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...Carmelo Mesa-Lago This book ratifies the idea that serious and detached research is more successful, both in evaluation of the present and in forecasting, than uncritical work done in the past by sympathetic scholars who—in the same way as Castro—have been forced, albeit reluctantly, to embrace...

...Carmelo Mesa-Lago The Economic Development of Revolutionary Cuba: Strategy and Performance . By Ritter Archibald R. M. . New York , 1974 . Praeger Publishers . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. xvi , 372 . Cloth. $21.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975...

...Jorge I. Dominguez Mesa-Lago has, once again, enriched our understanding of the Cuban revolutionary process. He integrates bits of evidence to shed new light on new issues. He shows that it is possible to perform effectively the intellectual role of criticism of the Cuban revolution...

...Thomas M. Leonard Aspectos económico-financieros de la seguridad social en América Latina y el Caribe: tendencias, problemas, y alternativas para el año 2000 . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo . Santiago : CIEDESS , 1933 . Tables. Bibliography. 151 pp. Paper . Changing Social Security...

...Olivia Harris Autonomy and Power: The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia . By Lagos María L. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1994 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 206 pp. Cloth , $38.95 . Paper , $14.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke...

...Peter Gregory The Economy of Socialist Cuba: A Two-Decade Appraisal . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo . Foreword by Hochman Harold M. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1981 . Graph. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Index . Pp. xvi , 235 . Cloth. $17.50 . Paper. $9.95...

...Antonio Rafael De La Cova Cuba’s Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo and Pérez-López Jorge . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2005 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 223 pp...

...Victor M. Valenzuela Patagonia. Tierra de bendición . By Lagos Julio Alberto . Buenos Aires , 1967 . Emecé Editores . Maps. Notes . Pp. 280 . Paper. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 This book is the result of many years of research and personal observations...

...Archibald Ritter Cuba in the 1970s: Pragmatism and Industrialization . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo . Rev. ed. Albuquerque , 1978 . University of New Mexico Press . Tables. Notes. Index . Pp. xv , 187 . Cloth. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 This is an updated...

...David H. Zook, Jr. Las fronteras de Chile . By Carmona Guillermo Lagos . Santiago , 1966 . Empresa Editora Zig-Zag . Maps. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 256 . Paper. $3.50 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Lagos Carmona is a Chilean career diplomat who in recent...

...Peter Ranis Breve historia económica de la Cuba socialista: políticas, resultados y perspectivas . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo . Translated by Halfter Eva Rodríguez . Madrid : Alianza Editorial , 1994 . Tables. Bibliography. 246 pp. Paper . Copyright 1996 by Duke University...

... and even Marxist positions. Rodríguez’s diatribe focuses on Carmelo Mesa-Lago, who is accused of not using all the available sources or reliable data, inadequately applying the theory of dependency to Cuban-Soviet relations, and being predisposed not to evaluate the relationships between social...

... imagination over time” (p. 2). Throughout the following 200 pages Otero does not disappoint us. She takes us from Lagos to Havana and from Havana to Lagos discovering memories, some real, some possibly imagined, which she thoroughly examines time and again in the search for logical answers. Albeit...

...Robert J. Alexander The Labor Sector and Socialist Distribution in Cuba . By Misa-Lago Carmelo . New York , 1968 . Frederick A. Praeger for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace . Praeger Special Studies in International Economies and Development . Tables. Figures...

... at Lago Agrio in the Ecuadorean Amazon Region (RAE). There we spent three days in what Maximilian Fritz Feichtner describes as “a little world apart,” where “a guarded fence separated the several hectares of lush gardens, the cinder-block dormitories, and paved roads both from the dusty shantytown of Lago...

... similarly intricate and unique historical constructions of ranked identities that are much more revealing than the sociological abstractions naturalized as creole , whether lamented as implacably divisive or celebrated as euphoric creations of national genius. Kristin Mann, a historian of Lagos...

... of the dissolved provincial legislature, but such divergent military figures as Colonels Emilio Conesa, Manuel Hornos, Hilario Lagos and Pedro Rosas y Belgrano. The British chargé continued to send pessimistic reports to the Foreign Office concerning the deteriorating political situation in Buenos Aires...

..., and most notably, Donna Guy. The book covers two major themes: the nature and characteristics of the labor force of the ingenios and the evolution of national policies toward the sugar sector. Accordingly, Marcelo Lagos studies the functioning of the labor market in Jujuy’s sugar industry between...

... in the 1830s. Lagos was perceived as a secure place for freed slaves, as well as providing an opportunity for some former Afro-Brazilians to become prosperous slave traders (p. 109). Cunha’s discussion of the “reinvention” of Braziliana in midnineteenth-century Lagos is excellent. The taste for Brazilian...