... wife's dowry” (p. 5), all weave in and out of the narrative, showing that science was eminently sociable. Many politicians, soldiers, socialites, and others become similarly intertwined in the networks of these men. Demonstrating that Chile was as primed to receive Darwin as he was eager to arrive, she...

...Brian Bockelman Civility and Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829 – 1862 . By De Quirós Pilar González Bernaldo . UCLA Latin American Studies, 88 . Los Angeles : UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California , 2006...

... to closely monitor areas of youth sociability. Promoted by a diverse team of new experts and in cooperation with US antidrug agencies, the campaign helped create a link between youth, deviance, and subversion, which supposedly corroded the national body. Drugs were defined in repressive terms before...

... both the political sociability of working-class families and their language of rights. Drawing on a variety of sources, such as trade-union journals, the left-wing press, major national newspapers, company documents, official records, and memoirs of labor militants, the essay contends that the great...

... University Press 1998 In this book, drawn from his doctoral dissertation for the Université de Paris I, Chilean author Cristián Gazmuri offers a historical account of Chile’s new political culture and sociability of the mid-nineteenth century. In it Gazmuri, a student of innovative French historian...

... process of negotiations. At the heart of the conception of this singular political culture is the notion of the public sphere as a place for the constitution of rights and citizenship. However, the notion of public sphere emerges to describe the spaces of bourgeois sociability of an economic...

... challenge, a flash of steel: these are the central motifs of this pioneering study of male sociability in modernizing Buenos Aires. Waxing nostalgia for a vanished “mythology of knives” and duels, Jorge Luis Borges once wrote, “a song of heroism has been lost in sordid police reports.” Digging deep...

... and cultural diversity or the universality of human sociability. But this is not an abstract discussion. In line with one of the most valuable aspects of the anthropological tradition, the contributors consider this question with reference to ethnographic materials, collected in this case in different parts...

... of the new mansions (chapter 2); educational institutions and gendered social expectations (chapter 3); and the new codes, rituals, and spaces of sociability of Buenos Aires’s elite (chapters 4 and 5). By making frequent comparisons with analyses of other Latin American cases and the United States, Losada...

... of historiography on nineteenth-century Argentine and Chilean political and cultural history, the book directly engages works by scholars such as Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós and Hilda Sabato on associational spaces and sociabilities and their role in the political culture of the emerging republican liberal...

..., transcended the purely economic. Carina Frid demonstrates how Piedmontese merchants in southern Santa Fe province during the late nineteenth century provided not only goods, credit, and market information to Italian farmers and rural laborers but also spaces for ethnic sociability (the rural general stores...

..., immigration, daily life and sociability, workers and the labor movement, provincial cities, and the two political parties that dominated in the period, the Radicals and the Conservatives. Just as the rule of Juan Manuel de Rosas and the struggle for national consolidation ran as a leitmotif through the essays...

.... Based on the strong foundation of her previous work on forms of sociability in Buenos Aires, Gayol shows the role played by honor in codifying social difference but also providing a center of gravity for elite social life. Yet her study goes beyond sociability and provides a new lens to understand...

..., working rules, values, and “imaginaires,” now make up a vast field of study that one may call “forms of sociability” and which has acquired more and more importance in recent European historiography. When studying these forms of sociability, I made a distinction between traditional actors and modern...

... Meglio s discussion of political actors learning process during the British invasions from 1806 to the 1810s. Jeffrey Shumway and Brian Bockelman assess the elites and their new forms of sociability in Buenos Aires. Shumway focuses on Mariquita Sa´nchez s tertulias as a new form of sociability...

... the elites and their new forms of sociability in Buenos Aires. Shumway focuses on Mariquita Sa´nchez s tertulias as a new form of sociability that characterized the 1810s and 1820s, while Bockelman de es the notion of a monolithic oligarchy in the 1880s conservative regime. The contributions as a whole...

... The journal is happy to congratulate Emily Wakild as the winner of HAHR 's inaugural book review prize, for her review of The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile by Patience A. Schell, published in Hispanic American Historical Review vol. 94, no. 2. The prize...

..., these subjects believe that the Mexican is happy, hospitable, clean, sociable, and optimistic in that order (p. 92). “Courteous” ranks twentieth, and “proud” is surprisingly twenty-third. Two contradictory traits—self-confidence and lack of self-confidence—rank at the bottom of those characteristics underscored...

... on cooperative group efforts. Third, the Indians enjoyed continuous sociability based on living together in limited residential areas. They were reluctant to move to ranges with their cattle. During the last five years much progress has been made on the human side of the cattle industry at San Carlos. The author...

... about culture and the patria’s economic relations with the outside world. Rinke shows, for instance, how cultural openness and a globalizing culture industry brought new forms of sociability and entertainment for those Chileans who could afford a movie ticket. Many moviegoers were members...