...Rollie E. Poppino Brazil in the International System examines Brazil’s long-standing quest for world power status, which has been “little less than breathtaking over the past twenty years” (p. xiii). A broad perspective on Brazilian achievements and goals is found in the first half of the book...

...Camillia Cowling The Power of Their Will: Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba . By Teresa Prados-Torreira . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2021 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 132 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University...

...Carlos R. Hernández Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán . By Matilde Córdoba Azcárate . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 278 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2023...

...Paul Gootenberg Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Twentieth-Century Peru and Latin America . By Iñigo García-Bryce . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 257 pp. Paper, $32.50 . Copyright © 2023...

... to go about reconstructing critically the island's labor history, there are no clues about what alternative archives must be examined to do so. The critique of how archives are formed is more developed than the critique of how historians use archives, which perhaps grants excessive power to the archive...

...Katherine Elaine Bliss Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico . Edited by Olcott Jocelyn , Vaughan Mary Kay , and Cano Gabriela . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 320 pp. Cloth , $79.95...

...Gregory Hammond The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina . Edited by Karush Matthew B. Chamosa Oscar . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 309 pp. Paper , $23.95...

...Marta Zambrano Escovar Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru . By Burns Kathryn . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xv, 247 pp. Paper , $22.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 This book sheds new...

... Gómez-Galvarriato demonstrates how the revolution of 1910 – 20 altered the balance of power between employers and workers. As progressive forces gained control over the federal government, textile workers found that their long-stymied efforts at unionization were now protected. After the government...

...Michele Reid-Vazquez “Damned Notions of Liberty”: Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640–1769 . By Proctor Frank T. III . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 282 pp. Paper...

...Andrew J. Kirkendall Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845–1889 . By Santos Martha S. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. xvii, 295 pp. Cloth , $65.00...

... of the extensive Donald Rady papers on the Brazilian steel industry and Volta Redonda kept in the Department of Special Collections of the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA. In analyzing the strategic division of labor and seeking to determine where bargaining power lay at its strongest, this book pays...

.... For scientists and communities alike, the environmental theory of forests remained a powerful weapon in forestry politics beyond the 1940s. More research is needed into how environmental theories of forests have affected knowledge production. Despite these concerns, Instituting Nature is theoretically rigorous...

...David Sartorius Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 . By Guerra Lillian . Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2012 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 467 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

... estates, or haciendas, where settlements existed on privately owned land? How did local governance function in the absence of public space for republican institutions to grow in? This article examines the challenges to landed power initiated by requests from two hacienda communities in the state...

... of the book to power struggles secular authorities had both among themselves and with ecclesiastical authorities. She points to the structural “jurisdictional tensions” built into the colonial system from early on, but she also acknowledges that the balance of power had been arranged by custom. Tensions arose...

...Clara Bargellini Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World . Edited by Mccloskey Jason and Alemany Ignacio López . Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xxii, 246 pp. Cloth , $85.00 . Copyright ©...

...Bonham C. Richardson Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838–1900 . By Moore Brian L. . Kingston : University of the West Indies Press ; Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 1995 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... concerns of such later governors as Juan Bautista de Anza and Fernando de la Concha. Another factor in the Franciscans’ loss of power in New Mexico was inadequate staffing levels for the growing population. This was a result of Spanish crown policies designed to save money and limit the role...

...John C. Super Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture . By Bauer Arnold J. . New Approaches to the Americas . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . xx , 245 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Paper , $17.95...