...Daniela Spenser The aim of President Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940 – 46) was to dismantle or at least to neutralize the radicalism of the previous regime. In Oaxaca this meant to weaken the cardenista caciques by imposing an unknown entity as governor. The result was a disaster that led...

...Daniela Spenser The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900 – 1938 . By Santiago Myrna I. . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii...

...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...

...Daniela Spenser Meyer chronicles the political conservatism and racialist mindset that made both the Foreign Office in London and its representatives in Mexico blind to the social and political changes effected by the Revolution—occasionally even against the better judgments of the British...

...Daniela Spenser The Mexican Spy Company: United States Covert Operations in Mexico, 1845-1848 . By Caruso Brooke A. . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company , 1991 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 175 pp. Cloth . $28.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...

...Daniela Spenser Buchenau corroborates his thesis by imaginatively reading his sources and carefully crafting his arguments. It is safe to say that the book will be profitably read by scholars in several fields: in political history, in international relations, and, of course, in modern Mexican...

...Daniela Spenser Latin America’s Cold War . By Brands Hal . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Notes. Index. 385 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Hal Brands’s goal in reconstructing the history of Latin America’s Cold War...

...Daniela Spenser Resistencia y utopía. Memorial de agravios y crónica de revueltas y profecías acaecidas en la Provincia de Chiapas durante los últimos quinientos años de su historia . By García de León Antonio . Two vols. Mexico City : Editorial ERA , 1985 . Photographs. Maps...

...Daniela Spenser [email protected] La Guerra Fría latinoamericana y sus historiografías . Edited by Vanni Pettinà . Estudios de Historia Latinoamericana: AHILA . Madrid : Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos / UAM Ediciones , 2023 . Notes. 257 pp...

...Daniela Spenser Militantes, intelectuales y revolucionarios: Ensayos sobre marxismo e izquierda en América Latina . Edited by Aguirre Carlos . Serie Historia y Ciencias Sociales . Raleigh, NC : Editorial A Contracorriente , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. 494 pp. Paper , $26.00...

...Steve Ellner Stumbling Its Way through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International . By Spenser Daniela . Translated by Gellert Peter . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2011 . Photographs. Notes. Index. ix, 205 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2014 by Duke...

...Tony Wood Spenser provides a highly readable portrait of Lombardo Toledano, deftly navigating the complexities of Mexican domestic politics and global ideological crosscurrents. She is remarkably balanced, giving us insights into her subject's worldview while not hesitating to present him...

...Eric Paul Roorda Spenser’s book belongs to a new series, edited by Gilbert Joseph and Emily Rosen-berg, which has the stated goal of encouraging multiarchival approaches. The series seeks to examine the complex ways that power works across international borders and across different cultural...

... chapter on Central America. In linking women’s activism, the expanding market economy, and cold-war military recruitment, she effectively complements previous scholarship on Guatemala and the other chapters herein. Daniela Spenser, Adolfo Gilly, and Piero Gleijeses shift to Cuba and its deep...

...Gregory Weeks In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War . Edited by Joseph Gilbert M. and Spenser Daniela . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . ix , 440 pp. Cloth , $99.95 . Paper...

... in Espita in 1921, however, the plantation system failed, largely because of a labor shortage. Finally, Daniela Spenser examines the urban labor movement in revolutionary Yucatán and considers the curious development of labor opposition to Felipe Carrillo Puerto’s socialist government. The explanation...

... of a Coffee Economy in Chiapas, Daniela Spenser; La Sierra de Jacala: Ranchos and Rancheros in Northern Hidalgo, Frans J. Schryer; Sonora: Indians and Immigrants on a Developing Frontier, Evelyn Hu-DeHart; Yucatán: Violence and Social Control on Henequen Plantations, Allen Wells; La Comarca Lagunera; Work...

... LaFrance; Soconusco: The Formation of a Coffee Economy in Chiapas, Daniela Spenser; La Sierra de Jacala: Ranchos and Rancheros in Northern Hidalgo, Frans J. Schryer; Sonora: Indians and Immigrants on a Developing Frontier, Evelyn Hu-DeHart; Yucatán: Violence and Social Control on Henequen Plantations...

... of a field that Gilbert Joseph and Daniela Spenser had to bring “in from the cold” just over a decade ago. From Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek's inspiring volume Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War to Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse's...

... Daniela Spenser. A Revolution in Movement also provides a useful jumping-off point for future discussions of race, gender, and choreography in Mexico. Snow mentions African American dancers Katherine Dunham and Xavier Francis, who performed and taught in Mexico. Their appearances in the historical...