...Marc Eagle [email protected] The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery . By Randy M. Browne . Early American Studies . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2024 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. 213 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Copyright ©...

... it was forged and more by its power to materially symbolize all the historical contexts in which this itinerant object traveled. junia ferreira furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais doi 10.1215/00182168-11676638 The Driver s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By randy m. browne...

... of survival under some of the most horrid living conditions in the Americas (p. 4). After an outline of Berbice during the beginnings of British rule, chapter 2 emphasizes that judicial complaints by enslaved people were generated because of the excesses of masters and slave drivers, which surpassed...

... introduced federal automotive legislation in 1941, the penalties on drivers for violent, negligent accidents were minimal. Reforms in 1966 actually removed speed limits (pp. 209, 223). Traffic deaths mounted as cars consumed the street. No public space was sacred. In chapter 6, Miller uses popular songs...

... of acoustic costuming. Simari performs all six characters: the conductor, driver, and four passengers (although references to the overcrowding of the bus suggest many more bodies than those we hear). Additional sound and vocal effects—horns, bells, and squealing brakes—complete the acoustic staging...

... influence from party politicking, which ruins and corrupts everything.” 128 These attempts to maintain an apolitical syndicalist line failed soon after. Pro-APRA military insurrections in Lima, Ayacucho, and Huancavelica in November 1934 followed a series of strikes in Lima (by taxi drivers) and Trujillo...

...Manoel da S. S. Cardozo The Indian in Brazilian Literature . By Driver David Miller . ( New York : Hispanic Institute in the United States , 1942 . Pp. 190 . Paper.) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ...

... identity which now appears to have been fairly well resolved, wrote a series of six short novels intended to describe the background and nature of the Mexican Revolution. Through the story of a driver of a carreta drawn by yoked oxen carrying freight between the villages of Chiapas, the author sketches...

... biography of Hidalgo (University of Florida Press), it will make available for students of Mexican history a clearer picture of the rebel cause. Born in 1765 in Valladolid, Morelos served as a mule-driver before beginning studies for the priesthood at the age of 25. Seven years later, in 1797, he...

... the crucial difference, and their drivers, who “sell” the advantages of city life along the country roads), and the most insignificant of which (to this reviewer) is that venerable and meaningless cliché: “widespread social ferment among the masses, among the descendants of those who for centuries were so...

... connecting with Tzvetan Todorov’s work La conquête de l’Amérique: la question de l’autre (1982), Obeyesekere challenges his readers to remember the emotional aspects of early modern contacts by dedicating his work to his Sri Lankan driver, Wijedasa, a victim of the terror that defines much of contemporary...

... by Señora Sara Pérez Madero (the president’s widow) do not meet the rigorous demands of scientific detachment (pp. 163-168). Approximately one third of the book is devoted to an analysis of the assassinations. The testimony of the drivers of the two cars, the guards of the penitentiary in front of which...

.... Between 1970 and 1990, this almost doubled, from 2.6 million to 5.1 million. From a Malthusian perspective, uncontrolled population growth may have been the primary “driver” of environmental degradation and associated rural impoverishment, with factors such as unequal patterns of land tenure and misguided...

... of the owners/drivers, cargo, destination, and cost of transport for some 272 trips during that year are cataloged. Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Camino real y carrera larga: la arriería en la Nueva España durante el siglo XVIII . By Argüello Clara Elena Suárez . Mexico City...

... of the colonial past. Unfazed by the criticism, he continued his efforts to maintain control in Peru and to confront the spreading violence in the surrounding regions. The restoration of Ferdinand VII and the scuttling of the liberal constitution put Abascal and absolutism back in the driver’s seat...

... hides, and sheep raising. Yet in concentrating on the livestock estate exclusively, Amaral seems to neglect how the entire economic complex evolved on the Pampas. He does not discuss the meat-salting factories, cattle drivers, carters, and rural shopkeepers who contributed to the efficiencies...

..., Indiana, and completed a master’s degree at the University of Chicago in early modern European history (1964). To support his studies, he worked as a Chicago bus driver. Returning to his interest in Latin America, Konrad studied for the Ph.D. in anthropology and history with professors Julian Pitt-Rivers...

... to a rationalized system of standards and practices but at the whim of the planter and the overseers and drivers (often slaves themselves) who administered the punishments imposed. Offending slaves were flogged on the plantation or sentenced to confinement and flogging in workhouses. The British Emancipation...