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...Hannah Greenwald Abstract In 1879, as the Argentine army prepared a military campaign against Indigenous groups in the Pampas and Patagonia, the national government created an Indigenous colony called Colonia General Conesa. Conesa's inhabitants were expected to build homes and cultivate crops...

... dismissing men's aggressive sexuality. By illustrating the ways in which physiological development worked alongside legal cultures, class expectations, and heteronormative gender norms to create a culture of impunity around sexual assault, this article suggests that modern notions of acceptable...

... begins with political socialization and the emergence of a leftist identification, then examines the experience of leftist party members before 1970 and their high expectations of the Allende government at the moment of its inauguration. Chapters covering the “aggressive” and “defensive” phases of la...

... with the baptismal records from the 1640s to the 1760s to estimate the size of the gente ordinaria (all urban groups except Indian tributaries) and Spaniards in four different decades. Lutz uses two plausible multipliers to reach his totals: the expected number of marriages per thousand and the ratio between...

... that throughout most of the nineteenth century sugar planters in northeastern Brazil purchased field slaves because they expected good returns from such investments. The example given in this letter suggests that such may have been the case. Proof would require a thorough study. The issue of the “expected...

... is that a combination of preconceived expectations (derived initially from tropes about the Garden of Eden) and New World experiences (which rarely lived up to Edenic expectations) structured how Europeans saw and depicted the West Indies. Thus observers ranging from Christopher Columbus to poet James Grainger crafted...

... expectations of colonial encounters on their heads, revealing a land where Indian dominion allowed different practices of diplomacy, practices that privileged women, to come to the fore. And, as she notes in the closing pages of her study, “if Indian dominance was especially clear in Texas, it was likely...

... of women in convent, home, or brothel” (p. 13). Based on extensive research in Inquisition, hospital, convent, municipal, and other documents, plus judiciously culled writings of the period, she weaves a complex tapestry of information about women at two levels: (1) societal expectations for women...

... social responsibility to individuals and corporate entities, including sporting institutions. Baseball, she argues, became expected to uphold certain social welfare efforts, while concurrently serving as a “reservoir of Dominican optimism” about the future (p. 151). The idea that baseball holds...

... pesos and the deflated series gives an easy-to-grasp illustration of the importance of the monetary veil. As could be expected, the two series were correlated, the R square was 0.80. 3 Another way of interpreting the coefficient is that prices introduced an overall distortion of about 20 percent...

... experience provided a useful basis for comparison. Bixler found a basic weakness to be the lack of communication among the elements which should constitute the world of Mexican books. Mexico does have a flourishing book industry, but, in the Spanish tradition, educated Mexicans expect to buy books...

...J. H. Parry Professor Boxer’s little book is based on the Mary Flexner lectures which he delivered at Bryn Mawr in 1972. If the audience at those lectures expected magisterial encouragement for the currently fashionable proposition that women can do nearly everything that men can do, they may...

...Henry F. Dobyns Arriaga lucidly explains several disquieting realities. Despite Latin American maternal mortality rates 750 percent those of Europe, the difference in life expectancy for 15-year old girls in the two regions amounts to merely 12 days! As mortality declines, one anticipates...

...). These two monographs belong to a series on Latin America published by the Institute for Social Research of the University of Münster, Germany. In the first monograph Silva-Fuenzalida, a Latin American sociologist, distinguishes between expectations based on a technical, rational appraisal of what...

... policy of future expectations; and the third period, from June 1941 until January 1942, when relations eroded as the Americans were drawn into the conflict. The author concludes that Nazi Germany’s major problem with its Latin American foreign policy was that Germany never had a clear set of goals...

... Spain (with the highest rates found in Mexico City) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, representing one of the highest known rates of manumission by female owners in the Americas ( table 3 ). In short, male masters freed far fewer slaves than might be expected if we accept the hypothesis...

... and females. While the crude birthrate and the fertility ratio appear to have remained almost stable over the past two centuries, very marked changes have occurred in age at death and in the causes of death, as one would expect. What one might not expect is that the changes relating to death do not become...

... while minimizing local participation in decision-making, a factor that the author identifies as central to social sustainability. The second chapter considers the conflicts related to the relocation of affected populations. Based on previous experience and the expectation of steady employment, local...

... experienced a rise in social mobility and political expectation, yet the Cuban economy suffered severely due to the decline in sugar prices. Reiterating the arguments of political theorists, Domínguez maintains that Cuba’s political institutions were incapable of adjusting to such wrenching changes...