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... received little study. A Peruvian who immigrated to Lower California in 1849 did much to document the historical vicissitudes of this relatively unresearched portion of Mexico. A lawyer by profession and at various times a journalist, teacher, judge, and politician, Manuel C. Rojo felt the need...

...M. M. Knight Highlights in the Debates in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies Relative to the Abandonment of Santo Domingo . Edited by Yuengling David G. . ( Washington, D. C. : Murray & Heister , 1941 . Pp. xi , 181 . $1.50 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Roscoe R. Hill Continuation of the White Book. Controversy between Guatemala and Great Britain, relative to the Convention of 1859, on Territorial Matters . First Series VIII. Bordering territories of the captaincies general of Guatemala and Yucatan during the colonial period; the Anglo...

... teaching, and the extent of prominent letrado relatives serving audiencias, chancellories, and councils. By 1808 these differences had largely disappeared and a much more homogenous corps of ministers served on the tribunals. The changes in background facilitated the incorporation into the Spanish courts...

...Benjamin Bryce Abstract This article examines the history of South Asian immigration to Argentina before the First World War. The arrival of a relatively small group of Sikh laborers in 1912, alongside other Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the preceding decade, sparked a huge reaction from...

...Alejandra Irigoin; Regina Grafe Abstract Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical “experiment” underpins the core argument of new institutional economic...

... and the maintenance of relative political autonomy until the 1870s. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 A few months before he died in a working-class neighborhood of Mendoza, Argentina, Sixto Waldino Jofré ceremoniously gave me photocopies of a document he called “The Memoir.” It was a family...

... which different actors and elements played various yet entangled roles. As perceptions of Ushuaia were informed by one's status and form of confinement or relative freedom, we see divergent as well as overlapping understandings of the region rather than a monolithic landscape at “The End of the World...

.... Second, industrialists enjoy a significant degree of relative autonomy from the Mexican state. Third, industrialists have significant influence in the formulation and implementation of government economic policy. The first part of the book informs us that, relative to the rest of Latin America...

... governments to influence relative prices and, intermittently, to halt inflation. Villanueva elaborates on what is by now a familiar “structuralist” explanation of Argentine inflation. Industrialization generates increased urban demand for food, which the relative short- and long-term inelasticity...

... relative prices. But the price level will remain unaltered. Only a growth in the money supply permits the price level to rise as relative prices change. Strictly speaking, population growth never causes inflation. As Milton Friedman once said, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon...