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... no large-scale popular mobilization or destruction of haciendas, it had left the great landowners politically weakened. At the same time, the old Porfirian political class had practically vanished by the 1920s. 2 Thus, when events conspired to allow some peasant groups to procure arms, they found...

.... Gelman’s critique calls on us to look again at the old problem of gauchos and rural society in the Río de la Plata. Our article proposed that, during the late colonial period, peons possessed the power to influence the labor market of the Banda Oriental. At the time, the environment was characterized...

..., with a population of a little more than 20,000 in the Buenos Aires rural sector, which of course is not composed entirely of potential workers, since the figure includes children, old people, women who do not work, etc. This means that during the greatest part of the year (the dead months) the demand for labor...

...William F. Sharp Old Roots in New Lands: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas . Edited by Pescatello Ann M. . Westport, Conn. , 1977 . Greenwood Press . Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 301 . Cloth...

... the consequences of the collapse of the old colonial system. However, beyond the controversy, the crucial significance of this period for the now diverging history of the two countries must be universally admitted. For Brazil, of course, this was the time of the birth of the nation, when crucial choices were...

...Mackenzie Cooley [email protected] Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things . By Sarah Newman . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2023 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 282 pp. Paper, $30.00 . Copyright © 2025...

... contributed to the concentration of New Christians in commerce are familiar and need not be elaborated here. The converse theoretical explanation is that Portuguese gentiles (or Old Christians) abandoned the field to the interlopers because of their inability or unwillingness to compete with the New...

...A.U. Old Villages and a New Town: Industrialization in Mexico . By Miller Frank C. . Foreword by Kiste Robert C. and Ogan Eugene . Menlo Park, California , 1973 . Cummings Publishing Company . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 161 . Paper...

...Marc Simmons The Old World Background of The Irrigation System of San Antonio, Texas . By Glick Thomas F. . El Paso, Texas , 1972 . Texas Western Press . Monograph, 35 . Maps . Pp. 67 . Paper. $3.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Initialed book notices...

...Frances K. Hendricks Missions of Old Texas . By Burke James Wakefield . South Brunswick, New York, and London , 1971 . A. S. Barnes and Company and Thomas Yoseloff Ltd . Map. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 179 . Cloth. $8.50 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press...

...Mark W. Lentz [email protected] Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation . By Nicole von Germeten . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 268 pp. Paper...

...Lisa Sousa [email protected] Aztec and Maya Apocalypses: Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting . By Mark Z. Christensen . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2022 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii , 239 pp. Cloth, $55.00 . Copyright © 2024...

...Francisco Vidal Luna Navigating Life and Work in Old Republic São Paulo . By Molly C. Ball Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 2020 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii , 271 pp. Paper, $35.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke...

.... Immersed in the wreckage of the past, an old man surveyed the ruins and imagined a future that looked nothing like the world outside his doors. This article analyzes Espinosa's prophecy and explores the methodological challenges of studying historical subjects who are at odds with their earlier selves...

...C.C.G. A History of the Old South . By Eaton Clement . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 592 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ...

...Philip W. Powell Baroque Times in Old Mexico, Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places, and Practices . By Leonard Irving A. . Ann Arbor , 1959 . The University of Michigan Press . Map. Illustration. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 260 . Cloth. $6.50 . Copyright 1960 by Duke University...

...Joe B. Frantz The Old Santa Fe Trail . By Vestal Stanley . New York , 1957 . Bantam Books . Illustrations. Appendices . Pp. x , 276 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...E. I. McCormac John Tyler, Champion of the Old South . By Chitwood Oliver Perry . ( New York : D. Appleton-Century Company , 1939 . Pp. ix , 496 . $4.00 .) Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 ...

...George M. Wrong France Overseas Through the Old Régime. A Study of European Expansion . By Priestley Herbert Ingram . ( New York : D. Appleton Century Company , 1939 . Pp. xvii , 393 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 ...