...Olga Jiménez-Wagenheim Puerto Rico’s Statehood Movement . By Meléndez Edgardo . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1988 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 194 . Cloth . $37.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Meléndez’s book is very timely; besides filling...

...Marcial E. Ocasio-Melendez The Mexican Revolution in Puebla, 1908-1913: The Maderista Movement and the Failure of Liberal Reform . By La France David G. . Wilmington : Scholarly Resources Books . Introduction. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxxix , 272 . Cloth . $35.00...

...Kristin H. Ruggiero Within this chronological narrative, the reader finds a good synthesis of the historical debate on progressive versus traditional views of women’s nature; their relationship to men; and their role in the family, both as the debate was carried on by women in the movement...

...Neale J. Pearson U.S. Labor Movement and Latin America: A History of Workers' Response to Intervention . Volume I. 1846-1919 . By Foner Philip S. . South Hadley, MA : Bergin and Garvey , 1988 . Notes. Index . Pp. x , 228 . Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University...

...Charles Bergquist The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Struggles of the National Peasant Association . By Zamosc Leon . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 289 . Cloth . Copyright...

...Robert Henriques Girling Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism . By Stephens Evelyn Huber and Stephens John D. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. References. Index . Pp...

... both Moscow and the West, this is astonishing. Sandford’s ignorance logically leads him to stress the role of personality in the implosion within the New Jewel Movement (NJM): he is “not sure’’ about the extent of ideological differences. Indeed, he ducks the issue as the book, he stresses, focuses...

...David Sowell Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America . By Collier David and Ruth Collier Berins . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1991 . Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Indexes...

...John Martinez The Rise of the Latin American Labor Movement . By Troncoso Moisés Poblete and Burnett Ben G. . New Haven, Connecticut , 1960 . College and University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 179 . Paper. $1.75 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964...

...Gabriel Jackson The Federal Republic in Spain. Pi y Margall and the Federal Republic Movement, 1868-74 . By Hennessy C. A. M. . New York , 1962 . Oxford University Press . Appendix, Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 299 . $7.20 . Spain and the Great Powers, 1936...

...Samuel Shapiro International Communism, in Latin America. A History of the Movement, 1917-1963 . By Poppino Rollie E. . New York , 1964 . Free Press of Glencoe . Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 247 . $6.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Rollie...

...C.C.G. The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836, A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People . By Barker Eugene C. . ( Second edition; Austin : The Texas State Historical Association , 1949 . Pp. xix , 477 . $10.00 . Illustrations, maps...

...John Shelton Curtiss Natsional’no-osvoboditel’noe i rabochee dvizhenie v stranakh Latinskoi Ameriki posle Vtoroi Mirovoi voiny; lektsii (The National Liberation and Workers’ Movement in the Countries of Latin America After the Second World War; lectures) . By Ermolaev Vasilii Ivanovich...

... on. 59 The third type of movement mentioned—dispersal—also reflects a weakening of the community’s cohesive forces but in a far more orderly and predictable pattern. The dynamic tension that existed between forces of sociocultural integration, on the one hand, and the prevailing mode of exploiting...

... not connected class position with the family’s ability to regulate its patrimony, nor have they explained the civil war among revolutionary factions of the same class. This essay approaches such unanswered questions in line with perceptions of the time. It is important to look at the independence movement again...

... in the Great Depression ; John H. Burma’s Spanish-speaking Groups in the United States ; and Francisco J. Lewels, Jr., The Uses of the Media by the Chicano Movement . Of these, Hoffman’s is the most important. Since history has been a neglected area in Mexican-American studies, Hoffman’s well researched...

...Ben G. Burnett Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America . By Alba Víctor . Stanford , 1968 . Stanford University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 404 . $12.50 . Still, the balance of the book is overwhelmingly...

... the forces that retarded and ultimately destroyed early trade unionism in Brazil. Studying the inefficacy of the Brazilian movement, however, raises a broader question: why have some working-class movements failed, while others under apparently similar circumstances have survived and even flourished? We...

...Arthur P. Whitaker The Persistence of the Westward Movement and Other Essays . By Parish John Carl . With an Introduction by Clark Dan Elbert . ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1943 . Pp. xxii , 187 , $2.00 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University...