denunciations of human rights violations, the dictatorship managed to avoid marginalization in the United Nations and other international forums. The dictatorship's triumph was even more convincing in the world of international commercial relations. With few exceptions, says Sheinin, the military government...

.... Hispanic American Historical Review 87:1 doi 10.1215/00182168-2006-089 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 112 HAHR / February / Elena array of policies intended to impose order on market forces, punish commercial criminals, and uplift consumers...

... continuing concerns until his fall and exile. Bustos Rodríguez argues that thereafter minister of the Indies Julián de Arriaga calmed the consulado, normalizing commercial operations, albeit only momentarily. In the book's second section, Bustos Rodríguez charts the guild's stubborn but unsuccessful battle...

... showed “how much” illegal trade took place but also “how” contrabandists traded. Thus, in my opinion, the debate should focus more on the nature of authority over commercial transactions, not on the quantity of contraband goods. The authority of colonial...

... the commercial system, supplied until 1717 by the Galeones emanating from Seville and after 1717 from Cádiz. It connected overland to Panama City on the Pacific Ocean. Over the years, massive amounts of Peruvian silver crossed the isthmus to finance the fairs celebrated in Portobelo or for remission...