... . . . throughout the Atlantic world” (p. 239). She makes a passing reference to a parallel with the divergence between western and eastern Europe in early modern times. The cause of the divergence in the Americas lies in the fact that “the birth of the American nations began within a multinational network...

...Xabier Lamikiz Abstract This article takes a fresh look at merchant networks that linked Spain and colonial Peru in the central decades of the eighteenth century. Spain’s trade with its American colonies has been studied primarily in the light of mercantilistic policies design to revive...

...Emiliano Fernández De Pinedo Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World: Spanish Merchants and Their Overseas Networks . By Lamikiz Xabier . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press , 2010 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 211 pp...

...Alex Borucki Abstract The experience of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing redefined the meanings of the nomenclature emerging from the slave trade. Under violent conditions, captives developed networks with shipmates on board slave vessels. These ties survived for decades if shipmates...

...James P. Brennan Poor People’s Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita . By Auyero Javier . Durham : Duke University Press , 2001 . Illustration. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 257 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2003...

...Stuart B. Schwartz Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks . Edited by Rosenmüller Christoph . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2017 . Maps. Notes. Glossary. Index. viii, 228 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Oliver Dinius A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil . By Jarnagin Laura . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2008 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi , 312 pp. Cloth , $49.75 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University...

...Martin Biersack Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata . By Prado Fabrício . Oakland : University of California Press , 2015 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 245 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke...

... spent his life building and maintaining his standing in this community. Although we don't know whether an inheritance helped him get his start, numerous archival records demonstrate that he built a dense patronage network through activities that helped him accumulate or maintain wealth: military service...

...Dan Rood Cuban Sugar Industry: Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba . By Curry-Machado Jonathan . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 264 pp. Cloth , $85.00...

...Graciela Márquez Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico’s Early Industrialization . By Razo Armando . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2008 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 246 pp. Cloth , $65.00...

...Henry Dietz Supported with extraordinarily rich ethnographic and sociological data, Lomnitz shows how the urban poor create a variety of informal associational networks, including family and kinship structures, compadrazgo, reciprocal exchanges, cuatismo (close friendships), and confianza...

... Family Networks is an important work in that it redefines our approach to understanding nineteenth-century Latin America, describes and generalizes family strategies and behavior for the first time, and presents a valuable historiographic essay on family studies pertaining to the nineteenth century...

...David R. Ringrose In the end, this reviewer’s most lasting impression is not of road networks and settlement hierarchies. It is of a civilization (in the broadest sense) of highly organized empires, states, tribal kingdoms, and statelets that spread far more widely across American time and space...

...Jesse Horst Abstract Shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the government eradicated Havana's most famous shantytown, Las Yaguas. This essay traces more than a decade of negotiations between shantytown networks and government officials that preceded the eradication. While previous scholarship...

... in choosing to focus on networks, Mulich sometimes allows ordinary people to fade from view. While Mulich argues that his model allows him to highlight structural realities, institutional influences, and individual autonomy without having to rely on the “character-driven narratives” that often serve...

...José C. Moya Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion . By Kirwin R. Shaffer Global and International History . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...