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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 487.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Joel Horowitz Argentina: Political Culture and Instability . By Calvert Susan and Calvert Peter . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 1989 . Introduction. Photographs. Notes. Index . Pp. xiv , 327 . Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 523–526.
Published: 01 August 1993
... political instability of this period. When the tin miners withdrew their support, the state weakened and became vulnerable to pressures from the workers and urban sectors. In the context of the 1930s, the Bolivian state was unable to generate basic political support from another, noneconomically dominant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 1993
...John Jay Tepaske Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico . By Stevens Donald F. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1991 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 184 pp. Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 358.
Published: 01 May 1978
... University Press 1978 The Panama Canal: Isthmian Political Instability from 1821 to 1976 . By Ancuizola Gustave . Introduction by Flood Daniel J. and Tune Thomas W. . Arlington , 1977 . University Press of America . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 72 . Paper. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 August 2010
... concept is a key to a better understanding of the history of Spanish America during the years that followed the crisis of the monarchy—a long period of instability judged traditionally as an age of anarchy and void of any political norms. On the contrary, the new sovereign, though fragile, governments...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2015
... three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been central in Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the present; this piece offers a long-term...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 173–209.
Published: 01 May 2008
... for a legitimate replacement ruler consumed the following century in postcolonial Spanish America. A comparable pattern of constitutional failure, political instability, and poor economic performance was replicated in Spain throughout the nineteenth century. The data for the analysis of the treasury districts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 296–297.
Published: 01 May 1969
... (institutions) and their respective functions and dysfunctions. The introductory and concluding chapters, written by the editors, establish this book’s central focus on political instability and stability. Symptoms of instability are related to three considerations: entrepreneurial deficiencies, a lack of role...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 625–626.
Published: 01 August 1988
... as distributed along two intersecting axes, one reflecting the mix of poverty and communism as causal factors in instability, and the other reflecting the degree to which instability threatens U.S. security. Those who fall at the extremes of both continua must then compete to sway the so-called moderates...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 366–367.
Published: 01 May 1994
... instability. It traces 30 stormy years in Bolivia, from the major social revolution of 1952 through a succession of civil, military, and mixed governments to 1982; under 25 presidents, including both constitutionally elected repeaters and heads of shortlived coups. In the process, it vividly illustrates...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 528–529.
Published: 01 August 1973
... instability, which eventually paved the way for the coming of Getúlio Vargas. The book, first written in 1960 but published in 1972, is divided into three parts: a long, detailed chronology from 1870 to 1922; ten chapters or sections, covering from the advent of the republic to the eve of the presidency...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 February 2003
... character Castaño, is highly resonant of the instability of the wife’s body as signifier in the early modern Hispanic world. The first chapter presents Black’s argument that there was an uneasy relationship between the categories “woman” and “wife,” and that anxieties regarding the wife’s body...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 683–684.
Published: 01 November 2015
... a typical form of instability, the exemplary text attempts to reconcile this contradiction or heterogeneity by striving for “a cohesive ideal or lesson” (p. xii). In its ambiguity, the exemplary mode in these novels serves as the stage for the performance of Spanish American creole subjectivity in all its...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (2): 285–295.
Published: 01 May 1973
... increased along with the frequency of recessions. In other words, the rise of political instability appears to be associated historically with the rise of economic instability in the Argentine case. That Argentina has become more unstable politically as it has developed economically appears to contradict...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 February 1968
... This is a fascinating little book. It attempts to explain the “Argentine paradox”—growing democracy accompanied by political instability—through sociological research techniques, study of collected data including direct questionnaires, and extensive tabulations of the results. The book was produced under the aegis...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 454–455.
Published: 01 August 1992
..., the autonomous developmental model, because he fails to examine Paraguay’s internal economy and society. Whigham’s conclusion is thus beyond the scope of his research and places him in the dependency school. The author also argues but fails to prove that political instability rather than market forces...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 207–208.
Published: 01 May 2009
... was transferred peacefully to the Liberal opposition. What accounts for this development, which is even more remarkable in light of Colombia’s perennial instability during the nineteenth century? Although Colombia is always thought of as a place of endemic political violence and instability, this was not the case...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 386–387.
Published: 01 May 2009
... political instability and economic weakness that plagued the Mexican republic during the quarter century after it won independence from Spain. Henderson demonstrates clearly why republicanism failed to produce in Mexico the dynamic economic system of its northern neighbor. With respect to Mexico’s relations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 342–343.
Published: 01 May 1981
.... On politics: Political instability, a legacy of the Spanish-Indian heritage, is the curse of Latin America. Politicians and bureaucrats view government as a source of wealth rather than as an opportunity for public service. Democracy is rendered impossible by lack of trust among parties and among citizens...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 664–666.
Published: 01 November 1972
..., the second independent state in the Caribbean. Dr. Hoetink quite properly subordinates the narrative of political instability to a number of fundamental changes: in the agrarian and demographic structure, in the communications network, in the distribution of economic power, in the administration of justice...
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