...Thomas E. Skidmore Ein Institut und sein General: Wilhelm Faupel und das Ibero-Amerikanische Institut in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Edited by reinhard liehr, günther maihold, and günter vollmer. Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2003. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables...

...Teresa Cribelli Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil . By Summerhill William R. . Yale Series in Economic and Financial History . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2015 . Illustrations. Figures. Tables...

...James N. Green Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change . By Alston Lee J. , Melo Marcus André , Mueller Bernardo , and Pereira Carlos . The Princeton Economic History of the Western World . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016...

... multifaceted field, and disagreements among them in the past have often been as sharp and vitriolic as those since 1975. The earliest practitioners were also mindful of the prejudices of their readers and the interests of government officials and institutions who used their services or funded their...

...Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics . By Abers Rebecca Neaera and Keck Margaret E. . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . Illustrations. Table. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 263 pp...

...Tracy Beck Fenwick Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions . By Wampler Brian . Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Matthew Vitz Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests . By Mathews Andrew S. . Politics, Science, and the Environment . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 312 pp. Paper...

...Kathryn Burns Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Institutional and Cultural Practice of “Recogimiento” in Colonial Lima. By nancy e. van deusen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Map. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xviv, 319 pp. Cloth,$60.00. 2003 by Duke...

...Colin M. Lewis Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911. By edward beatty. Social Science History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes Bibliography. Index. xii, 296 pp. Cloth, $55.00. 2004 by Duke...

...Graciela Márquez Colín The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth. Edited by jeffrey l. bortz and stephen haber. Stanford: Stanford University Press,2002. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xvii, 348 pp. Cloth,$60.00. Paper...

...Marc Edelman Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World-Making in the Tropics . By consuelo cruz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Notes. Index. xvii, 281 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Duke University Press 2007 General Book Reviews...

...Francisco Rogido Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920 . By anne g. hanley. Social Science History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 286 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Duke University...

... Spanish empires. The institutions governing economic policy making at home were quite distinct in the two cases. After 1688 Britain relied heavily on Parliament for the formulation and approval of economic policies. The formal mechanisms by which the economic interests of different groups were articulated...

...Jeremy Adelman Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America . By m. c. mirow. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 343 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Duke University Press 2006 Book...

... organizing human labor and production—one exemplified by a Spanish economic institution and the other by an indigenous ceremony—and their role in rationalizing the “transcultural” intergrowth of the economies of the early Spanish colony and the surrounding native communities from which it extracted wealth...

...Steven Palmer The paper reassesses the model of scientific success on the periphery advanced in Nancy Leys Stepan's analysis of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Beginnings of Brazilian Science by looking at a comparable, though ultimately less successful, bacteriological research facility in Havana...

... disputes according to existing laws and customs but seldom actually tried to find out what those customs were. However, in cases where colonial elites were already interested in understanding specific indigenous institutions, litigation between rival Andean groups provided the context in which Spanish...