... of professional agitators, are to be able to dominate the whole economic and industrial life of the country. 28 General strikes rocked five cities besides the capital. While some failed miserably, the two strikes in Campana completely shut down this industrial city in northeastern Buenos Aires Province...

... about insecurity and violence, the contributors to Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State wade into a topic that has received disproportionate attention in the scholarly literature on Guatemala. The very proliferation of such studies is a reflection of the many...

... to the crucial role of microeconomic and geographic factors that shaped the organization of the wild rubber industry, making current explanations of the industry’s failures highly problematic. Second, each of the principal problems—supply responsiveness, social relations of extraction, and failed plantation...

...T.K. Disaster in Chile: Allende’s Strategy and Why it Failed . Edited by Evans Les . New York , 1974 . Pathfinder Press . Tables. Graph. Appendix . Pp. 271 . Cloth. $10.00 ; Paper. $2.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 This is a collection of articles...

... involvement in the genesis and financing of the allied war effort. This article instead focuses on the postwar behavior of the British government, exploring its attitude to the 892 mainly English colonists of the failed 1872–73 Lincolnshire farmers emigration scheme to Paraguay. The British government's open...

... closed the constituent assembly in November 1823 and imposed a constitution in March 1824. They also evinced strong sympathy with the Confederação do Equador rebellion centered in Pernambuco, although the Bahian movements failed to establish a formal connection with that province’s resistance...

... half of the nineteenth century, debates over geology, archaeology, and history reflected conflicting Liberal and Conservative political projects. Moreover, the midcentury intellectuals failed to incorporate contemporaneous indigenous and poor citizens into an imagined national community based...

... violence but then quickly rebounded. Second, did the post-independence judicial system effectively integrate liberal legislative reforms into courtroom standards and practices? The study shows that, while republican court reform failed in some measures, it also succeeded in the following four areas...

... century there is no compelling evidence that mirs had any part in shaping the collectivist agrarian policies of the Soviet First Five-Year Plan. Since actual rural collectivization experience took place in both countries at about the same time, Mexico does not appear to have failed hopelessly. Finally...

.... As a result of mechanical limitations, the study tends to ignore potentially meaningful multivariate relationships; both text and appendices are frustrating because of the information they fail to provide. Tantalizing sections dealing with age distribution, sex, civil state, race, nationality, and occupation...

..., or a considerable number of the Latin American countries, are ripe for revolution. His book particularly fails to present any meaningful economic, political, or social analysis of Latin America. Debray’s analysis of the forces and events leading up to the Cuban Revolution is faulty. His account is a distortion...

... eventually to get the labor provision thrown out, the role of the missions had changed substantially. Lastly, García Jordán provides details on how the state failed to provide the Indians effective citizenship after the secularization of the missions in the 1930s and 1940s. Federica Barclay analyzes how...

... readable book with much good information on recent Salvadorean history. The book fails, however, for the same reason that liberal proposals to resolve the crisis are doomed to failure; reactionary despotism. Neither deals with the implications of its own evidence: that to effect meaningful change in El...

... Barroto and Antonio Romero sailed from Havana to chart the Gulf; in May, Marcos Delgado searched westward by land from Apalache; and in February, 1687, Alonso de León explored the lower Texas coast by land. These expeditions failed to locate La Salle, and French activity in the Gulf continued. An all...

... with their household that fails to translate into meaningful political power. In virtually every group discussed, they suffer from poor health (repeated pregnancies, malnutrition, lack of medical care), domestic violence, little to no education, and linguistic isolation. Moreover, Kellogg suggests that globalization...

... was convinced that the island's sugar industry and white population would be better off without it. But here again, when given an opportunity to execute original research with new archival sources that could have shed light on such important concepts, the author fails to do so, instead relying on just a few...

... of Dan Mitrione by the Tupamaros, Guillén observes, failed to accomplish a political objective, and indeed was a reversal for the Tupamaros in “their newly acquired role of assassins,” a role enthusiastically communicated to Uruguayans by their media. “In a revolutionary war, any guerrilla action...

... of treaty clauses, parenthetical comments, and usually introductory headings. While Hargreaves-Mawdsley describes his sources in a 21-page introduction, he fails to acknowledge the work of his predecessor either there or in his bibliography. It is interesting to compare these two publications for other...

... most Micho-acanos, his own political approach failed the very men and women he so hoped to help. This, though, has been suggested before, though certainly not as fully or clearly. What, then, is new here? And what remains unanswered? Like other thoughtful scholars, Boyer has turned to local-level...

... internal divisions. It did give way to an elected government after failing to consolidate its rule. However, the contention that the failure to institutionalize bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes, in Argentina and elsewhere, was rooted in the “problem of representation” might be usefully reframed, both...