...Seth Garfield Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol . By Jennifer Eaglin . New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 268 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press...

...Edward Beatty Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 . By Germán Vergara . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 322 pp. Cloth, $99.99 . Copyright ©...

...Pedro Jimenez Cantisano Abstract This article considers the rights-based opposition that helped fuel Rio de Janeiro's 1904 Vaccine Revolt. I argue that the revolt was embedded in sociolegal conflicts about the policing of homes. In the early twentieth century, empowered by new laws, public health...

... into the amount of fuel the body-machine needed for optimal performance depending on the work performed and environmental conditions. The main objective of this article is to highlight the role that this energy-centric conception of the body played in configuring a series of educational and public hygiene...

.... Ayacuchanos' devastating experiences of cocaine repression fueled anger toward the police, which Shining Path militants capitalized on early in their armed struggle. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Cautionary tales abound in Ayacucho. There's the story of the little old Peruvian lady who...

... of the population, fluency in written communication and accounting skills became important means to accumulate wealth and power, allowing individuals with these skills to occupy central positions in long-distance trade and patronage networks. Differences in the nature of honor also fueled disdain and hatred...

...Rossana Barragán Abstract The silver produced by indigenous mine workers in Potosí, Bolivia, helped fuel early modern global trade. While historiography has analyzed the structure of the labor force, one important question has not been addressed: how workers themselves acted on and changed...

... examines capital-fueled growth from the vantage of working-class sectors, observing how a mobile, multiracial workforce transformed investment flows into railways and other infrastructure. Although laborers did not control transborder movements of capital, their earning of wages was not just about survival...

.... There is no evidence that canals were dug in the colonial period, and it may have been that mangroves were abundant enough that this was unnecessary. 23 Armando Magalhães Correa, O sertão carioca (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, 1933), 74. This refers to all fuel cut into small...

... of a larger story about the modernization of Brazilian agriculture and agribusiness. Rogers focuses on Proa´lcool, the government-sponsored program that, from 1975 to 1990, provided sugarcane planters with incentives to produce ethanol fuel, sparking a rapid, countrywide change away from gasoline. Four years...

...Frank Safford The discussion of technical details makes clear why steam-powered paddle-wheel boats competed with difficulty against diesel-powered propeller-driven craft. The combined weight of steam engines, fuel, water, and paddles was roughly six times that of diesel engines, fuel...

... that found itself overwhelmed by riots and disturbances in the countryside while negotiating and making alliances with the richest ranchers. Rath s discussion of the riots, fueled by rumors, mistrust, and longstanding con icts with postrevolutionary governments over land and education policies, is worth...

... of natural resources. Professor Solberg, in this well researched and well written monograph, argues that although President Roque Saenz Peña was the first Argentine leader to outline an effective petroleum policy it was the sharp impact of World War I on the River Plate region, with concomitant fuel...

... 1880 fueled the expansion of the country’s export economy and the improvement of its transportation systems; yet the railroads hauled raw materials to the border to fuel U.S. industrial expansion, while Mexican industry settled for supplying local markets. The thrust of Mexico’s economic policy...

... there. Charcoal from long-lived trees can date to hundreds of years earlier than when the tree was cut for fuel. To narrow dating, archaeologists often date short-lived plant parts or plant fibers in the pottery. Cautious archaeologists may want to wait for more precise assays to decide exactly how this important...

... successive finance ministers are fully recounted. Their tripling of the money supply, stimulation of stock market speculation, and attempts at otherwise purchasing the support of planters fueled the bubble and left the financial system in ruins. Moreover, these ministers — in particular the abolitionist Rui...

... for late nineteenth-century modernizers, and second, that its overall results were positive, setting the stage for future generations of industrial growth. Lacking capital and technologies, Mexican elites needed exports to fuel modernization, and those exports had a significant return value (measuring...

... for the children; it was increasingly staged by the children. Youths became the revolution's spokespersons and were recruited in work, military, and education campaigns. These endeavors fueled the opposition, who were prone to exaggerate the government's undeniably child-targeted programs by, for example...

... pesos by 1853) fueled inflation; the disbursed public debt bonds did not function as a “quasi-money.” The timing and degree of inflation shown here fully support that argument. 49 However, one should not discount excess demand as a distinct result of this redistribution, even if part of the spending...

... between the two liberators while at the same time adding fuel to the polemic which has long raged around the authenticity of the letter of August 29, 1822 from San Martín to Bolívar. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 La entrevista de Guayaquil . By Chaves Julio César...