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...Margaret Chowning Why did Bishop San Miguel find it attractive, or expedient, to go against this convent’s customs and constitution, not only dismantling the very reform that less than two decades earlier had been pressed upon the nuns of the viceroyalty by a strong alliance of church and state...

...Timothy J. Henderson The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940 . By Sherman John W. . Westport, Conn .: Praeger , 1997 . Notes. Bibliography. Index, xxii, 154 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The regime of President...

...Thomas C. Wright Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside: From the Pre-Land Reform Period to the Democratic Transition . Edited by Kay Cristóbal and Silva Patricio . Amsterdam : CEDLA , 1992 . Graphs. Tables. Notes. Glossaries. Bibliography. Index . 326 pp...

... Meyers, John Martz, and Diego Abente (as well as other Latin American specialists), which provide critical interpretations of the events in Venezuela by persons not directly affected by the reform measures. Because 1992 political events in Venezuela drastically altered the political and economic reforms...

... with the stabilization programs, the adoption of free trade, privatization, and tax reforms, all from the perspective of their impact on government finances. Finally, these volumes pay virtually no attention at all to the role of the highly industrialized nations in bringing about the debt crisis, which, beginning...

... in the final years of the seventeenth century and up to around 1720. This crisis conditioned early Bourbon experience of the mercury industry in Peru, and several of its features influenced royal policy throughout the following three decades. The article continues with an outline of the administrative reforms...

...Peter F. Klarén Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991 . By Seligmann Linda J. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1995 . Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index, x, 268 pp. Cloth , $39.50 . Paper , $15.95...

...-1871: Liberalism Before Liberal Reform . By Gudmundson Lowell and Lindo-Fuentes Héctor . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1995 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. viii, 155 pp. Paper . $19.95 . ...

...Antonio Rafael De La Cova Cuba’s Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies . By Mesa-Lago Carmelo and Pérez-López Jorge . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2005 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 223 pp...

...Stephen Webre Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 . By Handy Jim . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1994 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 272 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $15.95...

...Thomas Cohen De Groot concludes that many elements of the ultramontane project anticipated the “emancipatory” politics of the modern Brazilian church, and, perhaps more important, that the ultramontane reformers secured the role for the church in politics that subsequent generations...

...Jerry R. Ladman Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino . By Thiesenhusen William C. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1995 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 226 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Paper, 19.95 . San Juan Tezontla: lucha por el agua...

... In 1916, new regulations for conscripts included stricter rules for living off base. 43 Reformers wanted to curb off-base living because it was “one of the principal problems that undermines discipline and principally instruction.” 44 Conscription advocates argued that a national draft would end...

...Kirk S. Bowman Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s . By Yashar Deborah J. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1997 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 319 pp. Cloth , $49.50 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright...

...Carlos A. Parodi Democracy, Markets, and Structural Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico . Edited by Smith William C. , Acuña Carlos H. , and Gamarra Eduardo A. . Coral Gables : North-South Center, University of Miami , 1994 . Tables...

... of independence. By 1815, all effective cohesion of the corpsmen had dissolved and they faded into history. The corps did not come to the borderlands until 1764, when José de Gálvez was trying to effect his reforms. Limited by the ordinance of 1768 to only 150 men, it later expanded to some 200. Several...

...Shepard L. Forman U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World Peasant: Land Reform in Asia and Latin America . By Olson Gary L. . New York , 1974 . Praeger Publishers . Tables . Pp. x , 153 . Cloth . $14.00 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 This short...

...Donald B. Cooper The Royal College of San Carlos: Surgery and Spanish Medical Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century . By Burke Michael E. . Foreword by Lanning John Tate . Durham , 1977 . Duke University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 215 . Cloth. $10.75...

...Liisa North The Politics of Reform in Peru: The Aprista and Other Mass Parties of Latin America . By Hilliker Grant . Baltimore, Maryland , 1971 . Johns Hopkins Press . Tables. Map. Graphs. Appendices. Index . Pp. xv , 201 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1972 by Duke University...

...Clara E. Lida Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain. Origins of the Civil War . By Malefakis Edward E. . New Haven , 1970 . Yale University Press . Maps. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 469 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1972 by Duke University...