Search Results for mobility

... Social Class and Social Mobility in a Costa Rican Town . By Sariola Sarari . Turrialba , 1954 . Inter-American Institute of Agricultura Sciences , Miscellaneous Publication 5. Charts. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Pp. 136 . Las trepanaciones craneanas en el Perú en la época...

... of how the socioeconomic structure of mobility allowed peninsular nephews to dominate colonial commerce at the expense of creole sons. I wish more thought and analysis had been given to the functional economic roles played by migrants as outsiders in their new settings. But these are small criticisms...

...John A. Britton Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico . By Jones Richard C. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 164 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1997...

..., Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies . By Twinam Ann . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2015 . Figure. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 534 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Ann Twinam defines what...

...Casey Marina Lurtz Household Mobility and Persistence in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1811–1842 . By Monica L. Hardin . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2017 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 150 pp. Cloth , $80.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...

...Helen Delpar The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America . By Harper Montgomery . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . Photographs. Plates. Figures. Notes. Bibliography...

... as the country’s principal teacher training facility. Based on this profile, we suggest that the normal school, although primarily an institution for the professional education of middle-class girls from the capital city, was also a vehicle of social mobility for a significant number of young women from an artisan...

... of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern US-Mexico Border . By James David Nichols . Borderlands and Transcultural Studies . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 287 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . ...

...Elena McGrath Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present . By Ben Nobbs-Thiessen . Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Peter McDonough Inequality and Social Mobility in Brazil . By Pastore José . Translated by Oxley Robert M. . Foreword by Haller Archibald O. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1982 . Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xviii , 194 . Cloth...

... to experiencing some mobility and satisfaction, especially with regard to the life chances of their sons, the men’s migration itself is interpreted as having a dampening effect on class conflict. In the communities of origin migration serves as a safety valve for potential dissidents; migrants along with natives...

...James R. Scobie Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Córdoba in the Liberal Era . By Szuchman Mark D. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1980 . Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 236 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981...

...Winthrop Wright Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans . By Von Germeten Nicole . Foreword by Angell Stephen W. and Pinn Anthony B. . The History of African-American Religions . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2006 . Map...

... of the native population into Spanish society. These analyses define social mobility in terms of the factors which permitted Indians to enter Spanish society or, conversely, prevented them from doing so. Such a definition of social mobility implicitly assumes agreement by all members of colonial society...

...Karen Graubart [email protected] Global Servants of the Spanish King: Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire . By Adolfo Polo y La Borda . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2024 . Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Ricardo Cicerchia [email protected] In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland . By Kyle E. Harvey . The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2024 . Map...

... 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...

...Brian Loveman Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America . By Cleary Edward . Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press , 2007 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 157 pp. Paper . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Edward Cleary begins with the assertion...

...Thomas D. Rogers This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil . By Wolford Wendy . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 281 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Cloth , $84.95 . Copyright...

... the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico . Over the course of an introduction, five chapters, and an epilogue, Mestaz combines archival research and oral histories to narrate Mayo peoples’ survival strategies across the twentieth century. From the end of the nineteenth century...