...J. Lloyd Mecham La iglesia y el estado en el Ecuador. (La personalidad de la iglesia en el Modus Vivendi celebrado entre la Santa Sede y el Ecuador.) By Larrea Juan Ignacio . Sevilla , 1954 . Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas . Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos...

... Finally, one cannot help but wonder what precisely Reich makes of all this. He eschews explicit value judgments, leaving the reader to wonder if the Church-State modus vivendi was a good or bad thing. To me, this is a story of two unresponsive institutions closing ranks to suppress popular demands...

... of hand. Beginning in 1960, Washington has consistently reinforced the American role as Castro’s “nemesis.” In a detailed account of Castro’s modus operandi, reflecting his “mindset” over the years, the authors analyze his early childhood hyperactive tantrums (tranquilizing medication being unknown...

... played out in three regions of the Mexican state of Michoacán. A central argument is that the Catholic Church hierarchy, by reining in the Rerum Novarum –inspired Catholic activists of the Liga Nacional Defensora de la Libertad Religiosa with the modus vivendi that ended the Cristiada of 1926–29...

... of business and economic history that D. C. M. Platt has pioneered at Oxford. Míguez sets out to achieve broad goals: to make a contribution to the knowledge of international capital circulation, and to clarify the modus operandi of British agribusiness in Argentina. In doing so, the author deals...

... of scholars to explain and illuminate the various approaches of these disparate groups in their search for a modus vivendi. The result is a volume rich in detail, insight, rigor, and original research. Yelvington opens the debate with a broad but incisive analysis of Trinidadian ethnicity from...

... and demands. Why did the government provide this potentially subversive set of skills? The answer—implied by Vaughan—is that this modus operandi allowed the government to incorporate new constituencies on its own terms . Vaughan’s book provides detailed proof for what has been mostly suspected...

... skewed his conclusions. In the short run, the reforms achieved the results the Bourbons had hoped for—greater bullion remittances and a greater degree of defensibility. However, the reforms disrupted the modus operandi of the Hapsburgs, where “obedezco pero no cumplo” provided the flexibility...

... characteristics of power generation and distribution permitted the modus vivendi. The book is an elaboration of a doctoral dissertation based on extensive field work and residence in Brazil. It is an excellent study. It does focus, however, almost exclusively on the power situation in the industrial heartland...

... returned the favor under Caldera’s presidency (1969-74), COPEI cooperated with AD’s President Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974-79), and AD today cooperates with President Luis Herrera Campins (1979-84). Venezuela’s lesser political parties rightfully complain that this apparent modus vivendi smacks...

..., a meeting that Redinger indicates ultimately led to the Modus Vivendi of 1929. This agreement ended the clerical strike initi ated in Mexico by the church in 1926. In one of his useful appendixes, Redinger includes statements exchanged between Calles and Burke. Other chapters consider individual clerics...

... as a totally ruthless and effective tyranny. The author believes that the dictator’s political skills have been underrated, and that although Gómez was widely reviled as the “Tyrant of the Andes” and the “Shame of America,” “it is debatable whether his modus operandi was more extreme than those of his...

... of these artworks as carriers of the modus operandi of the alternative press, a fact that has received little consideration in Brazilian art historiography. Additionally, in the chapter on maps the author examines artworks that, by refusing to use cartographic materials as “neatly ordered documents,” design...

... such as Paris and London, as the elites saw in Europe a reference for the modus vivendi they wished to follow. In examining this modernizing vision, the author also exposes significant changes in family structures within the elite, highlighting the different roles and expectations for family members depending...

... Robins’s new book provides a multifaceted treatment of the modus operandi of rural clergy in its relations with the communities, and the communities’ range of responses to the developing crisis in rural Upper Peru, which until now has been singularly lacking in Andean historiography. Copyright 2011...

... to describe events and analyze their causes and the repression process. Several members of the Northeastern ruling class are mentioned and the essential modus operandi of the revolts revealed in the scenario of describing communities preparing to defend themselves against the arrival from afar of groups...

... that the 1929 modus vivendi arrangement was a realistic solution. For while the author’s evidence concerning the rebellion’s magnitude is persuasive, I am less convinced than he that the Cristeros could have overthrown the government or forced a settlement very different from the one reached...

... north in West Central Africa. The new modus operandi eliminated bartering to accelerate loading operations and focused exclusively on Cuban markets. From 1851 to 1866, at least 164,000 enslaved persons were trafficked from Africa to Cuba specifically. The book makes a signal contribution by offering...

... Cuban officer recalled that “we dreamed of revolution” (p. 204). But the Cuban interventions also involved realpolitik. Throughout the 1960s, the United States spurned Cuban efforts to reach a bilateral modus vivendi. Cubans feared a U.S. invasion, and Castro and his advisors concluded that the United...

... for understanding the modern historiographical project of Fernández de Oviedo, its objectives and its modus scribendi , Dille's volume contains a translation of the aforementioned chapters 5–36 and two interesting appendixes: an account by Andrés de Urdaneta about his adventures (the shorter of the two that he...