...John Soluri 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.3_04 Soluri(463-502) 8/4/00 3:27 PM Page 463 People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875–1950 John Soluri...

...Charles F. Walker Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru . By Anne Lambright . Liverpool Latin American Studies . Liverpool, UK : Liverpool University Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 212 pp. Cloth , £80.00...

...Owen Jones The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan . By Mark Z. Christensen . The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes...

...Carmen Sesto 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Vanguard Landowners of Buenos Aires: A New Production Model, 1856–1900 Carmen Sesto Argentina’s specialization in beef cattle, whose quality remains unsurpassed even today, was planned and implemented by a small group of landowners...

...Gertrude M. Yeager Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru . By Meléndez Mariselle . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 235 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright...

...Aviva Chomsky Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Edited by steve striffler and mark moberg. American Encounters / Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 364 pp. Cloth...

...Pablo Lacoste This article examines the role of entrepreneurial women in colonial Mendoza, a trade and transport center characterized by wine production. In other economic activities, such as cattle raising and transportation, female ownership of the local means of productions was practically...

... the briny lands began to torment the city. Intermittently from 1912 to 1950, the Mexican government carried out an ambitious drainage and fertilization project to curtail the dust storms and create an agricultural oasis. The government’s vision of a verdant and productive Texcoco bed generated...

... Zacatecas through the colonial period. Using Spanish sources, this article highlights the importance of their contributions to the production of silver and to the settlement of the city and its four Indian towns. It argues for a broader understanding of the labor involved in silver production to include...

... facilitated republican politics by navigating legal categories such as responsibility and authorship that were defined by liberal law yet under debate and unevenly enforced. Focusing on the production, dissemination, and fallout over a controversial 1840 promonarchist pamphlet written by the Yucatecan senator...

... such were able to change market conditions and make specific demands regarding the quality of imported products intended for their consumption. By so doing, the article questions the premise that because of their poverty Colombian popular classes were always drawn to buying cheaper imported goods and...

... with interest groups to ensure continued production and protect particular men from recruitment, and relying on violence to enforce a documentary regime. Drawing on new archival sources, most importantly the testimony from wartime military justice proceedings, the article concludes that the oligarchic...

... to regulate and discipline Tehuantepec, hoping to create a more orderly, productive, and beautiful urban space. Through her influence on Tehuano dress and local fiestas, she attempted to bring local customs into line with the ideals of Porfirian modernization and mestizo identity. Her attention to...

... century a heterogeneous popular economy broke the monopoly over production once held by Spanish mine- and millowners. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Silver, which underwent continuous exchange between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, can be said to have “been present at the birth...

... periodization of drugs to uncover and analyze their complex and often-surprising roles. Rather than fetishize drugs, the essay maintains that they can be productively woven into the largest contexts and problems of Latin American history. After analyzing three methodological concerns of drug history — issues of...

... productive workers and idealized citizens for the new Paraguay envisioned by the military regime. Corporate ideas regarding gender and appropriate sexuality for male workers formed a key pillar in such initiatives. However, as the infrastructure project moved along its construction schedule and toward...

... production. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 In 1891, 237 men, women, and children from the Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific arrived at a coffee plantation in southern Mexico. The British-owned finca San Juan las Chicharras, their new home, was precisely the type of enterprise that...

... productive dialogue, we reconstruct the processes whereby a Spanish and Christian moral order became locally meaningful and politically useful in indigenous communities far removed from Spanish administrative centers. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Between 1650 and 1727, indigenous judges in...

...Nara Milanich This article explores the relationship of domestic labor and social reproduction in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile, paying particular attention to the roles of children. Children figured as products of women's reproductive labors, but they were also themselves crucial...

...Oscar Chamosa In contrast to its South American neighbors, Argentina holds a reputation as a “white” country, a presumption reflected in the discourse of national elites, scholars, and tour guides alike. This article explores the idea that this purported whiteness was the product of an ideological...