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... New Immigration Law: Origins, Rationales, and Potential Consequences . Edited by Cornelius Wayne A. and Montoya Ricardo Anzaldúa . La Jolla : UC–San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies , 1983 . Notes. Illustrations. Appendix . Pp. 177 . Paper . ...

...Thomas O. Ott Working Papers in Haitian Society and Culture . Edited by Mintz Sidney W. . New Haven , 1975 . Antilles Research Program, Yale University . Graphs. Diagrams. Tables. Map. Appendices. Notes . Pp. 290 . Paper. The Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti...

... Cuba: Paradoxes and Potentials . Edited by Radosh Ronald . New York , 1976 . William Morrow and Company . Table . Pp. 248 . Cloth. $8.95 . ...

...Kevin Coleman Abstract Drawing on photographs of the 1954 banana workers' strike in Honduras, this article seeks to demonstrate the potential of the visual archive for recovering the historical agency of the working class. Photos from the archive of a studio photographer named Rafael Platero Paz...

... in Paraguay, the victory celebrations also stressed the theme of peacetime demobilization and the return of the troops to their civilian roles and identities. Such demobilization would reduce or eliminate the potential political role of the veterans, drawn overwhelmingly from the country’s working-class...

... of labor history and its potential contributions to other historical subfields, especially family, economic, political, social, and cultural history. The introduction concludes with a brief delineation of the articles’ methodological contributions and promising directions in the study of reproductive-labor...

... investigation into Veríssimo shows a Brazilian-US network in which literature is questioned both as a potential vehicle for subversion and as representative of its political context. Archival sources related to this investigation reveal how police agents searched for clues within fiction and how ideology often...

... as a political strategy. Transition to proportional representation was completed in 1929 with the introduction of the quotient rule. The quotient rule was also a concession from the government. However, it was not driven by Liberalism’s potential military power but by the institutional power that Liberalism had...

... then uses to diagnose the problems and potential of the Latino family. Chapter 2 concentrates on the author’s definition of political as that which transforms and shapes our quotidian environment in both personal and public terms (p. 45). Abalos considers the family a unique institution for its capacity...

... to be a contribution, broadly stated, to the study of Germans in Mexico by examining the printed impressions of that nation available to the potential traveler, emigrant, and entrepreneur in Germany. In tracing the developing themes of German views and the attitudes these may have shaped, the author begins...

... limited the development potential of the rubber sector and concomitantly of Amazonia. This essay reexamines these key problems and offers a contrasting assessment of their causes and, more generally, of the relevance of sector-level failures to the question of why the boom did not lead to sustained...

..., or Japanese imports from Ecuador. In the United States, by far the greatest importer of all, the potential market increase may be limited to population growth only, since the per capita consumption has already reached saturation point. In Europe E.E.C.’s high tariffs and preferential treatment to former...

...: to present a basic descriptive account of the way of life of Hualcan, and, at the same time, to “explore the human potential” of the community (p. 13f), meaning to assess the “possibilities for socio-economic development.” The description is here, although often obscured or disorganized by the burden...

... of fear” or, alternately, a “failed landscape” that could potentially be overturned or redeemed through the civilizing actions of the Spanish empire (pp. 30, 71). It is this potential for the “failed landscape” to be transformed that Carte emphasizes in the book's latter chapters. These move away from...

... of suitable age for mine work. Given Parral’s Spanish population of about 800 vecinos by 1639, the proportion of even potential black miners seems modest indeed. Punctuated with factual and stylistic inaccuracies and a carelessly printed text, Mayer’s monograph is further marred by his obviously limited...

... their acute sense of the potential of insurrection and race war inherent in slavery. Alfred Hunt juxtaposes manipulation of this symbol by white southerners and northern abolitionists, the former to defend slavery as necessary to contain the ever-present potential for violence, the latter to condemn slavery...

... by Duke University Press 1995 This volume is particularly timely in view of the current national discussion regarding universal health care delivery in the United States, its potential cost and efficacy. The book is the product of a workshop organized by the Harvard Center for Population...

... with a very sensitive ego. responds with arguments “ad personam” which go from the amusing—my academic rank is nonexistent; I am only “of Georgetown”—, to the absurd. A short book review has been transformed into a conspiracy of McCarthyism and cold war pikes, designed to keep potential readers away from...

... may have influenced the results of the extensive surface surveys undertaken on the Xoxocotlán Piedmont. On the basis of their analyses of potential biases, the authors are able to adjust their new findings in order to make their interpretations reliable and useful. While one might have wished...