...Robert Karl The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia . By Teo Ballvé . Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix...

...Hannah Greenwald Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina . By Lucas Savino . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2022 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 205 pp. Cloth, $100.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Lucas Savino's...

...Bianca Premo With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550 – 1700 . By Graubart Karen B. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 249 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...Paul Hart Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico . By Overmyer-Velázquez Mark . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 231 pp...

.... McGillivray’s book is, however, no narrowly regional take on Cuban history. Blazing Cane uses sugar and the history of Tuinicú and Chaparra to trace the evolution of the complex tributaries of state formation in Cuba during the last three decades of the Spanish colonial era and in the period labelled by Cuban...

... in disparate directions. Smith’s hefty tome seems to be designed less for classroom teaching than for specialists studying Mexico’s state-periphery relations and state formation. Oaxaca scholars will rejoice at reading the minutiae of the history of a state that at times has been a political nuisance...

... as other indigenous groups were decimated. However, thorny methodological questions regarding identity are elided, such as, for example, whether someone should be called “black” versus “mulatto,” or “mestizo” versus “Indian.” For the most part, a full exploration of ethnic and national identity formation...

...David Frye Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935 – 1985 . By Hartch Todd . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2006 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxi , 245 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright 2009...

...Robert J. Stewart No Bond But the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780 – 1870 . By Paton Diana . Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Illustrations. Map. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Seth Meisel Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853–1870) . By De La Fuente Ariel . Durham : Duke University Press , 2001 . Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 249 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper...

...Frank Safford Studies in the Formation of the Nation-State in Latin America . Edited by Dunkerley James . London : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London , 2002 . Tables . 298 pp. Paper . Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 This volume...

.... 2 , Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822–1889 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxx , 397 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 This important work operates on the borders where social, political...

...Hilda Sabato State Formation and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860–1916 . By Rock David . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2002 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 316 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 David Rock’s first...

...Patricia A. McAnany Maya Lords and Lordship: The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600 . By Quezada Sergio . Translated by Rugeley Terry . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography...

.... While many factors led to the formation of the Cuban Medical Federation, the most important was the increasingly precarious economic position of Cuban physicians by the third decade of the twentieth century. Within months of the 1925 founding of the FMC, members of its executive committee approached...

...Bridget María Chesterton Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609–1803: The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context . By Jackson Robert H. . European Expansion...

...John Gledhill Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán . By Purnell Jennie . Durham : Duke University Press , 1999 . Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 271 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright...

... local families (those of the port merchants and lowland planters which were often intermarrying by that time). 4 The able political analyses and narratives we have, while useful for many things, are inadequate to understand party formation. The latter requires a return to parliamentary annals...

...Paul Christopher Johnson The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil . By Luis Nicolau Parés . Translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author. Latin America in Translation / en Traducción / em Tradução . Chapel Hill : University of North...

... the formation of the elite’s perception of politics and the campaigns they undertook to spread their ideas, I am also interested in the common people’s reaction to the messages received. This approach facilitates an understanding of the specific terms in which a new political culture, with active participants...