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...David Sowell This is a fine work that should stand the test of time. Segovia writes clearly, with literary punctuations that add texture to the military account. The appendix on rebel and royalist actors is especially valuable. One wishes, perhaps, for another chapter that traces Morillo's...

...David Sowell Predictably, the society’s first venture during the Obando administration consisted of a petition to the congress in favor of increased tariff rates. While no longer in control of the executive branch of government, Gólgotas still controlled the congress, and the petition was denied...

...David Sowell El empresariado colombiano: Una perspectiva histórica . By de Guevara Carlos Dávila L. . Bogotá : Pontificia Universidad Javeriana , 1986 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 151 . Paper. Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara seeks...

...David Sowell Niños trabajadores y vida cotidiana en Medellín, 1900–1930 . By Medellín Carlos Eduardo García Londoño. . Editorial Universidad de Antioquia , 1999 . Photographs. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . xx , 108 pp. Paper . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press...

...David Sowell From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 . By Palmer Steven . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Paper...

...David Sowell Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 T he advent of independence forced leaders of Latin American governments to articulate programs of economic development at a time when liberalism held a powerful ideological influence throughout the Western world. As they undertook...

...David Sowell Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America . By Collier David and Ruth Collier Berins . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1991 . Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Indexes...

...David Sowell Yucatecan scholars will be comfortable with the broad sweep of history in Sugarcane and Rum . Others will encounter a narrative that illustrates Yucatán's exceptional experience within the Caribbean. We can all empathize with the difficulties of conducting microhistory in regions...

...David Sowell Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo . By Jennifer Koshatka Seman . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 222 pp. Paper, $29.95 . Copyright © 2022...

...David Sowell The Problem of Order in Changing Societies: Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, 1750-1940 . Edited by Johnson Lyman L. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1990 . Tables. Graphs. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Index . xx , 161 pp...

...David Sowell Sons of the Machine: Case Studies of Social Change in the Workplace . By Savage Charles H. Jr. and Lombard George F. F. . Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press , 1986 . Figures. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. References. Glossary. Index . Pp. xvi , 313 . Cloth...

...David Sowell Índice de prensa colombiana, 1840-1890: Periódicos existentes en la Biblioteca Central . Prepared by Álvarez Jesús and María Teresa Uribe de H. Medellín : Universidad de Antioquia , 1984 . Illustrations. Indexes . Pp. vii , 240 . Paper. Copyright 1987 by Duke...

...David Sowell Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847 – 1924 . By McCrea Heather . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 288 pp. Paper , $27.95...

...David Sowell Curar, sanar y educar: Enfermedad y sociedad en México, siglos XIX y XX . Edited by Agostoni Claudia . Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / Puebla : Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix...

...David Sowell Malavissi does a fine job situating this project within early Costa Rican history. The social marginality of her argument, however, appears to be quite sound. Still, one is left wondering that since no one was sure of whether a person had leprosy, syphilis, or some other skin...

...Michele McArdle Stephens Sowell does an excellent job of weaving together various components of the medical history of Yucatán. Whether addressing the history of epidemic diseases, the racialized hierarchy of medical practitioners, or the imposition of the state via new medical technology...

...Jane M. Rausch Two additional strengths of the book deserve mention. First, in sketching the background for his subject, Sowell provides a stimulating synthesis of recent literature on nineteenth-century Colombian political history, and in the process offers judicious opinions on such hoary...

...Derek Williams The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes . By Sowell David . Latin American Silhouettes . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 2001 . Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix , 171 pp...

... us for doing so, but instead complained that in our book “ideological advocacy sometimes masquerades as balanced scholarship.” Cortés then takes issue with us for putting forward the “warmed-over, unconvincing arguments of conservative economist Thomas Sowell. ” I regard myself as a conservative...

... of natives did accept vaccination. In 1879, however, with the so-called conquest of the desert, smallpox became an ally in the extermination of the native population, justified through social Darwinist arguments about the Indians’ inherent unfitness and lack of resistance to the disease. David Sowell’s...