...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...

...Raymond Craib Ránquil was not an exceptional case of rural violence. Neither the uprising nor the repression was unprecedented, and Klubock's work joins others that expose the myth of Chilean exceptionalism—that Chile's history is characterized by political stability and social peace interrupted...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Joel Wolfe The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964 . By Welch Cliff . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1999 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxi , 412 pp. Cloth...

...Geoff Burrows Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture . By Carmelo Esterrich . Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2018 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 207 pp...

...César N. Caviedes In this sense, the articulation of the rural landscape with its urban correlative is absent, and the whole work takes on the form of a collection of individual links that never become a chain. The author had, indeed, a great opportunity to produce an interpretive work...

...Stephen Webre Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 . By Mccreery David . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1994 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . x, 450 pp. Cloth. $49.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 During the approximately...

... was “a basic and essential component of socioeconomic structure [and not] . . . a reaction to economic difficulty or other problems.” Urban areas, moreover, did not stimulate rural change but “acted as a kind of safety valve” that “enabled village communities to maintain their traditional modes of behavior...

... bites off a huge variety of heady themes, surrounding his topic with a labor of recent reading and reflection on developments following the Salinas regime’s dismantling of Mexican corporatist-era rural institutions and society. The book’s glaring hole, however—its lack of substantive new fieldwork...

..., such as immigration, urban expansion, and external trade dynamics. The 18-chapter volume edited by Wayne Cornelius and David Myhre, The Transformation of Rural Mexico , the product of the multiyear Ejido Reform Research Project of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego...

..., for example, that while riots and revolts brought rural people together around shared grievances and identities, “villagers and peons were rarely amalgamated into durable alliances. Much less did they constitute a campesino class that struggled against landowners” (p. 246). And while these lower groups...

...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...

...Daniela Spenser Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics . Edited by Nugent Daniel . Foreword by William C. Roseberry . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham : Duke University Press , 1998 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 384...

...Othín Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico . By Faust Betty Bernice . Foreword by Meggers Betty J. . Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...Paul Vanderwood The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico . By Dwyer John J. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 387 pp. Cloth , $89.95...

...Susan Schroeder Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730 – 1850 . By Kanter Deborah E. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2008 . Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xii , 151 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2010...

... constitutional obligations. Jaramillo’s initial labor organizing at the mill grew to include broader efforts for political change that would favor peasants and rural workers in general. When he could find no official candidate with the same platform, he ran for governor himself. His activism resulted in several...

...Paul Gootenberg The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia . By Sanabria Harry . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 277 pp. Cloth , $47.50 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press 1998...