...Jeffrey D. Needell 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.2-04 Needell 5/11/01 2:26 PM Page 259 Party Formation and State-Making: The Conservative Party and the Reconstruction of the Brazilian State, 1831–1840...

... enslaved and endured a harsh captivity of several years. Eventually, they managed to escape and work their way across the northern Mexican landscape as itinerant shamans or healers. They encountered a party of Spanish slavers who, upon realizing that they were not Indians, returned them to...

...Timothy J. Henderson Maximino Ávila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico . By Quintana Alejandro . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2010 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xviii, 155 pp. Cloth . Copyright...

... Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challenge the Peruvian Communist Party’s claims to represent and lead workers. APRA’s anti-Communism grew out of Víctor Haya de la Torre’s...

...Brian McBeth Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela . By Seawright Jason . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 293 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 It is always...

...Jeffrey C. Mosher 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.4_11 Mosher 1/4/01 5:26 PM Page 879 Legacies HAHR 80.4_11 Mosher 1/4/01 5:26 PM Page 880 HAHR 80.4_11 Mosher 1/4/01 5:26 PM Page 881 Political Mobilization, Party Ideology...

...David Rock Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s. By paula alonso. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2000. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 242 pp. Cloth, $52.95. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.1-07...

...Hobart A. Spalding Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. By james w. mcguire. Stanford: Stanford University Press,1997. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 388. Cloth, $55.00. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.1_08 Book Review 2/11/00 4:43 PM...

... communists’ organizational, legal, and political acumen, Rio’s iconic favelas might never have become a permanent and precious urban foothold for the migrant poor. Without the residents’ support, the Brazilian Communist Party might not have experienced electoral triumph in the late 1940s or maintained a...

... delegates to the regime-allied political party’s state convention rejected the generals’ anointed gubernatorial candidate and narrowly nominated the rebel Paulo Maluf, who would go on to be confirmed by a manipulated electoral college. Although Maluf and the delegates did not challenge the regime on...

...Geneviève Dorais Abstract This article tells an untold story about Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the legendary leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party. It contextualizes and deepens the existing analysis of how he came of age politically and engaged with the formation of the American Popular...

... communal property rights, proclaiming “land to the original owners.” Revisionist scholars in the 1980s and 1990s, critical of the revolution, argued that the nationalist party eroded communal property rights. This article demonstrates that comunario political action after the revolution not only succeeded...

... concrete resistance. They did this via the clandestine distribution of funds to Chile, human rights campaigns at the United Nations to isolate the Chilean dictatorship, and efforts to undermine US-Chilean bilateral relations. Simultaneously, Chilean left-wing parties had to come to terms with defeat and...

... (especially in their bellicosity as montoneras — irregular militia units) as a natural reflection of the projects of elites, factions, patrons, or parties. That historiography dismissed as irrelevant any demands stemming from the gauchos and peasantry themselves, such as those based on the long historical...

...Sebastián Mazzuca; James A. Robinson After a long period of chaos, political order in Colombia emerged in the mid-1900s. This transition was driven by a change in the institutional allocation of political power. After the Thousand Days' War, Colombia's two parties agreed to share power by means of...

... a material stake. Through a series of lawsuits between indigenous parties, Spanish jurists—especially Ondegardo—developed explanations for this apparently alien social institution and integrated it into the colonial state. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Litigation as Ethnography in...

...Elizabeth Quay Hutchison This article examines the unique history of household workers' activism in Chile from the 1950s to the 1990 transition to democracy, drawing on archival and oral sources to argue that key alliances with the Catholic Church, Center and Left parties, and feminist...

...Karen B. Graubart This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the “indio solarero” and the “indio criollo.” These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties or with their approval...

... closer attention. The task, however, was not easy, because in Argentina liberalism had not been clearly defined and had not become the sole banner of a political party or group. Liberalism was the uncontested ideology from 1880 to 1910 among all political parties and most men of letters, although...