...Robert J. Alexander Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change . Edited by Hartlyn Jonathan and Morley Samuel A. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1986 . Notes. Tables. References . Pp. 386 . Cloth . $38.00 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University...

... relationships and in making sense of deviations from “expected” results (for example, the inability of standard modernization theory to explain patterns of participation in Venezuela). The authors’ aim is to take the methods, insights, and goals of politically oriented North American survey research and use...

...William P. Tucker Robert E. Scott’s essay, “Mexico: The Established Revolution,” will be of most interest to Latin Americanists. Scott notes that Mexico has sought to modernize politically without using a dictatorial or rigid ideological framework, and also that the modernization...

... in “Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism,” published in HAHR 80 (2000), not least since the political culture of their scholarship is clearly quite parochial. They may well be familiar with “German-language literature on European perceptions of the New World,” but apparently...

...David Barkin Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 . By Ochoa Enrique C. . Latin American Silhouettes . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 2000 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 267 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University...

... intellectuals and nearby rural indigenous communities could become radicalized at the same time and yet remain divided is a tremendous contribution to our thinking about social and political conflict and coalitions in internal conflict. Indeed, this history informs our understanding of the crucial Peruvian...

...Nina Schneider The book's dynamic memory struggle approach seems particularly timely. The book reads like a warning, a call for continued defense of justice and human rights. As the editors rightly point out, “Nothing is predetermined or unchangeable” (p. 11). In the current political climate...

...Adrian A. Bantjes Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir . By Bornemann Alberto Ulloa . Edited and translated by Schmidt Arthur and De Schmidt Aurora Camacho . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. Cloth...

...Ronn Pineo Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900 – 1950 . By Zulawski Ann . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 253 pp. Cloth , $74.95 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke...

... in Exile: Disaffection and the Revolution , and the editor of Cuba: The Political Content of Adult Education . The present volume includes some of this previously published material, but also breaks new ground. It begins with a discussion of the radical effort to transform Cuban society by creating...

...Richard J. Walter 37 La Vanguardia , Jan. 21, 1918, p. 1. 38 La Vanguardia , Jan. 28, 1918, p. 1 and Feb. 9, 1918, p. 1. See also Carl Solberg, “The Tariff and Politics in Argentina, 1916-1930,” HAHR , 53 (May 1973), 260-284. 39 La Vanguardia , Jan. 31, 1918, p. 1. 40...

...David F. Trask Latin America in the International Political System . By Atkins G. Pope . New York , 1977 . The Free Press . Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 448 . Cloth. $11.95 . Latin American Diplomatic History: An Introduction . By Davis Harold Eugene...

...Gilbert Merkx Elites and Economic Development: Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities . By Walton John . Austin , 1977 . University of Texas Press . Tables. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 257 . Cloth. $14.95 . Paper. $5.95 . Copyright...

...Sanford A. Mosk Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Political, Economic, and Social Problems of the Latin-American Nations of Southern South America . [ The University of Texas, Institute of Latin-American Studies, Latin-American Studies, VI .] ( Austin : The University...

...Muriel McAvoy Soviet Seapower in the Caribbean: Political and Strategic Implications . Edited by Thebebge James D. . New York , 1972 . Prager Publishers . Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography . Pp. xv , 175 . Cloth. $13.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975...

... outlines its theoretic foundations, discusses the political and economic implications, reveals the internal contradictions, and points out the difficulties of implementing it in the hostile environment created by a determined opposition in control of most of the economic and political apparatus...

...Margaret Todaro Williams The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church . By Bruneau Thomas C. . New York , 1974 . Cambridge University Press . Map. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 270 . Cloth . $16.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University...

...Walter Krause The Future of Underdeveloped Countries. Political Implications of Economic Development . Revised Edition. By Staley Eugene . New York , 1961 . Harper & Bros . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 483 . $5.50 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962...