... Fair Gods and Stone Faces . By Irwin Constance . New York , 1963 . St. Martin’s Press . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 346 . $7.50 . ...

...Stanley R. Ross Anthology MCC 1956. Studies, essays and poems by faculty members of Mexico City College, presented as a contribution to the Seventh Mexican Book Fair . Foreword by Murray Paul V. . Mexico City , 1956 . Mexico City College Press . Pp. 445 . Paper . Copyright 1957...

...David G. Lafrance Mexico at the World’s Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation . By Tenorio-Trillo Mauricio . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 373 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press...

... 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...

... except during fair time, when the place came alive. But after 1637, fairs occurred only every 5.7 years and then were limited to merely 15 to 40 days to avert the lurking curse of yellow fever. The small military garrison, supported by situados from Peru, and smugglers were usually the only steady...

... water) that were controlled by the railroad” (pp. xix – xx). According to the author, Mexican railroad policy toward the poor was “fair” because the lower classes left officials and owners “little choice.” To avoid squatting and sabotage by locals should their concerns be ignored, railroad developers...

... particularized these broad changes in liberalism in Brazil after mid-century by examining the intellectual career of Aureliano Candido Tavares Bastos (1839-1875), who as a member of parliament favored free trade, laissez-faire, gradual emancipation of slavery, immigration, federalism and a weakening...

... set out to find what “the headlines, the reports, the analyses have not told us.” He has succeeded only in part. With an unquestioned sympathy for the efforts of the Cuban people to achieve long overdue reforms, and with a command of Spanish and a fair knowledge of Cuba gleaned on previous visits...

... resources in general, for the use of all property for the public good, and which made provision for the expropriation of large estates. The title of this volume bids fair to become a source of embarrassment to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee which sponsored it, to say nothing of the contents of the work...

... 1973 This book may appear to be a history of the “British” West Indies. Prospective readers are hereby warned that it is in fact nothing of the sort and, in all fairness, hardly makes such a pretense. After a sketchy and inaccurate chapter on the pre-settlement activities of the English...

... president. Joe F. Wilson’s monograph is concerned mainly with the commission’s work between August 1925 and July 1927. It dwells particularly on the problems encountered in ensuring fairness in a plebiscite held in territory that Chile policed and was as determined to retain as Peru was to regain...

... of religious organization. Sallnow describes the process of religious colonization that ultimately led to the formation of the “miraculous landscape” of the department of Cuzco, with its system of shrines in town, village, and countryside and with its concomitant system of markets and fairs. Of most...

... classes who see state formation as tied to foreign capital within a regime of laissez-faire? The book offers no conclusions, and we are left confused by what seem to be contradictory explanations of nineteenth-century literary culture. The author’s initial theoretical perspective is dependency...

.... The trade fairs in Jalapa (halfway between Veracruz and Mexico City) and Portobelo (in the Isthmus of Panama, the first stop on the long route to Peru) had been dismal failures, and it was the merchants of Cádiz, the gaditanos , who had sustained the greatest losses. 7 Foreign contraband had had...

... on land and to reach ships that, in turn, had to depart the Caribbean by June, before the onset of hurricane season. 40 The exchange of indigo took place at annual trade fairs, the most important of which was that of Santiago and later Guatemala City. The capital city fair was held in February...

... to be fair and his sensitivity to the Catholic vote went far to insure that church-state problems would be solved. But in spite of all difficulties, including the alarms of both Catholic and Protestant activists, most of these matters were well on the way to solution by 1904. Reuter’s study indicates...

... in the 1880s, and Venezuela after 1900. The last named is a useful addition to the literature on the Venezuelan Crisis of 1902. “Fair and equal treatment, not favoured treatment, was what British diplomacy aimed to achieve for British trade in Latin America” (p. 316). Platt concedes that the blockades...

... others, to focus on the militant church of the sixteenth century and post-Vatican II and leave the rest of church history to its detractors. Jeffrey Klaiber, a North American Jesuit who teaches in Peru and is well known for his earlier work on the church, is consequently one of the few fair-minded...

... scientists studying Puerto Rican culture and national identity. Chapter 5 reviews the rebarbatively ubiquitous presence of U.S. corporations in contemporary Puerto Rican cultural fairs and festivals. The astute observer will note that the presence of these corporate giants underscores Puerto Rico’s...