...Daniela Spenser Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics. Edited by daniel nugent. Foreword by william c. roseberry. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 384 pp. Paper,$17.95; Close...

...Othĺn Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico. By betty bernice faust Foreword by betty j. meggers. Westport, Conn.:Bergin & Garvey, 1998. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures...

...David Scott Palmer Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980 . By Heilman Jaymie Patricia . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 254 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews...

...Gabriela Soto Laveaga Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000 . By Trevizo Dolores . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 245 pp. Cloth , $64.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke...

... urban and rural peoples of the Valley of Mexico whom archaeologists have found to be more variable in economic orientation and cultural practices than written sources show. Book Reviews / General and Sources 529 The work of Elizabeth Brumfield and Michael E...

... urban and rural peoples of the Valley of Mexico whom archaeologists have found to be more variable in economic orientation and cultural practices than written sources show. Book Reviews / General and Sources 529 The work of Elizabeth Brumfield and Michael E...

... agriculture, Havana’s expanding economy preceded and fueled the development of its hinterland. The rural economy stimulated by new urban capital and markets was heteroge- neous, including cattle ranches and banana and cassava farms worked by European laborers, Indians, free people of African descent...

...Mark Wasserman El jefe político: Un dominio negociado en el mundo rural del Estado de México, 1856–1911 . By Falcón Romana . Mexico City : El Colegio de México / El Colegio de Michoacán / CIESAS , 2015 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. 744 pp. Paper...

...Felipe Arturo Ávila Espinosa Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Newman Elizabeth Terese . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 255 pp. Paper , $29.95...

...Joel Wolfe The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964. By cliff welch. University Park:Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 412 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Paper,$25.00...

...Jeffrey L. Gould; Aldo Lauria-Santiago 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 “They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage”: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929–1931 Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo Lauria-Santiago ¡Quien mandará aquí será el cambio...

...Carmen Ramos Escandon La scelta della terra: Studio di un insediamiento rurale del Movimento Sem Terra in Brasile. By luca fanelli. Torino, Italy: Silvio Zamorani, 2002. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Notes. 159 pp. Paper. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews General A...

...Javier F. Marion Desafíos al Orden: Política y sociedades rurales durante la Revolución de Independencia . Edited by Raúl Fradkin and Jorge Gelman. Rosario, Argentina : Prohistoria Ediciones , 2008 . Tables. Notes. 157 pp. Paper , $63.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press...

... focuses on struggles over land, and here Martínez Peláez develops his idea of a “mestizo agrarian block”: mixed bloods among Guatemala’s colonial rural poor, he proposes, found themselves excluded from access to land and forced into an impoverished life of labor on creole-­owned haciendas. But he...

...Lina Britto Abstract This essay, based in large part on local oral history, uncovers the lived experience of the rural and urban popular sectors who participated in the 1970s marijuana boom along the northernmost section of the Colombian Caribbean coast. In particular, the piece narrates how the...

..., suggest that these residents were inventing new roles for themselves and took pains to bring attention to their new social positions as property-owners (“solarero,” or owner of a solar), Spanish speakers, Catholics, and city dwellers (“criollo,” or born in the city rather than in a rural community). The...

... variety of landscapes such as river valleys, roadways, and forests, the latter of which received special attention. The twin goals of rationalizing resource use and reconfiguring rural people’s relationship with the land, we argue, was a defining characteristic of Cardenismo and its attempt to harness...

..., regional authorities, urban-based ruling classes, and rural residents in the mountains interacted with the European mountaineer-scientists during and after their expeditions. Most Peruvian groups initially welcomed the foreign mountaineer-scientists, using their activities to pursue their own agendas...