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... pursued these unequal legal contests. 10 This also helps explain why masters responded with such anger to what they took to be the aggressive language and rebelliousness of their servants. The words and tone of slave testimonies led both masters and judges to complain of “a lack of legitimate...

...Paul D. Lack This work will be of interest to scholars exploring topics beyond Mexican and Texas politics. The environmental descriptions are long and insightful because Terán and his companions had been selected based on their broad range of scientific expertise. Terán was interested as well...

... imposed on women a duty to defend country, race, and gender—increasingly in the public sphere—the lack of suffrage constrained women's political participation. At least two Sonoran women, María de Jesús Váldez and Emélida Carrillo, imagined the vote for women, a vision in which women's suffrage depended...

... of neighborhood health movements, the article explores how grassroots movements came to articulate a notion of a right to health that incorporated the right to shape the city and the right to democratic participation while under military rule. As frustration with a lack of sanitary infrastructure and poor-quality...

... hostility to the scheme and its lack of concern for the plight of the colonists offer new evidence suggesting that the War of the Triple Alliance was of little interest to British imperialism in general and to settler colonialism in particular. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke...

... for the state's lack of control over the frontiers. Beginning with its March to the West program, the government used aviation to quickly explore and colonize vast territories previously out of its reach. The military radically transformed this method in the 1960s, using napalm and paratroopers to quickly create...

... history as a banana enclave, areas supposedly characterized by a lack of significant economic and political connections with the nation-states that housed them. However, this article demonstrates that by the nineteenth century's end, Talamanca's indigenous residents were actively participating in one...

... these intraregional transfers of revenues. The crown barely controlled the system; yet it acted as the ultimate arbiter of a very flexible arrangement that effected the distribution of the fiscal burden across colonial regions and economic sectors. This setup explains the lack of serious challenges from within during...

... problematizes these claims. It demonstrates that far from an established science, archaeology was marked by a lack of technique and consensus about the meaning and display of artifacts. In addition, the official Indian past proved exclusionary in several ways. It celebrated certain ancient cultures and ignored...

...Josef Opatrný The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836 . By Lack Paul D. . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 1992 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Index . xxv , 332 pp. Cloth . $39.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...

... provinces, practically all of the outstanding Liberals remained faithful to the Government, and despite repeated defections in the ranks of the army, the Constitutional troops outnumbered the revolutionaries. But lack of leadership on the part of the President, lack of cooperation between the commanders...

..., while other troubles either persisted or were aggravated. By the time that the army left Barbados to sail to Jamaica, for example, food supplies barely enough for four people were feeding ten, and those hungry men lacked almost everything else, from arms to discipline. The worst was still to come once...

... of elite, kin-linked families and assorted religious representatives receive commensurate billing. He asserts that viewing Popayán’s politics as an imperial-creole dialectic lacks much analytical utility because governors as well as cabildo members perceived office as property rather than responsibility...

... to the evolution of a new colonial Spanish American literary consciousness (as shown by Ercilla). All in all, the book is an interesting effort but ultimately, for the historian, sterile. The book is very well documented, but it lacks a formal bibliography. Jerry Williams and Robert Lewis, editors, provide...

... characteristics. Latter-day writers noted that Benito Juárez’s reforms approximated those of Alexander II, and that each country experienced a major upheaval in the second decade of the twentieth century. According to Richardson, the early Russian writers often lacked perspicacity and knowledge of Mexico...

... to the short-term outcomes in 1971, Bitar concludes that the government lacked the ability to quickly collect and analyze the information necessary for adjusting economic policy to performance, and that it also lacked the administrative capacity to implement new policy measures. Among other problems...

... States diplomatic history than to have others seriously consider his primary thrust, his effort is worthwhile. His argument, however, is not original. The lack of originality is not the author’s principal weakness. The most glaring drawback is the lack of thorough research. His book is really a study...

... Latin American history class. Consequently the book goes from 1498 to 1929 and therefore lacks the earlier and later data quite important to Latin American history. This chronological spotlight description is interesting and useful for those who already know some Latin American history...

... to interpret their cultural and historical significance; but what is lacking is a thorough discussion of why particular foods and practices developed in some areas and not in others. Little effort is made at systematic comparisons of the different cuisines, and at times it is difficult to understand why some...