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...W. H. Masterson The Burr Conspiracy . By Abernethy Thomas Perkins . New York , 1954 . Oxford University Press . Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 301 . $6.00 . Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...Kenneth F. Kiple Sugar is Made with Blood. The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba . By Paquette Robert L. . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press , 1988 . Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Index . Pp. xvi , 346 . Cloth . $29.95...

...Stuart B. Schwartz Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808 . By Maxwell Kenneth R. . New York , 1973 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Latin American Studies, 16 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Glossary. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 289 . Cloth...

...Elizabeth W. Kiddy Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795 – 1873 . By Baralt Guillermo A. . Translated from Spanish by Ayorinde Christine . Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Notes. Glossary...

... portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot opposition or even to eliminate the poor. This article analyzes the epistemological contests that surfaced in response...

... letters of Juan Cranisbro reveal the challenges that foreign merchants faced in Peru, including chronic harassment by local authorities and efforts to undermine their trade. Despite facing conspiracies and embargoes, Cranisbro adeptly navigated the law, which highlights the ingenuity of foreign merchants...

... of the conspiracy of 1812 in Buenos Aires. His motive is to prove once and for all that the conspiracy did exist and that it was a threat to the patriot government. In both aims he succeeds in making his case. The book is divided into three sections. The first is a detailed study of the various aspects...

... attempts to overthrow the prevailing political system: The Minas Conspiracy, 1789; the Rio Conspiracy, 1794; the Bahia Conspiracy, 1798; the Pernambuco Conspiracy of 1801. He also discusses the writings of such Brazilians as Luis dos Santos Vilhena. Mota distinguishes a spectrum of opinions, from those...

... failed to appreciate the danger of military conspiracy. His apathy was encouraged by conspirators within his own cabinet, who came to believe that only the president’s resignation could save Radical personalism. Each attempt by the loyal Minister of War Dellepiane to impress upon Yrigoyen the gravity...

.... Bibliography . 203 pp. Paper, €38.00 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 This relatively short but dense work focuses not on the so-called conspiracy of Lima broadly but on the lives of three men, their extended familial and commercial relations, and how they fared under...

... conspiracy headed by Mariano Paredes in 1845 was only one of many in this period and was short-lived, this well-documented monograph provides new insight into the factions, actors, and issues which dominated Mexico after independence. The result is a multidimensional picture, involving more than just...

... skillfully probes the local and international context for abolition, with much information on slave escapes, conspiracies, revolts (especially the Aponte revolt of 1812 and the conspiracy in Matanzas in 1844), and the impact that the presence of blacks and the issue of slavery had on all aspects of Cuban...

... years he has been prominent in inter-American press affairs and reporting. As could be expected, this work—whose subtitle is “The Communist Conspiracy in Latin America” —is far from the historian’s attempted dispassionate tone of objectivity. It is written in the heat of what Mr. Dubois considers...

... supported the Trujillo dictatorship, the United States played a key but secret role in the conspiracy which led to Trujillo’s assassination on May 30, 1961. The heroism of an American Foreign Service officer, an agent of the CIA, and an expatriate American flier and his Dominican wife (who were the nerve...

... gain control of the colony. Virginia Guedea’s article on the conspiracies of 1811 provides a kind of prequel to her well-known work on the Guadalupes. She provides fascinating detail on two efforts to overthrow viceregal power in its own capital; some inhabitants of the capital expanded on the normal...

..., as the island became the largest producer for the global markets, Spanish authorities saw British abolitionism as a threat to their sovereignty. In 1844, they claimed to have identified an antislavery conspiracy in Cuba's sugar-producing heart (Matanzas), which they blamed on British abolitionists and a group...

..., and these in turn begat more laws and more bureaucrats. The astonishing thing about this endless process is that the Spanish empire survived some centuries of it, and it survived, I imagine, because of a tacit conspiracy among ordinary folks to circumvent the law—no very difficult matter usually, because...

... such astonishing statements as: “In the Conspiracy of Venice we are told the story of a conspiracy” (p. 417). There are amazingly few misprints. (Some noted are: Sempronio, p. 71; Atahualpa , p. 388; and Macias, p. 503. Also Juana la Beltraneja wanted the throne of Spain, not Portugal, p. 197.) The format...