...Izumi Shimada The Rural Foundation for Urbanism: Economic and Stylistic Interaction between Rural and Urban Communities in Eighth-Century Peru . By Isbell William Harris . Urbana , 1977 . University of Illinois Press . Maps. Illustrations. Diagrams. Figures. Cloth . $12.50...

...Dwight B. Heath The Diffusion of Power: Rural Elites in a Bolivian Province . By Havet José . Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press , 1985 . Notes. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 156 . Paper. $18.00 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press...

... as to the causes and significance of the Thupa Amaro 1 rebellion that exploded on the colonial landscape of rural Cuzco in 1780 and quickly spread through much of the southern Andes. This interest was spurred by the Peruvian military government’s use of Thupa Amaro as a symbol of its commitment to social change...

...José Cuello Rural Society in Colonial Morelos . By Martin Cheryl English . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1985 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography . Pp. x , 248 . Cloth. Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 This is a welcome...

...Cheryl E. Martin Themes in Rural History of the Western World . Edited by Herr Richard . Henry A. Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural Studies . Ames : Iowa State University Press , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Index , xiv , 277 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright...

...Louis A. Pérez, Jr. El bandolerismo en Cuba, 1800-1933: presencia canaria y protesta rural . Volumes 1 and 2 . By De Paz Sánchez Manuel , Fernández José Fernández , and Novegil Nelson López . Santa Cruz de Tenerife : Litografía Romero . Paper . Volume 1 , 1993...

... for a much-expanded Indian population (the Guairá missions of the Paranapané River area, for instance, had more than one hundred thousand inhabitants). Carbonell reminds us that the Indians’ hopes tapered well with the Jesuits’ rural development strategies. In general, we have seen much of this story...

... interpretation of Bolivian rural society. This book will be useful primarily to Andeanists and generally to Latin Americanists interested in demography. The period from 1786 to 1882 was one of significant change in Bolivia, but Klein does not adequately relate that change to rural society in La Paz. He...

...Kendall W. Brown En pos del tributo: burocracia estatal, elite regional, y comunidades indígenas en el Cusco rural, 1826-1854 . By Ruíz Víctor Peralta . Archivos de Historia Andina, 13 . Cuzco : Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de Las Casas” , 1991 . Graph. Tables...

... for export earnings. Harris G. Warren, the dean of Paraguayan historical studies in North America, stated only a few years ago that very little attention had been given to the study of rural Paraguay, even though one must become acquainted with the countryside to understand fully this nation’s people...

...Richard Alan White El Paraguay rural entre 1869 y 1913 . By Herken Krauer Juan Carlos . Asunción : Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociológicos , 1984 . Tables. Notes. Figures. Maps. Plates. Bibliography . Pp. 224 . Paper. Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987...

...Douglas Butterworth Anthropological Perspectives on Rural Mexico . By Hewitt de Alcántara Cynthia . Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1984 . Notes. Index . Pp. xiv , 224 . Cloth. $24.95 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 This is not an easy book to read...

...Steve J. Stern Estructura agraria y vida rural en una región andina: Ollantaytambo entre los siglos xvi y xix . By Glave Luis Miguel and Remy María Isabel . Cuzco : Centro de Estudios Rurales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas , 1983 . Maps. Notes. Tables. Illustrations. Figures...

...David Scott Palmer Historia rural del Perú . By Guido Delran C . Cuzco : Centro de Estudios Rurales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas” , 1981 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Illustrations . Pp. 138 . Paper. Copyright 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 This slender volume is one...

... regions during the late eighteenth century. 7 Obviously, assuming the validity of the interpretation of the two sets of data, a second major shift of the residence of the rural work force took place during the intervening period and haciendas came to rely more on towndwellers for manpower; but when...

... Britain and part of the meat, as jerky, to Brazil and Cuba. There was a shifting rural population that worked on the large estates and lived largely on the parts of beef carcasses that could not be marketed abroad. Often the landowners were also the caudillos of the Blanco or Colorado political parties...

...Douglas Butterworth Evolución de una sociedad rural . By Lomnitz Claudio . Mexico City : Fondo de Cultura Económica , 1982 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Epilog. Bibliography . Pp. 315 . Paper . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 This is a study of power and politics...

...William C. Thiesenhusen Agrarian Reform and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Peru . By Alberts Tom . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xiv , 306 . Paper. $24.00 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Before it grows more...

...Oscar J. Martinez Across the Border: Rural Development in Mexico and Recent Migration to the United States . By Cross Harry E. and Sandos James A. . Berkeley : Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley , 1981 . Paper . Copyright 1983 by Duke...