...Gerard Béhague Both publications will prove useful for historical studies of Brazilian popular culture and ultimately for gaining further insights into Brazilian cultural reality. Música popular: teatro & cinema reveals a wealth of information in an area heretofore almost totally...

...: the history of the Banco Popular Dominicano, the economic and financial context and the initiatives to deal with it, and finally a history of inspired management. It is much more than an institutional history. We get some clear views of cohesion and dissent in the hoard, of leadership and failure. Moya Pons...

...Charles L. Stansifer Educando a Costa Rica: Alfabetización popular, formación docente y género (1880–1950) . By Molina Iván and Palmer Steven . Colección Ciencias Sociales . San José : Editorial Porvenir , 2000 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography . 180 pp. Paper...

...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...

.... Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions . By Wampler Brian . Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 . Tables...

...Deborah Jakubs Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music . By Karush Matthew B. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 268 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...

...Catherine C. Legrand The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo . By Derby Lauren . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv, 410 pp. Paper , $25.95 . Copyright...

... exclusion and repression of union movements), in Oaxaca popular urban social movements reached their zenith despite government intimidation, repression, manipulation and co-option, leading eventually to the fall of the alemanista governor. The explanation of this phenomenon pervades Smith’s entire book...

...E. Bradford Burns Because of its wealth of statistical material, sober interpretation, and broad implications for the rest of the hemisphere, de Vylder’s book merits the attention of every Latin American historian. Steadfastly dwelling on the economic program of the Unidad Popular, the book...

... Filipino Popular Tales . Memoirs of The American Folk-Lore Society, XII . Collected and edited, with comparative notes, by Fansler Dean S. Ph.D. ( Lancaster, Pa., and New York : published by the American Folk-Lore Society (G. E. Stechert & Co., New York, agents) , 1921 . Pp...

...Duvon C. Corbitt The Cuban Revolution. A Report to the Eighth National Congress of the Popular Socialist Party of Cuba . By Roca Blas . New York , 1961 . New Century Publishers . Pp. 127 . Paper. $1.25 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 At the August, 1960...

... of nineteenth-century popular politics across Brazil and Latin America. As he moves through the analysis in the course of the chapters, Kraay returns to several larger points. One is that Bahia's focus on battles as the ultimate cause of independence challenged traditional narratives that exclusively...

...Andrew Konove Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879–1932 . By Christina M. Jiménez Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2019 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii , 402 pp. Cloth, $50.00 . Copyright © 2020...

...Alexander Marchant Biblioteca popular brasileira . [ Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Instituto Nacional do Livro . ( Rio de Janeiro : Imprensa Nacional , 1943 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

...Duvon C. Corbitt Sintesis histórica de la vivienda popular. Los horrores del solar habanero . By Chailloux Cardona Juan M. . [ Biblioteca dé Historia, Filosofía y Sociología, Vol. XX .] ( Habana : Jesús Montero, Editor , 1945 . Pp. 163 . Paper.) Copyright 1946 by Duke University...

...Gilbert Chase Popular Cuban Music . Eighty revised and corrected compositions together with an essay on the evolution of music in Cuba by Grenet Emilio . Prologue by Dr. de Fuentes Eduardo Sánchez . Translated by Phillips R. . ( Havana : Carasa & Co. , 1939 . Pp. xlix...

...Irving A. Leonard España y la Educación popular en América . Por Bayle Constantino S. J. ( Madrid : Instituto Pedagógico F. A. E. , 1934 . Pp. 388 . 12 pesetas .) Copyright 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 ...

...Richard Pattee España y la Educación popular en America . By Bayle Constantino S. J. ( Madrid : Editorial F. A. E. 1934 . Pp. 392 .) Copyright 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 ...

...Rafael Heliodoro Valle El habla popular y campesina de Tabasco . By Gutiérrez Eskilden Rosario María . ( Mexico, D. F. : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Faculdad de Filosofía y Letras , 1941 . Mimeographed. Plates, 9; 1 map . Pp. 92 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University...