... of the meetings was to revitalize a church-military (“cross and sword,” as Serbin puts it) dialogue damaged by military repression and growing social and political activism on the part of the Catholic Church. Three broad themes addressed by the Commission were economic development and social justice, the growing...

.... Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 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...

...Leigh Binford Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America: A Janus-Faced Paradigm? Edited by Schneider Nina and Esparza Marcia . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2015 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 186 pp. Cloth , $80.00 . Copyright ©...

...Julie A. Fisher Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America . Edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross New York : New York University Press , 2018 . Map. Table. Notes. Index. vi , 330 pp. Paper, $30.00...

...Ralph della Cava Latin American Church Growth . By Read William R. . Grand Rapids , 1969 . William B . Eerdmans Publishing Company. Church Growth Series . Charts. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiv , 421 . $8.95 . Social Justice and the Latin Churches. Church...

... empire, the historical record suggests otherwise. Beneficio allowed social newcomers to buy their way into the judiciary. Traditional elites thought that these newcomers were innately corrupt and that making them judges violated distributive justice, or the fair awarding of entitlements by traditional...

...Alcira Dueñas Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain . By van Deusen Nancy E. . Narrating Native Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Maps. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 336 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright ©...

...Mark A. Burkholder “By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age . By Owens J. B. . Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe, no. 3 . Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press , 2005 . Maps. Notes. Glossary...

...Charles H. Blake Political (In)justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina . By Pereira Anthony W. . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2005 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... on the transformations of the legal apparatus and the “architecture of the system” during the middle period. However, because of his use of a theoretical framework that emphasizes the mechanisms of social control, the author neglects other important aspects of crime and of the administration of justice. For example...

...Andrew B. Fisher Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico . By Owensby Brian P. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 379 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009...

...Erin E. O’Connor Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes . By Cervone Emma . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 332 pp. Paper , $25.95...

... in detail the origins of the long-standing impunity of military and police authorities for human rights violations. She then documents the efforts by the U.S. to reform the criminal justice system in the 1980s and early 1990s, efforts that accomplished little in terms of changed practices, but which built...

...Charles F. Walker Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru . By Anne Lambright . Liverpool Latin American Studies . Liverpool, UK : Liverpool University Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 212 pp. Cloth...

...Wil G. Pansters A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico . By Pablo Piccato . Violence in Latin American History . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. xi, 374 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright ©...

...James P. Brennan Labor Justice across the Americas . Edited by Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio . The Working Class in American History . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2018 . Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. vii, 281 pp. Paper , $35.00 . Copyright © 2019...

...Adrian Masters Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court . By José Carlos de la Puente Luna . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 345 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...

... Justice . By Brett Edward T. . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame , 2003 . Notes. Index. iii, 265 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $22.00 . ...

...Linda A. Newson Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650–1750) . By Herzog Tamar . History, Languages, and Culture of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2004 . Figures. Notes. Glossary. Index . x , 307 pp...