Search Results for decadence

...José Jobson de Andrade Arruda; Stuart B. Schwartz; José Celso de Castro Alves Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Decadence and crisis are terms that are used interchangeably in everyday speech, but they really encapsulate essential differences in historians’ theoretical...

... oppressive. But the centuries of stultification were not to be undone in a generation or two, and Spanish universities of the nineteenth century continued to bear marks of the earlier decadence. We see, then, in the University of Alcalá an institution harboring ills typical of those which afflicted Spain...

..., and the strengthening of the state — have generally been characterized as a crucial decade in consolidating the main hallmarks of “Modern Argentina.” 1 Along with unquestionable economic and social growth, as well as the PAN’s unfailing presidential victories, there are other significant reasons why this period...

... Ochoa Gautier calls “the aural public sphere.” While much of this scholarship to date has focused on broadcasting in the United States and Western Europe, we can now add Lauren Rea's Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943 to the list of historical monographs on radio...

...J. Burton Kirkwood A fresh and well-written study, Decade of Betrayal examines the problems for both countries as they responded to the issue of repatriation. Balderrama and Rodríguez couple traditional archival research with extensive oral interviews, producing a methodology that captures...

...Charles F. Gruber United States Policy in Latin America: A Decade of Crisis and Challenge . Edited by Martz John D. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1995 . Tables. Notes. Index , xvii , 407 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $25.00 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University...

...; the wars for independence between 1868 and 1898, the struggle against the machadato in the 1930s, and the revolutionary war of the 1950s furnished the focal points. For the better part of the last two decades, the national past has served as a central coefficient of virtually all strategies...

...Thomas O. Flickema Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878 . By Warren Harris Gaylord . Austin , 1978 . Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 376 . Cloth. $17.95 . Paper. $7.50 . Copyright...

... consideration, they insist, is not reform but rather the lack of productive elasticity inherent in the plantation system. 97 Already by 1800 disparities were apparent between available slave labor and the growing demands of an expanding export market. Koval cites the case of Bahia in the final decades...

...Natalia Milanesio In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-dictatorship Argentina . By Jennifer Adair . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 188 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...

... documents, and published background accounts. To these sources may be added more than three years which he spent in Panama conducting interviews with individuals who had lived through the decade of his book. Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 The Remón Era. An Analysis of a Decade...

...Lota M. Spell A Successful Failure. The Saga of Texas, 1519-1810 . By Faulk Odie B. . Austin , 1965 . Steck-Vaughan Company . Illustrations. Index . Pp. 218 . $2.95 . The Revolutionary Decades. The Saga of Texas, 1810-1836 . By Vigness David M. . Austin , 1965...

... H istorians Look at the past . In the ease of the Conference on Latin American History we do have a history, dating from at least 1928. Briefly I should like to highlight some important developments of the past decade. During that span the Conference has moved from a determined but underdeveloped...

...Irene Depetris Chauvin A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Scenes from the Latin American Sixties . By Sorensen Diana . Cultural Memory in the Present . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 297 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Cloth , $65.00...

...Douglas W. Richmond The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910 – 1920 . By Harris Charles H. and Sadler Louis R. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2004 . Photographs. Plates. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv...

... not attempted to produce a new interpretation of the period; instead he has written a narrative history of the first decade, melding nineteenth-century accounts with modern monographs and his own sampling of archival records to provide an updated “panoramic view” of Mexico from A to Z. He places considerable...

...James D. Cochrane The United States and Latin America in the 1980s: Contending Perspectives on a Decade of Crisis . Edited by Middlebrook Kevin J. and Rico Carlos . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes . Pp. xii , 648 . Cloth...

...Peter Gregory The Economy of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo . Foreword by Hochman Harold M. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1981 . Graph. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Index . Pp. xvi , 235 . Cloth. $17.50 . Paper. $9.95...