... of the twentieth re ected and simultaneously shaped the city s social and political world. She also argues that theater helped de ne the physical world of the city. She posits that scholars have underestimated the impact on Buenos Aires of the theater, which during this period, as she points out, was the most...

... literature and are contextualized to demonstrate how this literature responded to contemporary anxieties. Chapter 5 compares two origin stories, written decades apart, for the Virgin of Caysasay. The chapter, which argues that the differing stories re ect the concerns of their authors at the time...

... and even canon law is untrue (p. 87). The religious were subject to the law; their impunity re ected a lack of enforceability, as Patricio Hidalgo Nuchera has explored, not a de jure exemption. As generations of legal scholars have demonstrated, the crown s civil administration was not analogous...

... advisers particularly deftly. Crucial context for understanding La camada s wordplay, however, seemed to be missing. To what extent did it re ect the broader logophilia that Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo has identi ed as a key interest of early twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals? By focusing on writerly...

..., and Selected Topics. Despite this structure, each chapter develops its own chronology to analyze legal changes in a speci c geographic space. All the authors re ect on legal change across the colonial era, independence, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a few authors extend their re ections...

... rights, is a highlight of the book, demonstrating keen analysis and providing additional historical background. Chapter 3 re ects on the estallido s use of evadir (evade) as a catchword that began as a call to jump metro turnstiles and developed into a call for collective action. Chapters 4 and 5...

... a constitution that re ected the demands of everyday Brazilians. According to historian Daniel McDonald, popular participation in the constituent process became both the means and end of contesting the lingering legacies of authoritarianism, without which a truly democratic Brazil could not emerge. 4 Echoing...

... smelted 12 20 percent of New Granada s gold production, a sizable amount that historians have not included in their estimates. These numbers re ect the importance of placer mining in Caribbean New Granada and northeastern Antioquia Province, for which the essay offers new evidence to understand its...

.... Bibliography. Index. xv, 332 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Kristen L. McCleary has written an intriguing study of how theater in Buenos Aires in the second half of the nineteenth century and the rst two decades of the twentieth re ected and simultaneously shaped the city s social and political world. She also argues...

..., and other provinces. He contends that there was no neat separation between forced migration of enslaved people and subsidized free migration by providing examples of planters who pursued both options. Colonization efforts not only were a response to the closure of the African slave trade but re ected both...

... of Cincinnati s University Research Council and Latino Faculty Association. The arguments and ndings expressed in this article do not necessarily re ect the views of the National Endowment for the Humanities or any other funding agencies. 1. Testimonio de autos sobre la aparicio´ n de la Virgen a una india...

..., and how did Hispaniola s failed annexation and the Mexican expedition affect the subsequent Cuban wars for independence? How did Anglo-American and French proto- and pseudoscienti c views of race and culture in ect Spanish perceptions about their own ethnic fault lines and long-standing colonial practices...

... affect the subsequent Cuban wars for independence? How did Anglo-American and French proto- and pseudoscienti c views of race and culture in ect Spanish perceptions about their own ethnic fault lines and long-standing colonial practices of acculturation, mestizaje, and casta rule? Did Caribbean...

... ects the diverse group of authors, mostly men and mostly from North American and European universities. The result is a rich overview, albeit necessarily incomplete and partial. For example, chapters focused on war may lack discussions on politics or migration, those centered on circulation may offer...

... voladores) to re ect on ethnographic efforts at cultural preservation in the second half of the twentieth century. These are tied together as bits and pieces of a relatively coherent aesthetic project. This montage is held together by a loosely shared timeline and the trope of visibility, which Salas...

... López’s accusations in Contestación al cuaderno titulado “El desengaño o confidencias de Ambrosio López ect.” por El presidente que fue de la Sociedad de Artesanos el 7 de marzo de 1849 (Bogotá, 1851). López defended his stance in El triunfo sobre la serpiente roja, cuyo asunto es del dominio de la...

... Re ecting its authoritarian view of politics, Estada o believed that a government tougher in repressing its enemies would be more faithful to the supposedly democratic ideals of 1964. But these hopes for Costa e Silva quickly faded. Over the course of 1968, the newspaper de nitively distanced itself...