... colonial aristocracy of Trujillo. The relatively few titled families making up the highest echelons of the city’s and region’s society, renovated themselves in the late colonial period through ties to miners, merchants and obraje owners, and sustained their power through positions and influence in church...

..., and other highly respected historians. However, he gives the regional historical specialist food for thought and a creative methodology that should provoke future discussion of scale of analysis, quantitative techniques, and the use of historical data. One of Ibarra’s general conclusions...

...: The Domestic Origins of the First World War Revisited,” Past and Present , no. 142 (1994): 156. 95 Evan S. Lieberman, Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), 4. 94 See Bennett D. Baack and Edward John Ray, “Special...

... of the ambitious nature of his thesis, however, Reeves relies on a relatively narrow, though carefully researched, demographic and geographic area: the Mam region of San Juan Ostuncalco in the western highlands outside Quezaltenango. Here he makes a compelling and persuasive case, based on extensive work and often...

...Raymond B. Craib Procesos rurales e historia regional (sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz) . Edited by Chenaut Victoria . Mexico City : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolgía Social , 1996 . Paper. Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999...

...Cindy Forster Entre comunidad y nacion: La historia de Guatemala revisitada desde lo local y lo regional . Edited by Piel Jean and Little-Siebold Todd . Antigua : Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica / South Woodstock, VT : Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies , 1999...

...Donald F. Stevens Región e historia en México (1700–1850): métodos de análisis regional . Compiled by Herrero Pedro Pérez . Mexico City : Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora , 1991 . Graphs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 263 pp. Copyright 1993 by Duke...

...Alan Knight Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History 1910-1925 . Edited by Benjamin Thomas and Wasserman Mark . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1990 . Chronology. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Appendix. Index. x , 390 pp. Paper...

...Magnus Mörner Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development . By Carroll Patrick J. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1991 . Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index . xv , 240 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992...

...Thomas Benjamin Land, Labor, and Capital in Modern Yucatán: Essays in Regional History and Political Economy . Edited by Brannon Jeffery T. and Joseph Gilbert M. . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 1991 . Chronology. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index...

... a sophisticated sociological analysis. Various kinds of duality are expressed during the ritual, among them the wild against human society, church-sanctioned interests against those of local cultures, and agricultural regions against those with pastoral interests. The book ends with shorter descriptions...

...John Monaghan La integración social de la Chontalpa: un análisis regional en el trópico mexicano . By Fernández Pedro Arrieta . Santa Fe, Mexico : Universidad Iberoamericana , 1994 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 230 pp. Paper . Copyright 1995 by Duke University...

... and habits of behavior. Identification with village or locality, corporate or peer group, region or profession clearly predominated as factors of mobilization, even during the development of party identifications into the mid-nineteenth century. 2 In addition, personal networks of power, or caciquismo...

...Richard V. Salisbury Crisis in Central America: Regional Dynamics and United States Foreign Policy in the 1980s . Edited by Hamilton Nora . Boulder : Westview Press , 1988 . Maps. Notes. Tables. Index . Pp. 272 . Cloth . $32.50 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

...Steven E. Sanderson Natural Resources and Economic Development in Central America: A Regional Environmental Profile . By Leonard H. Jeffrey . New Brunswick : Transaction Books , 1987 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii, 279 . Cloth . $29.95...

...George I. Blanksten The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940 . By Rodríguez Linda Alexander . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1985 . Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 281...

...Carmen Diana Deere Economía de la comunidad campesina: Aproximación regional . By Gonzales de Olarte Efraín . Lima : Instituto de Estudios Peruanos , 1984 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography . Pp. 260 . Paper. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

... through the jargon is the inadequate integration of important data from the tables and figures (75 in all). Figures 4.5 and 4.6, for example, provide fascinating maps of urban development and regional policy, but with symbols and keys that are never explained (pp. 101, 103). Most historians...

... only 15 percent of indigenous labor. Bolivia’s restrictions on trade disrupted the haciendas’ commercial ties to Potosí. Meanwhile, to pay tribute, Indians continued producing for the regional economy. Tribute constituted two-thirds of Cuzco’s fiscal income but less than one-fifth of national revenue...

...Christopher Dunn With rich documentary material from press reports, letters, internal memos, and popular songs, Ickes's book fills a major gap in the historiography of regional identity in Bahia and has much to offer to historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and scholars...