Search Results for guard

...Paul Hart The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution . By Harris Charles H. III and Sadler Louis R. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . Map. Figures. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 559 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2016...

...Larry Pippin Panamanian Politics: From Guarded Nation to National Guard . By Ropp Steve C. . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1982 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 151 . Cloth . $18.95 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984...

... of cultural theory, not only in the Colombian context but also in the global imaginary. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Painting, Literature, and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940–2005: Of Border Guards, Nomads, and Women . By Martin Deborah . Colección Támesis, Serie...

... and Social Theory 7 (1988), 1–54; and Peasant and Nation. See also essays by Guy P. C. Thomson: “Bulwarks of Patriotic Liberalism: The National Guard, Philharmonic Corps, and Patriotic Juntas in Mexico, 1847–88, ” Journal of Latin American Studies 22:1 (Feb. 1990), 31–68; “Movilización conservadora...

..., the analysis stresses political contingency over ideology to explain the allegiances of different leaders and groups in the Sierra. The area’s National Guard units played an important role in this continued political engagement mainly because they were made up of Nahua villagers who were recruited...

... direct military control, through projects such as the creation of a US-officered frontier guard. Established in 1905 to police revenue along the Dominican-Haitian border, this unique organization had neither precedent nor sanction in international law, but it demonstrated the makeshift Caribbean policy...

... network of the force, resisted demands of property owners for the distribution of posts of a few men, and proposed instead to concentrate Cuban troops. Fewer outposts, the army advisor reasoned, would necessitate a wider orbit of patrol, enabling the Rural Guard to acquire greater familiarity...

... politics, the importance of military service for the rank-and-file soldiers drawn from the rural poor has been overlooked. 1 During most of the nineteenth century Brazilian soldiers served either in the army or in the national guard. Most often studied as political institutions, these organizations...

... the revenue to devote to public security. While the federal government retained overall control of the Security Guard through an inspector general’s department in the Ministry of Gobernación, the states handled most of the daily supervision and administration. The national government paid the mobile...

... against the guards for theft and bribery into six separate categories. Some tangential details, however, must have been simply too good to leave out, such as the medical debate over the efficacy of administering cold-water enemas to revive jailed drunks. The book is organized largely thematically...

... society in nineteenth-century Brazil based on the imaginative use of selected pieces of evidence than the application of a rigorous analytical model to the study of a specific institution in a specific period. The author sees the National Guard as exemplary of, and as central to, “an inherent...

... Guard, led by local landowners. Since the National Guard was unpaid, its employment necessarily institutionalized the patrimonial concept of the administrative obligations inherent in social status. O Minotauro Imperial is important because it offers a fresh approach to the administrative history...

... Minister of Justice, created a National Guard, a “citizen’s militia” that would preserve national order. Although the guard did accomplish that mission with some success, it failed to replicate the democratic character of the French institution which had served as its model. The guard’s loss of popular...

... Press 1973 Domingo Ibarra Grijalva, one of the officers of the Nicaraguan National Guard who signed the death warrant of General Augusto C. Sandino, helped lower the body of the great guerrillero into a secret grave on the night of February 21, 1934. In this book Ibarra explains that he put his...

..., the national state attempted to establish a more centralized military system. The creation of the National Guard played an important part in this process. However, since the electoral law required registration in the National Guard as a condition to vote, the institution reinforced the close association...

... to consummate his own victory, Múgica and his supporters persuaded peasant home guards (defensas civiles ) from two hamlets near Morelia to oust his opponents from the capital. The Socialists spirited some additional men into the city in the guise of a brass band. The home guards combined forces to run...

... political development since 1968 when the National Guard denied Arnulfo Arias the presidency. General Omar Torrijos, in particular, has fostered the guard’s identification with the peasantry, and rural workers in turn have collaborated actively in the agrarian reform program. The enormous amount...