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Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1750
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 522–523.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Antonio García García Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1750 . By Christoph Rosenmüller . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xv, 341 pp. Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (4): 771–801.
Published: 01 November 1988
..., and friendship, on which the elite structured itself internally. The series of examples presented further underscores the fact that corruption was the process by which the local representatives of central authority, both military and civilian, integrated themselves into that elite, thereby associating...
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Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Anne G. Rubenstein Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption . By Niblo Stephen R. . Wilmington, Del : Scholarly Resources , 1999 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Bibliography. Index . xxv , 408 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University...
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State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910 – 1952: Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 571–572.
Published: 01 August 2011
... vision of how Mexican governors survived despite their initial unpopularity and often crass and flagrant corruption. Despite Leyva Mancilla’s errors, he managed to last out his gubernatorial term by widening the ambit of official graft in Acapulco, distancing himself from political violence, ironing out...
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Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 295–297.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Stuart B. Schwartz Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks . Edited by Rosenmüller Christoph . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2017 . Maps. Notes. Glossary. Index. viii, 228 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...
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Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 364–366.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Christoph Rosenmüller Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World . By Myrup Erik Lars . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 241 pp. Cloth , $42.50 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke...
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“Corrupted by Ambition”: Justice and Patronage in Imperial New Spain and Spain, 1650–1755
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Christoph Rosenmüller Abstract Renewed interest in the linkage between finance and the state has led historians to reexamine corruption. While there is scholarly consensus that the royal sale of appointments ( beneficio ) corrupted governance and weakened royal authority in a stagnant Spanish...
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A View from the Corner Bar: Sérgio Porto’s Satirical Crônicas and the Democradura
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 507–535.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Bryan McCann Abstract This article explores the nature and influence of the satirical journalism of Sérgio Porto, alias Stanislaw Ponte Preta, in Brazil from 1964 to 1968. Porto’s daily column in the Última Hora newspaper lampooned the Brazilian military dictatorship for its corruption, self...
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“Dádivas, dones y dineros”: Aportes a una nueva historia de la corrupción en América Latina desde el imperio español a la modernidad
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Charles H. Blake The second half of this volume consists of six case studies of corruption in distinct time periods of the postindependence era. Pablo Whipple provides a detailed assessment of the role of lawyers in mid-nineteenth-century Peru and of the evolving debate regarding how the broader...
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Historia de La Corrupción En El Perú
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 569–571.
Published: 01 August 2016
... corruption exists in all countries, but some societies are more successful than others in curtailing improbity. Constant vigilance is required. Corruption has negative socioeconomic consequences that affect economic development. Peruvian corruption has its roots in the patrimonial colonial society...
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Vicios públicos, virtudes privadas: La corrupción en México
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 February 2002
... that goal, demonstrating convincingly the constructed nature of its topic. It is not, however, the book spanning the history of corruption in Mexico that one might hope for: only three essays (by Solange Alberro, Linda Arnold, and Enrique Semo) treat the colonial period and nineteenth century, while nine...
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Corrupción: Metáfora de Ambición Y Deseo
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 February 2016
... y concubinato a finales de la colonia in 2004, he made clear that, although he had not abandoned archival work or the power of quantitative approaches, he would be writing with more soul. In this vein, he has given us this unconventional book, a passionately presented argument that corruption has...
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Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in itself, the story of the French immigrants may actually detract from his discussion of crony capitalism in Mexico more generally, since “ethnic entrepreneurship” brings with it a variety of distinct variables of its own that Galindo does not adequately analyze. The marriage of these two topics—corruption...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (3): 575–576.
Published: 01 August 1981
... and flight capital due to political corruption. The author’s intent is to lay a basis for rational choice between acquiescence in blind historical forces and free human decisions in the quest for economic development. He shows that education is an accurate predictor of income inequality but does not treat...
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Peruvian Cocaine Tangles: Arrests and Assertions of Innocence in Ayacucho's Drug Trade, 1976–1981
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
... statement “energetically condemn[ed] the illegal conduct of Judge Rubén Saenz Ramírez, for not duly carrying out the obligations that stem from his post and for trying to use that post to commit acts of impermissible retaliation.” 117 Yet despite all the evidence of their corruption and their involvement...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 February 1968
... legislation; capital that flows to foreign bank accounts at the rate of more than $1 billion dollars a year . . .; racism so rooted in tradition that no one notices it; corruption so deep-seated that no one protests it; political ‘reformers’ activated by lust for power unadulturated [ sic ] by humanity...
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Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 February 1984
... as a potential threat to Mexican political stability, and as evidence of the status of political pluralism. An important principle emerges: it is not so much dissent that the regime fears as independent dissent that is potentially immune to reprisal. Corruption is cited in various contexts, including its role...
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A Present Past: The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the 1964 Coup
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 763–764.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of intervening effectively in Brazil was the United States. Another myth debunked by the author is that the dictatorship ended corruption in Brazil. In chapter 8, he shows that while military leaders punished political opponents accused of corruption, they protected allied political, administrative, and business...
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The Smugglers' World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 349–351.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... He presents a complex picture of a society supported by illegal, corrupt behaviors and a peculiar morality that connected Venezuelans and Europeans in the Caribbean in unsuspected, sustained, and creative ways. Cromwell examines the long history of imperial disdain for Venezuela, marginalized...
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Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 740–741.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and inspired to be suspicious of the PRI by the Cuban Revolution that same year. Chapter 1 considers El Diario de Yucatán and the maverick reporting of Mario Menéndez Rodríguez on corruption among officials in his state's vital henequen sector in 1963. The scandal, inflamed as agrarian organizers brought...
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