..., the coalitions championed the economic and social rights of the poor, fostered a rhetoric of citizen entitlement among popular sectors, and sought to democratize public services. 2 Yet as this essay argues, not all impoverished Chileans benefited equally from popular-front efforts to expand state services...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Obregón’s History of 16th Century Explorations in Western America entitled Chronicle, Commentary, or Relation of the Ancient and Modern Discoveries in New Spain and New Mexico, Mexico, 1584 . Translated, edited, and annotated by Hammond George P. and Rey Agapito...

... understanding of Peronism in new directions. First, it shows the economic, political, and iconographic centrality of food for state planning, commercial culture, public health, and definitions of social, national, and physical well-being. Second, the essay reinterprets nationalism and social entitlement...

... empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corrupt and that making them judges violated distributive justice, or the fair awarding of entitlements by traditional...

... essay, by Juan Esteban Beliza, is entitled “La expedición al desierto y el amanecer de las misiones salesianas patagónicas,” and it sets the stage by treating two converging themes: first, the historical background to the expedition; second, the missionary dreams of Italian-born Juan Bosco, who founded...

... and Peru. In collaboration with Enriqueta Vila Vilar, he is currently finishing a book entitled Una historia política del Consulado de Sevilla / Cádiz, 1543-1778. amos megged is a lecturer in history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge...

... Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 This issue explores efforts by those outside the boundaries of privilege in twentieth-century Latin America to claim the dignity and resources to which they believed themselves entitled — despite elite rhetoric and official practice...

... doctors as the only professional group legitimately entitled to practice what was then called el arte de curar . In so doing, Curar, persuadir, gobernar explores doctors’ efforts to be heard by the state, their attempts to corner the market and criminalize any competitors—from popular healers...

... Guatemala,” Martha Few (University of Miami) used Inquisition records to demonstrate that female “witches” used their own bodies as ritual weapons in community conflicts. In his paper, entitled “Performing Masculinity: The Yucatecan Maya Male Body in the Eighteenth Century,” Pete Sigal (California State...

... of Miami Business and Populist Alliances in Latin America: A Second Look This panel consisted of three excellent papers, all of which fitted the announced theme very well. The first, by Barbara Weinstein (SUNY, Stony Brook), was entitled “The Politics of Social Peace: São Paulo Industrialists...

... entitled “The Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and the Academic Community: Perspectives for the Future.” Dr. Carter briefly outlined the historical development of the Hispanic Division as well as plans for new projects. He called for increased cooperation with and input from the scholarly...

... an Africanist’s perspective and entitles his contribution “Angola in the Sixteenth Century—Um mundo que o português encontrou.” Miller asserts that “Camões’s compatriots often followed African initiatives and survived only by drawing on recognizable African analogues of their own practices, thereby fitting...

... deputies for each three districts, as provided in the Mexican instruction of November 17, the Central American provinces were entitled to elect only thirty-four deputies, at most, to the Constituent Congress of 1822, rather than the forty that Iturbide had judged a prudent number. After the Guatemalan...

.... The section “History and Culture” has a chapter devoted to a chronological outline of Latin American colonial history, and the following chapter is entitled “The Basis of Pre-Columbian Art.” Next comes a discussion of the Church in Latin America which touches many modern problems. The sequence is hardly...

... collects six essays of the late Paredes, of which the incomplete study of Melgarejo is the longest and has about seventy pages. The others deal with Ballivián, Belzú, and René-Moreno. There is also a short essay entitled “Los estudios históricos en Bolivia.” Another essay deals with the Mojos and Chiquitos...

... the Madero revolution. These are followed by Cabrera’s open letter to Madero relative to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez and his 1911 article entitled with the famous injunction that “La Revolución es la Revolución.” Luquín has annotated these selections all of which Cabrera had included in his volume of Blas...

... entitled “The Making of Ecuador’s ‘ Pueblo Católico ’” forthcoming in Cristóbal Aljovin and Nils Jacobsen’s edited volume Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750–1950 (Duke Univ. Press). He is currently working on a book manuscript, A Truly Catholic Nation: Politics and Religion in Ecuador, 1845–1895...

... on the emergence of coffee culture in midnineteenth-century Central America, focusing on Guatemala and El Salvador in addition to Costa Rica. robert h. jackson completed his dissertation entitled “Liberal Land and Economic Policy and the Transformation of the Rural Sector of the Bolivian Economy: The Case...

... pablo yankelevich received his doctorate in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and is a professor and researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. He is currently working on projects entitled “Nación y extranjería en el siglo XX...

... is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. Recently, Terraciano received the Heizer Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory for his article entitled “Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note” ( Ethnohistory 45:4, 1998). He continues to work with colonial Mixtec...