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... quickly exhausted its financial resources. Unrest engulfed the nation and resulted in unseating General Carlos Ibáñez in July 1931. The return to civilian government did not restore order for in September 1931 the Chilean navy mutinied while on maneuvers off Coquimbo. Historically, Chile’s fleet had...

...Frederick M. Nunn Once the naval mutiny was put down, unity of purpose diminished among members of the Trucco government. But their goal remained essentially the same: full restoration of constitutional processes. Guzmán’s chronicling of the events of September and early October, culminating...

...Thomas Flory A brief account, based on contemporary newspapers, of two inconsequential troop mutinies that took place in Recife in 1831. The participants, like unpaid and uneasy garrisons all over Brazil in the 1830s, seem to have been most concerned with corporal punishment, bad rations...

... insurrection in Buenos Aires in 1795 on the later plots, mutinies, and popular movements that initiated the independence movement in May 1810. alejandro de la fuente is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics...

...Donald E. Worcester On learning that the royalist ships had sailed south Cochrane sent Commodore William Wilkinson to search the Gulf of California with the Independencia and Araucano . The British members of the Araucano’s crew mutinied, set Simpson and the Chilean seamen ashore...

... between the Jesuits and the creole landowning elite of Corrientes. The most interesting and useful section of the book details the background to the series of military mutinies, riots, assassinations, attacks on royal officials, and efforts to establish local autonomy that afflicted Corrientes between...

... of military intervention in the political process—the coups of 1948, 1962, and 1968—and judiciously explores the troubled relationship between the military and the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) from the civil war of the Sánchez Cerro era in the early 1930s to the 1948 Callao Mutiny...

... in the civil-military conflict of 1924-1927 is treated in cursory fashion. But curiously the Potemkin-style mutiny of 1931 receives an excellent, though “official” treatment. One wonders why López chose not to examine the extraprofessional activities of naval officers in those earlier periods, and why he...

... obligations in other areas and intervention in the French civil wars diverted military and economic resources away from the Netherlands. Logistical failures which in turn produced well organized mutinies often prevented Spanish commanders from striking at critical moments. Dutch tenacity and control...

..., 1964, all of us would have lost our posts” (p. 297). Someone might have explained to Guedes that late in March 1964, after the navy mutiny, officers throughout Brazil were eager to act as he did. Their restraint, due to understandings that the movement should be coordinated, did not call for censure...

... that he addresses and by the breadth of his analysis. The presentation is rich in graphs, charts, and statistics, even to the point of including catalogs of military actions and troop mutinies. While the book’s most pervasive theme is the hopeless misery of the enlisted man, its most striking data...

... conciseness and course; there is no gas. There are brilliant introductory and concluding essays which offer fresh, bold, and sophisticated generalizations. In between there are four large sections: “The Areas of Operation,” “Collisions and Mutinies [a curious euphemism for political rebellions],” “The Second...

... the specialists expected for a first contact. Instead, he set out to find islands ‘toward India,” which he did. Nor is there evidence for the near mutiny beloved by storytellers. The first landing more likely occurred on 11 October than on the celebrated date, although it will never be possible to figure out...

... in the 1880s. He also reminds us that some in the army were willing to die for the monarchy: late 1889 saw two anti-republican mutinies of enlisted men, suppressed with loss of life. Castro’s use of personal papers, letters, and diaries allows him to humanize his subject; his wry sense of humor makes...

... encompassed popular mutinies, military revolts, and a short civil war. In addition, the Sociedad de la Igualdad was the forerunner of a political group created in the early 1860s as its “ideological heir” and continuation—the Radical party, the emergence and membership of which are treated in this book...

... social reformer converted to brutal treatment of his workers, the man who wanted to impose on his Amazonian employees a diet of soybeans for breakfast and puritanical sexual practices, and consequently faced rebellion and mutiny; who tried to speed up nature itself in his exploitation of the rubber...

... into the ruling system. It will take a prolonged economic crisis and a serious deterioration of present structural context to rouse the peasants from apathy, to sophisticate the radical leadership, to cause the soldiers to mutiny, and to allow the nationalist bourgeoisie to triumph over the present comprador...

...). In a phenomenon reminiscent of present-day “embedded journalism,” he quotes an 1848 source estimating that some 1,000–1,500 press people joined the invading army. U.S. military success did not guarantee that all was well among the troops in the field, however. Bruce Winders uses the case of an 1847 mutiny near...

..., which separated sick children from their families and cordoned off regions from one another, did not work. Villagers' refusal to comply with anticontagion measures, which escalated to mutiny in some cases, was shaped by affect between parents and children, by understandings of family responsibility...

... death as punishment for his alleged mutiny. Reséndez argues that Martín's Blackness influenced this unjust sentence; the San Lucas 's white captain was permitted to go to Spain. But Martín refused this fate, leading a shipboard insurrection that led to his abandonment on an atoll with a troupe...