...Anne Hanley Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . By Cribelli Teresa . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth , $99.99 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

... in the British and 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...

... how many fought, who these soldiers were, and the mechanisms by which the state recruited and disciplined them. My examination of wartime mobilization and desertion shows that the central government adopted a multipronged approach, ceding power to local actors to enact mobilization orders, negotiating...

... and the Portes Gil government to plot a way out of the religious crisis. It did so by providing a mutually acceptable means for priests to register with the postrevolutionary state and by providing a discursive mechanism for the Catholic clergy to present itself to the regime as a national, less Rome-oriented...

... mechanisms as nations grapple with past violence and how societies bring both culture and policy to bear in their own reckonings with the past. The book compellingly and artfully demonstrates this process by tracing four cycles of cultural memory, or four historical junctures in which the temporal...

...John Jay Tepaske This tightly focused, well-researched book analyzes credit mechanisms in Lower Peru for the colonial epoch, particularly for the last 70 years before independence. Before 1750, clerical institutions provided perpetual or redeemable loans ( censos) at interest rates hovering...

...; and Alzati, Mexicanizatión , pp. 98, 115-125. 100 Ibid. (Aug. 14, 1906). It cannot be determined from the Central’s annual reports if the mechanics’ wages were, in fact, raised. Turner, Barbarous Mexico , p. 176, reports that the mechanics were given a $.05 per day increase in salaries. 99...

... political participation at a given time? These classic historiographical questions are carefully analyzed by focusing on the emergence and mechanics of the welfare state in Mexico. This new study is a valuable effort to reinterpret the so-called Mexican miracle within a more ample, long-term framework, one...

... housing construction in the case of Pastrana, a more progressive tax levy in the case of López. Other contributions deal with the effects of long-term policies—in municipal government, education, the promotion of minor exports and tourism, agricultural price supports, and the subsidy of farm mechanization...

...John W. F. Dulles El minimato presidencial: Historia política del maximato (1928–1935) . By Medin Tzvi . Mexico City : Ediciones Era , 1982 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 176 . Paper . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The political mechanism whereby...

... among its members became more apparent. After examining the different mechanisms that facilitated the industry’s successful expansion and Tucumán’s specialization in sugar production, the author shifts the focus to the provincial economy. The industry’s dramatic growth ameliorated the effects...

... Studies and World Affairs entitled “Campesino Movements and Class Conflict in Latin America: The Functions of Exchange and Power.” As in that article, after the theoretical section on exchange theory, the author discusses the varied mechanisms of domination—economic, social, political, psychocultural...