...Mónica Quijada Although these criticisms do not negate the pathbreaking character of Foment’s proposal, his perspective would have been strengthened if more contrasting historiographical information had been taken into account. Perhaps this aspect will be addressed in the second volume...

... or of failing to act decisively once it had begun. 44 General Vergara harbored no such charitable feelings. Earlier he had promised that no one would be executed without a proper trial. If convicted, however, he would not hesitate to execute the guilty for fomenting a rebellion. The cabinet divided...

... (the other three). Both Edwards and Encina (the latter taking some of his key ideas from the former) were deeply concerned with the fomenting of a strongly developed organic national community. Góngora, in some of what proved, alas, to be his last writings, reflected on the incompatibility of true Chilean...

... he feels resulted in Chilean loss of the territory. He contends that Chilean officials viewed the occupation of the Straits and the maintenance of a colony there with no other objective than that of facilitating and fomenting navigation and international maritime trade. In following this policy, he...

... that towers above the sterile fury of stubborn adversaries” (p. 19). “I inexorably affirmed the position of our country” (p. 189). “Nor did I labor for the fulfillment of personal ambitions, I did not foment discord and conflict among the citizenry. I persecuted no one. I have never known personal hate” (p...

... relinquished plans to overthrow him, and clings to the policy of economic and political isolation despite evidence of Castro’s inability to foment revolution or the Soviet Union’s disinclination to exploit Cuba as a base for com-munizing the hemisphere. Most books about the Cuban-American relationship...

... and related tracts; “early works in Spanish written to foment revolution in Spanish America;” and what was published in Spanish during the independence period itself to acquaint Spanish Americans with basic Anglo-American political texts. As the author’s investigation was principally carried out in a limited...

... the full extent of obsessions verging on the irrational. In these circumstances the charge that the Jesuits had fomented the Motín de Esquilache provided at last the excuse necessary to deal with an order seen as a political faction bent on challenging the king himself. The publication of the Dictamen...

... that influenced their behavior. For example, he repeatedly accuses the rightist and leftist parties of obstructing the government and fomenting chaos for narrow partisan purposes, without considering that they and their followers may have truly believed, given the objective conditions of dependence and poverty...

..., as well as any appreciable biographical material or editorial comment. These omissions considerably reduce its value, for the reader must supply his own context of events. Moreover, the translation is uninspired—for example, consignas becomes “assignments” and fomento “fomentation.” These failings...

... of the forthcoming rebellion, as if these happenings, this sort of social environment, must cause revolution, when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Furthermore, for my taste, Meyers credits the Laguneros with a much-too-critical (even lofty) role in fomenting and nurturing the revolt. That distinction...

... within and between the republics of the Americas and the dominant role that US politics, culture, and economics continue to exercise over the other American nations. After all, the ultimate purpose of the journal's 100 volumes on the past is to foster a better understanding of the present and foment...

... to the reader’s sensibility is the author’s obstreperous anti-Semitism. In a section of the fourth volume entitled “Judaizando a México” President Calles is accused of fomenting an utterly fantastic Jewish-Communist plot to take over Mexico and perhaps even all of Latin America. The author concludes: “El pulpo...

... on Argentina. Certainly the book will foment controversy, both in Argentina and elsewhere. That alone means that the author has successfully completed at least one of his major goals. Argentina . By Ferns H. S. . New York , 1969 . Frederick A. Praeger . Nations of the Modern World...

... market, “neo-liberal” models became popular only in recent decades, but Calvo ignores a more significant phenomenon: the half-century-old conviction on the part of South American military leaders that the military must play some role in assuring security and fomenting economic development. Security...

... about the kind of growth we are fomenting. Here he is reminiscent of Albert Hirschman, at any rate to a non-planner and non-economist. Friedmann even hopes that planners who adopt his approach can transcend the issue of “growth v. welfare.” That would be quite a political achievement, since that issue...

... and Páez, but he was critical of their moderation in dealing with those who fomented insurrections. He considered exile, the usual punishment, too weak and noted that it was enforced with such laxness that soon the offenders were back again, plotting and endangering public order. He preferred capital...

... German; they fomented a discussion of Freudian ideas among a narrow circle of colleagues. As the circle widened, demand for translation increased; and only when a substantial group of people were reading Freud in their own language did demand for institutionalized psychoanalysis arise. All this takes...

... of that earlier disaster, Chileans had repudiated military dictatorship and laissez-faire dogma in the 1930s. Whether this second catastrophe will foment similar changes remains to be seen. Both as a research tool and as an economic analysis, therefore, this book is immensely welcome. It constitutes...

... la Ensenada. Peralta Ruiz also studies how and why the Junta Extraordinaria de Indias arrived at a conclusion favoring free trade, and the way secretaries fomented the writing of histories. The case of José Eusebio Llano Zapata allows Peralta Ruiz a counterpoint. He argues that despite great efforts...