...Heidi Tinsman Abstract This essay interprets Chilean accounts of a loyalty oath by Chinese coolies to the Chilean army during the War of the Pacific against a broader social history of Chinese agrarian resistance in Peru and military experience in China. The essay argues that masculinity and labor...

...Coburn V. Graves If Not, Not. The Oath of the Aragonese and the Legendary Laws of Sobrarbe . By Giesey Ralph E. . Princeton , 1968 . Princeton University Press . Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 277 . $9.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969...

... the principal aim of the law was the disentailment and circulation of property, the sale to individuals stipulated by the corporations would serve this purpose. 12 Despite the clerical position, however, the oath to the Constitution was taken peacefully in the majority of places, with opposition...

... Luis, but elsewhere the rural inhabitants evidently were overlooked. Everywhere the clergy, regular and secular, endorsed independence with enthusiasm. Apparently, the oath was expected to accomplish two purposes: to oblige every one by a “religious act” to defend independence; and to restore unity...

... as “oath swearing” on p. 198 should more properly be called “oath helping.” Modern Bolivia was Upper Peru in the seventeenth century (p. 45). Not everyone would accept the judgment that the French Revolution “brought about . . . the subsequent dissolution of the [Spanish] empire” (p. 175...

... of deciphering cultural concepts as they passed into the new colonial setting. Taking and administering oaths was also a practice that had profound moral implications and with which the friars wrestled. These words tested the boundaries of the question of personhood for the natives and also challenged...

... was that they swear an oath that the goods delivered to the Americans had been “purchased . . . with their own money remitted to Spain for that purpose.” 14 Both the Cádiz consulado and the Casa de la Contratación interpreted “mutual trade” to mean that the Americans could send their funds to whomever they wished...

... somewhat in their scope and specificity. In the laws of Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay, the provisions were sweeping and general. In Argentina, and also Costa Rica, they were specifically related to the oath required of naturalized citizens. In Brazil and Chile, denaturalization...

..., of the Royal Marines, a book containing the oath of allegiance to His Britannick Majesty, signed at Buenos Ayres in the course of July 1806 by fifty-eight Inhabitants of that City, together with the Paroles of Spanish and Creole Officers of the Regular and Provincial army of Buenos Ayres, commencing the 1st...

... the President to swear an oath of loyalty upon taking office. Passed: 58-24 (p. 435) .2235 36 To grant the President the authority to establish all types of ports, to fix maritime and border customs houses, and to designate their location. Passed: 67-10 (Actas: 68-11) (p. 441) .0892 37 To grant...

... of Pope Paul V, Suárez denounced the concept of personal absolutism proclaimed by James I of England, who required that his subjects take a “loyalty oath” upholding it. It is interesting that as an orthodox Spanish theologian Suárez clearly indicated the dangers inherent in this form of political...

... sources, among them the Bolivarian editions of Vicente Lecuna. For clarity’s sake the orthography has been modernized. The result is a well conceived book which not only contains such famous documents as the Oath of Rome, the Manifesto of Cartagena, the Letter of Jamaica, the Message to the Congress...

... or articles on them. Father Antonio José Martínez of Taos is unidentified (p. 191, n. 68). Needing correction are unqualified statements to the effect that Mexico regarded California as its most urgent security risk in the north (p. 121) or that Spanish padres in California who refused to take the oath...

...! Samuel Johnson’s sardonic comment on the Truth as expressed in epitaphs applies equally to memorial volumes: “No man is put on oath.” The various authors, in turn, recognize this situation as they make light references to “the apparent contradictions of his turbulent life that did not compromise...

... discussion of the normally tiresome debate about which hill of Rome was the site of the future Liberator’s oath to free his homeland. Here the author notes the efforts of Italian fascists to steer historians away from the correct answer because of its democratic connotations in Italian internal affairs...

... readability and accuracy. A number of misinterpretations, however, are noticeable. For example, “Ellos son los exigentes” does not mean “Those were exaggerations” (p. 2) but “They are the critical ones”; “Júrame que” is not “I had to take an oath” (p. 148) but “Swear to me that”; “casi implorante...

... six consecutive elections after 1951 (p. 4). The NJM had started publishing a newspaper long before they came to power (p. 9), and testimony given under oath indicate that Coard did not order the attack on Fort Rupert (p. 25). The governor-general could easily be asked to verify the timing of his...

... the oath of loyalty to the Princess Juana in 1462 (p. 39, from the same source) is clear proof that those modern scholars who accuse Isabella of lying in her circular letter of 1471 do so at their peril. As a storehouse of information, then, the book has great merits. It does not have many others. Even...

.... Jaime Olveda emphasizes that Mexican viceroy Francisco Javier Venegas retracted his oath to the constitution. Moisés Guzmán Pérez makes some rather sharp, if not totally clear, criticisms of non-Mexican historians on the subject, while emphasizing that Mexican indigenous communities rarely recognized...

... of and resistance to oppressive social norms is not a novel observation. Readers interested in the subject of lay religiosity might wish the author to explore or hypothesize the deeper religious sensibilities that lay behind the oaths. The questions that pertain are far more interesting than the simple problem...