...Coburn Graves Feudalism and Liberty: Articles and Addresses of Sidney Painter . Edited by Cazel Fred Jr. Baltimore , 1961 . Johns Hopkins Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 313 . $5.50 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Tangible evidence of the contribution...

... into the study of feudalism. Russo had said that while it may have been all very well to have eliminated juridical feudalism, that did not resolve the problem of economic feudalism, which still survived. The Neapolitan Republic of 1799—in spite of the presence of French armed forces—was extremely short-lived...

... by arguing that Mayas were not yet civilized enough for equality and freedom, Q'eqchi’ Maya patriarchs and their ladino allies argued for abolishing mandamientos by drawing upon the metanarrative charting the end of slavery and feudalism and the rise of capitalism. While scholars have illustrated...

... Committee, 208 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. * * * * A colloquium on Feudalism and Capitalism during the Historic Development of Latin America was held June 8-10, 1972 by the research group on Latin American history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig...

... in a predominately feudal or “pre-capitalist” stage. The author concludes: “In spite of rude shocks suffered throughout its four centuries of existence, the Brazilian latifundia system survives in our own time with sufficient powers to firmly maintain control over our agrarian economy.” The author enters...

..., the institution above all others that provided the framework for the initial settlement of Brazil. Certainly Carlos Malheiro Dias contributed little, back in 1924, by expounding at some length on the “feudal” nature of the grants made to the donataries. 1 That nothing in his description remotely conformed...

..., was incompletely feudalized because Christian settlers in newly reconquered regions secured considerable personal freedom. The new argument is that personal freedom quickly declined as the frontier receded and the settlers’ descendants slipped into dependent roles, thus giving many parts of Spain a feudal...

... Why are the countries of Latin America “underdeveloped?” The commonest answer today seems to be that their societies have failed to be completely modernized in some sense; they remain “traditional,” or “feudal.” This description suggests that the escape from poverty is a unilinear process in time...

... for its economic development involving New Mexico’s leading citizens and the story of Lucien Maxwell himself, who operated it much like a feudal baron. This atypical grant was made to Charles Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda in 1843 and came to be owned by Lucien Maxwell when he married Beaubien’s daughter...

.... From the forties to the present this bourgeoisie has engaged in active power politics to counter what Sodré refers to as the ever-present “imperialistic” influence of foreign investment, foreign diplomatic pressure, and local “feudal” interests. Although he feels that in the present era the bourgeoisie...

... of the rise and fall of serfdom were unique to this region. The former Frankish March was the only area in medieval Spain that witnessed the consolidation of a seigneurial regime based on formal enserfment of the peasantry. Yet Catalan feudalism was not manorial in character, as was the case in much...

... was a feudal society during the American occupation. The bourgeoisie had not made its appearance and consequently landowning patterns, relations between church and state, and production were still feudal in form. Anglo America on the other hand was a bourgeois society, and much of what the Anglo saw...

... careful consideration to social and economic factors—and preferably be written by a reactionary, bourgeois, capitalistic American historian. Thus, says Alperovich, the War of Independence freed Mexico from Spain, created a national state, and suppressed feudal institutions; but it did not involve...

... of feudalism, published as an annex to his own Spanish translation of F. L. Ganshofs classic Feudalism ( El feudalismo , Barcelona, 1963). Much of the secondary literature cited was written in the 1920s and 1930s, suggesting that the Spanish Civil War impeded a more contemporaneous synthesis...

... exporter of capital. More wealth has been drained out than total investment and aid have provided. Out of the residue of hoarded string, rusty nails and tin-cans, a creaky production system, backward and feudal, has been built on the foundations of a hundred million or so people who earn less than...

... Today.” While reacting against the traditional interpretations of Andean rural society as characterized by survivals of pre-Spanish and “feudal” colonial societies, Golte sympathizes with the opposite view of the contemporary Indian situation as having resulted from the historical process...

... politics aside, which originally led the U.S. into the backward and feudal society of South Vietnam in the early 1960s. Reflecting the characteristic mix of altruism and practical realism which underlay much of American thinking toward the third world and its problems during this period, Allan R. Holmberg...

... Convención, Peru, he argues that “serfdom” in this area was not so much “the child of feudal tradition as the response by powerful landlords to an economic condition.” This would refer to increasing external demand for the products of the district, where labor, free, forced or enslaved, was scarce...

... points out that this has been a costly experiment, in view of the few people who have migrated; but that the national political structure has changed so much that a return to the old prerevolutionary feudalism will never be possible. He feels, however, that the revolution has not been the basic type...