... but Irving were New Englanders, and all flourished during the middle decades of the century. Irving, Prescott, and Ticknor produced the greatest volume of writings on the Hispanic world. Irving, already famous for his tales of New York, wrote romanti- cized works such as The Alhambra (1832) as...

...Stefan Rinke The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History . Edited by A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein. Afterword by Sinha Mrinalini . Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review Book Series . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Illustrations...

...Isabella Cosse In this article I reconstruct the history of Mafalda , the famous comic strip by the Argentine cartoonist Quino that was read, discussed, and viewed as an emblematic representation of Argentina’s middle class. With the aim of contributing to discussions on the interpretation of the...

...Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Immigrant Positioning in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Middle Easterners, Foreign Citizens, and Multiculturalism Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp In October 2002, Carlos Slim Helú, the richest man in Latin America and a Mexican citizen...

...Michael A. Ervin Duke University Press 2007 The 1930 Agrarian Census in Mexico: Agronomists, Middle Politics, and the Negotiation of Data Collection Michael A. Ervin Our people . . . make up an environment that is hostile to research. And being by experience untrusting, by...

...Eduardo Elena The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies . By Carassai Sebastián . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 357 pp. Paper , $25.95 . Copyright...

...Sarah E. Vaughn Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class . By Freeman Carla . Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figure. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii...

...David S. Parker Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class. By patrick barr-melej. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $19.95. 2002 by Duke...

...John D. French Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil. By brian philip owensby. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 332 pp. Cloth,$45.00. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.1-07 Books v2 3/23/01 6...

...Brian Owensby Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. By maureen o'dougherty. Durham: Duke University Press,2002. Photographs. Map. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 262 pp. Cloth,$59.95. Paper, $19.95. 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Book...

...Bryan McCann 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Carlos Lacerda: The Rise and Fall of a Middle-Class Populist in 1950s Brazil Bryan McCann Power, above all, is a marvelous source of happiness. —Carlos Lacerda1 President Getúlio Vargas’s suicide on August 24, 1954, has long...

...Greg O'brien Paths to a Middle Ground: The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791–1795. By CHARLES A. WEEKS. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $45.00...

... in the 1840s and 1850s as masked balls and parading by elite carnival societies came to dominate middle- and upper-class forms of celebration, although entrudo persisted longer among the lower classes. Based on travelers' accounts and the extensive newspaper debates about entrudo and its repression...

... Bordoy—and countless other domestic pairs—were (and continue to be) more maternalistic in nature. Her research suggests that middle-class or elite women, as opposed to their male partners, have often taken the lead in negotiating the affective terms of these relationships as well as the work to be done...

.... These questions deal with issues of modernization and stability, the rise of a politi- cally relevant middle class, the impact of electoral regimes on conflict and sta- bility, and divisions of power between executive and legislative branches of government. Ezequiel Adamovsky’s study of the...

... 2007 Contributors michael ervin teaches history and directs the Latino and Latin American Studies program at Central Washington University. He is currently completing The Art of the Possible: Agronomists and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, a social, political, and...

... thinking about students—especially given its astute attention to how student nationalism changed—and about the making of the middle class, both in Guatemala and elsewhere. This City Belongs to You follows generations of USAC students as they developed identities and commitments. It spans the decades...

... Comparative Immigration Studies, both at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently finishing her book manuscript entitled So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: From Middle Eastern Immigrants to Foreign Citizens. In 2002, she published “Challenging Stereotypes and Negotiating Space in...

... the Americas and stimulated economic development in the colonial space, and that donating to the crown opened new political and economic opportunities for middle classes (not elites or the poorer groups of society) and colonial merchants. As a result, the book constitutes an important contribution to...