...Maynard Geiger, O.F.M. Our Catholic Heritage in Texas 1519-1936. The Mission Era: The Finding of Texas 1519-1693 , Vol. I and The Mission Era: The Winning of Texas 1693-1731 , Vol. II . By Castañeda Carlos E. . Edited by Foik Paul J. C.S.C. ( Austin : Von Boeckmann-Jones Co...

..., and to a considerable extent succeeds, in giving us a history of human rights efforts to find and demand jus tice for the children disappeared during the war, including prominently the work of La Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos. That group’s careful work in documenting the fates of children...

...Jorge E. Delgadillo Núñez Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution . By Theodore W. Cohen Afro-Latin America . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $120.00 . Copyright ©...

... Latin American Studies, Methods and Findings: Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Supplement 6 . Edited by Wilkie James W. and Ruddle Kenneth . Los Angeles , 1977 . UCLA Latin American Center Publications . Tables. Graphs. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xiv , 91 . Paper...

... by female and male Chilean fruit workers in their oral histories of labor, consumption practices, and familial power relations during the Pinochet regime and its preceding era of agrarian reforms. Moving to the United States, Tinsman finds that advertising campaigns, whether corporate- or grassroots-driven...

... the common treatment of racial identification as a fixed and self-evident determinant of social status or behavior, we treat it as a flexible social outcome. We find that though white identification is largely shaped by skin color, it is also shaped by national context, social status, and age. We discover...

... European scientific patronage networks initially seemed poised to work. As promises of Colombian platinum piqued British moneylenders' interest, French mapmakers etched the naturalists' early findings onto copperplates. But both the expedition and the Colombian republic emerged amid the transatlantic...

... ideas and practices and larger social forces. After an overview of Stepan’s approach and findings, the essay discusses two major trends in the literature that emerge from and build on Stepan’s work: the incorporation of sexuality along with race, gender, and class in studies of science and medicine...

... of eighteenth-century empires. Nonetheless, numerous facets of the essay run counter to the findings of many historians who have laboriously reconstructed the Bourbon tax system in Spanish America. A reading of the historical literature produced over the last two decades suggests that while political...

... by bargaining, not directives from the crown; and the differences between Spanish and British imperial fiscal systems have been overstated. Their first and second points are a welcome corrective to oversimplified treatments of early modern Spanish fiscal politics, and echo findings on absolutism in France...

... discursive figure emerges again, this time in the authorized voices of those concerned with criminal activities on the island. In this context, we find her embodying the prototype of the criminal woman: degenerate, ugly, black, and sexually insatiable. It is Luisa’s abject condition that places her...

... of rural schooling before 1921. I find that the municipal personal taxes that funded education during the Porfiriato were raised continually in spite of the fact that they burdened the poor disproportionately. Acquiescence to taxation administered by local authorities was further demonstrated when personal...

... and the establishment of a republican government prompted Venezuelans to lose confidence in the courts and virtually stop using them? The investigation finds that republican Venezuelans used the courts as much as or more than their colonial counterparts; the number of court cases dropped during periods of intense...

... disputes according to existing laws and customs but seldom actually tried to find out what those customs were. However, in cases where colonial elites were already interested in understanding specific indigenous institutions, litigation between rival Andean groups provided the context in which Spanish...

...Herbert S. Klein Abstract This essay surveys both the traditional findings and new debates that have used the Spanish imperial royal financial accounts to analyze the colonial economy and government. The crisis of the seventeenth century, the relations between colonial elites and royal government...

... and symbolically, thereby reproducing the multigenerational patterns of patronage and hierarchy that were constitutive of Chilean society. Finally, while domestic work is often associated with private spaces, the analysis finds that public beneficence institutions played an active role in training, subsidizing...

... partnership contracts demonstrates that women comprised a significant and dynamic sector of the merchant community, despite legal and social barriers. More importantly, their business habits largely paralleled those of their male counterparts. These findings break from current scholarship that narrowly...