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..., the author often details at length diplomatic and political events which are common knowledge among historians, yet fails to explain many legal terms and concepts, undoubtedly well-known among lawyers, but less frequently used by historians alien to the bar. The author’s objective is primarily...

...Samuel Flagg Bemis Toward Our Common American Destiny . ( Speeches and Interviews on Latin American Problems .) By Cabot John M. . Medford , 1955 . Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . Printed in English and Spanish editions . Pp. xvii , 214 . Price $3.50 . Copyright 1956...

...Juan Javier Pescador Nevertheless, Standing on Common Ground represents a significant contribution to the history of the borderlands and in particular the inseparable connections that have brought together, for good and bad, communities in Sonora and Arizona. Scholars, students...

...Joel Horowitz Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food . By Pite Rebekah E. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 326 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright ©...

...Woodrow Borah Do the Americas Have A Common History? A Critique of the Bolton Theory . Edited with an Introduction by Hanke Lewis . New York , 1964 . Alfred A. Knopf . Borzoi Books on Latin America . Pp. 269 . Paper . $2.75 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965...

...Clark W. Reynolds A Latin American Common Market? By Dell Sidney . New York , 1966 . Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs . Maps. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 336 . $8.80 . Latin America and the European Economic...

...D. M. P. The Central American Common Market: Profits & Problems in an Integrating Economy . New York , 1969 . Business International Corporation . Map. Tables. Appendices . Pp. 67 . Paper. $50.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 This research report is one...

...José Carlos de la Puente Luna Abstract Although much has been written about Indigenous land tenure in the Americas, colonial Andeanists still debate whether pre-Hispanic agropastoral communities held all pasture and farmland in common and, therefore, whether novel forms of private or individual...

... as insightful findings for the culture history of the Andes from Inca times until 1990. This is a model of historical and anthropological research written with exceptional clarity. Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons...

..., and witnesses, their shared itineraries, and how these itineraries changed over time. Thus they reveal patterns of geographical mobility and networks created by common experiences. Marriage files can be easily quantified, which allows us to track historical trends. At the same time, each file offers a unique...

... the common treatment of racial identification as a fixed and self-evident determinant of social status or behavior, we treat it as a flexible social outcome. We find that though white identification is largely shaped by skin color, it is also shaped by national context, social status, and age. We discover...

... instrumental in consolidating a culture of dissent that helped destabilize the unanimity principle underlying the monarchical imaginary, a principle that deemed nonconforming opinions a societal pathology incompatible with the sovereign's will and the common good. The rise of this contentious politics helped...

... of religious matters in modern societies. The practice of lay patronage—which was common in America, as it was in Europe for centuries—channeled family wealth into the financial support of certain institutions, which in turn allowed lay patrons to intervene in decisions about religious life. In the case...

... for their children and often used legal measures to protect them from abusive labor practices common to mining towns. Ultimately, this article argues that indigenous women’s roles above ground were as important as those performed by their male, silver-extracting counterparts below ground. Copyright 2013 by Duke...

... obreros and the murgas populares , with attention to both the political discourses from above and the everyday music practices from below. I show that, far from being inspired by common interest or nationalist sentiment alone, the ruling elites turned to cultural politics as an arena through which...

... common instruments in the metropolis but were not infrequently applied with singular severity in the colonies. In the case of Spanish America in the second half of the eighteenth century, the nature of coercion and the brutal response to popular protests (particularly tax revolts) have been analyzed...

... that required a high level of personal trust. By using a previously unstudied cache of confiscated letters, this article shows that transatlantic travel, friendship, common regional and ethnic origin, and the increasing flow of information played a far more important part in the articulation of Spanish colonial...

... in America. In doing so, they reoriented the imagined metrics of purity so as to distinguish themselves from native commoners, mestizos, and the descendants of Africans. However, applying limpieza in native communities could backfire: after two centuries of extensive race mixing, many native lords found...

...Mark Lentz Abstract Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters...