...Peter H. Smith The Political Elite in Argentina . By Fernández Julio A. . Foreword by Fitzgebbon Russell H. . New York , 1970 . New York University Press . Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 133 . Cloth. $7.95 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press...

...William H. Beezley Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1814-1911 . By Wasserman Mark . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1984 . Map. Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Epilog. Appendix. Bibliography. Index...

...Paul J. Vanderwood Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915 . By Wells Allen and Joseph Gilbert M. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1996 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography...

...Murdo J. Macleod Veracruz Merchants, 1770–1829: A Merchant Elite in Late Bourbon and Early Independent Mexico . By Booker Jackie R. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 191 pp. Paper . $47.50 . Copyright...

... taxes; more important, tribute payment conferred a right to agricultural land, the “moral economy of the Andes.” Only in 1854 did tribute officially end. Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 En pos del tributo: burocracia estatal, elite regional, y comunidades indígenas en el Cusco...

...Roy Hora Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Using a reconstruction of the history of Felipe Senillosa and his family as a point of departure, this article examines the nineteenth-century Buenos Aires entrepreneurial elite, with particular reference to the way this group developed...

...John E. Kicza La fortaleza docta: Elite letrada y dominación social en México colonial (siglos XVI–XVII) . By Mena Magdalena Chocano . Barcelona : Ediciones Bellaterra , 2000 . Illustrations. Tables. Figure. Bibliography. Index . 415 pp. Paper . Copyright 2003 by Duke...

...O. Carlos Stoetzer Die Entstehung des Föderalismus in Mexiko: Die politische Elite Oaxacas zwischen Stadt, Region und Staat, 1786–1835 . By Hensel Silke . Studien zur modernen Geschichte, no. 49 . Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1997 . Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary...

...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism . By Go Julian . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi...

...Eugenio Piñero The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 . By Ferry Robert J. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1989 . Charts. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 342 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1992 by Duke...

... of people trying to “invent a drought” so as to profit from relief efforts. 8 While traditional partisan politics accounted for some of this rhetoric, the wide-ranging critique occasioned by the Great Drought bespoke deeper concerns. 9 Indeed, elite discourse on the drought formed part of a larger...

... or cultural characteristics. 70 Manuel Ancízar, Peregrinación de Alpha por las provincias del Norte de la Nueva Granada, en 1850-51 (Bogotá, 1956), 315. 71 Ibid., 321. Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 In the nineteenth century, elites in various Spanish American...

...Stuart F. Voss The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880-1940 . By Saragoza Alex M. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1988 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 258 . Cloth . $30.00 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

...Eugene Ridings A Tropical Belle Époque: The Elite Culture of Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro . By Needell Jeffrey D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1987 . Maps. Photographs. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 351 . Cloth . $45.00...

...Jeffrey D. Needell The Prados of São Paulo, Brazil: An Elite Family and Social Change . By Levi Darrell E. . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1987 . Map. Tables. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 284 . Cloth . $32.00 . Copyright 1988...

... Susanna Nesbitt Becerra. It was a gala occasion, perhaps the first such social event since the days of the Porfiriato. The wedding was an important political, as well as social, landmark. The marriage brought together two powerful subregional elite families with strong bases in the western districts...

... multicultural elite. In doing so, he provides a text useful for graduate seminars on Latin American development, society, and economy, as well as on the methodology of prosopography. One drawback of the book is that a key argument—pointed to by the inclusion of “ethnic entrepreneurs” and “Franco-Mexican...

...Lyman L. Johnson Fearful Vassals: Urban Elite Loyalty in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata, 1776–1810 . By Peter Blanchard . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2020 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x, 285 pp. Cloth, $45.00...

... of administrators into the elite is part of a pattern of interdependence which made crown officials sensitive to colonial desires, it might appear that at least this part of the structure of informal control broke down during the period. Looking at the creations and foundations made after 1755 (and ignoring...

... of the Mexican population. 3 Defined by occupation, at least three-quarters of all American-born Spaniards belonged to the upper ranks of the populace rather than to any elite. One consequence of the expansion, not to say dilution of the Spanish group, was that only the peninsulares , immigrants from...