...Jeremy Baskes Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial . Edited by Vilar Enriqueta Vila and Kuethe Allan J. . Seville : Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla , 1999 . Tables. Appendixes. Index. xv, 304 pp . Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

... revising conventional wisdom. Allan Kuethe demonstrates the strong linkage between military and commercial reforms and the growth of the military establishment in Cuba in connection with the obtaining of trading privileges by the elite. He shows also that an increased military force meant new financial...

... that impart unity to them. To my knowledge, Kuethe’s article is the beginning of the first scholarly inquiry into the Bourbon military reorganization in Cuba. The subject has a special relevance for colonial military reforms in general for, as in the case of other late Bourbon innovations, the island...

... of colonial authorities toward mestizos, who constituted the majority of military forces in the Andean region, was such that that after 1784 militia forces were drawn only from the coastal region. Allan J. Kuethe’s three contributions trace the general outline of Bourbon mili tary policy in the Americas...

... after the accession of Charles III to the throne, lately, substantial studies dedicated to this earlier period have been produced. In this line of work, Kuethe and Andrien clearly demonstrate that the often-repeated idea that the reforms undertaken by Philip V and Ferdinand VI were inadequate, unplanned...

... it served to subjugate hostile Indian tribes. Allan J. Kuethe’s book argues persuasively that the conclusions reached earlier by his mentor Lyle N. McAlister regarding Bourbon military reform in New Spain are only partially applicable to New Granada. While the disciplined militias and regular army units...

... of their ports to unrestricted world trade in 1818. One wonders if similar magnanimity toward, for example, New Spain might have been capable of preserving mainland territories, too, as part of Spain’s American empire until the end of the nineteenth century. This is a fine book, which consolidates Kuethe’s...

...Allan J. Kuethe The late Aileen Moore Topping did a marvelous job of translation and contributed many learned notes. Morales’s introduction provides important information about Saavedra and the court, not the least of which involves his close personal ties with the powerful Gálvez family...

...Allan J. Kuethe La defensa de las Indias (1764-1799) . By Albi Julio . Madrid : Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana , 1987 . Notes. Photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography . Pp. 253 . Paper. Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Julio Albi is licenciado in law...

...Allan J. Kuethe; Lowell Blaisdell Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Scholars over the years have focused considerable attention on the issue of French influence on reformist policy during the Bourbon century and in particular on the reign of Charles III. This emphasis...

...Allan J. Kuethe Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Juan Marchena Fernández died unexpectedly at his home in Seville on October 10, 2022. He was survived by his wife, Nayibe Gutiérrez Montoya, and two children. At the time of his death, he was one of the leading authorities...

...Allan J. Kuethe Just as rapidly as the Gálvezes ascended in Madrid, they disappeared from the scene, owing to the absence of male descendants. José placed his hopes on Bernardo, who succeeded Matías as viceroy, but he died soon after. Hernández González traces the demise of the clan on through...

...Allan J. Kuethe Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift . By Chávez Thomas E. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2004 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 286 pp. Paper , $22.95 . Copyright...

...Allan J. Kuethe Historia general de Panamá , 3 vols. in 5 tomes. Edited by Calvo Alfredo Castillero . Panama City : Comité Nacional del Centenario , 2004 . Plates. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies . Vol. 1 , parts 1 and 2 , 513 and 543 pp. Vol. 2 , 415...

...Allan J. Kuethe The virtues of this study include the immense body of documentation consulted, the carefully reasoned exposition, and the perceptive understanding of events on both sides of the water that shaped Cuba’s destiny. It builds upon published works by Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Juan...

...Allan J. Kuethe Sevilla y las flotas de Indias: La gran armada de Castilla de Oro (1513–1514 ) . By García María Del Carmen Mena . Seville : Universidad de Sevilla; Fundación El Monte , 1998 . Plates. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 458 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2001...

...Allan J. Kuethe Ensayo político sobre la Isla de Cuba: Alejandro de Humboldt . Introduced and edited by Puig-Samper Miguel Angel , Orovio Consuelo Naranjo , and González Armando García . Aranjuez and Valladolid : Ediciones Doce Calles and the Junta de Castilla y Leon , 1998...

...Allan J. Kuethe Pablo de Olavide: El espacio de la ilustración y la reforma universitaria . By Fernández Juan Marchena . Seville : Junta de Andalucía , 2000 . Plates. Appendixes. Bibliography . 231 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Pablo de Olavide...

...Allan J. Kuethe Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Lyle N. McAlister died on March 1, 2002, in Lakewood, Colorado, at the age of 86. His beloved wife, Geraldine, preceded him in death. A leader of the generation that shaped the field of Latin American history following the Second...

...Allan J. Kuethe The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba . By Johnson Sherry . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2001 . Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 267 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press...