...Marie Francois Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950 . By López-Alonso Moramay . Social Science History . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 276 pp. Cloth...

... violence but then quickly rebounded. Second, did the post-independence judicial system effectively integrate liberal legislative reforms into courtroom standards and practices? The study shows that, while republican court reform failed in some measures, it also succeeded in the following four areas: The...

... to the new standards that they embraced, whether slightly or wholeheartedly. By identifying and understanding the idiosyncratic language they used to identify themselves (as opposed to labels such as “Indian” placed upon them by outsiders), the article approaches the possibility of gaining access to...

... alphabetic literacy in Quechua. The article argues that a standardized written form of Quechua developed by the church was in fact widely used among the indigenous elite, but that it never became an important medium of internal administrative record keeping in indigenous communities, as did occur with...

...Alejandra Irigoin; Regina Grafe Social scientists use the history of Spain and her empire as a standard against which they establish the relatively superior efficiency of Anglo-Saxon institutions. This historical “experiment” underpins the core argument of new institutional economic history. This...

...Paul Ross In the late nineteenth century, Mexico's Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease reporting...

... large number of shared questions, presented in the same order, allow the versions to be treated as variants of a single text, which I here call the “Little Doctrine.” That this seventeenth-century text is a standard component of pictographic catechisms calls into question the conventional placement of...

... trapiches . The article demonstrates how k'ajchas and trapiches contested the property rights of the traditional Spanish mine- and millowners in Potosí. I also highlight the key role of women in refining and trading ores, which challenges standard gender assumptions about mining labor. By the eighteenth...

.... Nor did a major 1922 contract with the New Jersey–based Standard Oil Company lead to large-scale production, since Standard Oil was looking to monopolize reserves, not to produce. The most novel and provocative argument comes in chapter 3: that the devastating war between Bolivia and Paraguay...

.... craib is assistant professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of “Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain,” Latin American Research Review 35, no. 1 (2000) and “Standard Plots and Rural Resistance,” in The Mexico Reader, ed. Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J...

.... The application process itself ensured that only institutions with some degree of stability and administrative capacity would come under consideration. The competitive process also enabled the program to promote compliance with contemporary technical standards. Modest awards...

... Peronism in Argentina,” which explores the controversies associated with the standard of living, consumer aspirations, and populism from the 1930s to the 1960s. federico finchelstein is Assistant Professor of History at The New School. He is the author of Fascismo, liturgia e imaginario: El mito...

... Ameri- can Franciscan History, 2010 Richard Greenleaf maintained very high standards for himself. His sem- inars were legendary for their deep content, reflecting hours of preparation. He demanded these same high standards of his students. Dr. Greenleaf made certain that his graduate students...

... stabilized as Candomblé. It has frequently been argued that Candomblé's ritual and organizational template came from the Yoruba and, once established, was mimicked by Brazil's other ethnoritual nations. Against this argument, Parés demonstrates that the Jeje nation of Brazil was first to standardize the...

... in 1531 is now available in a revised edition. As well as showing definitively that the standard account of the apparition was an invention of the mid-seventeenth century, Poole also makes a number of other important claims. Despite Bernardino de Sahagún's statement that the Virgin of Tepeyac was...

... is simply an economic system. —Fernand Braudel In 1904 Finance Minister José I. Limantour ordered a monetary census in preparation for Mexico’s conversion to the gold standard. In it, Porfirian bean counters found only one...

... envy, that Potash was able to elicit interviews from major figures in the military regimes who would never allow them such access. Whatever the case, Potash produced three extraordinary volumes that set the standard for any subsequent treatment of the subject. To the benefit of future historians...

..., 1936); and Charles Kepner and Jay Soothill, The Banana Empire: A Case Study of Economic Imperialism (New York: Russell and Russell, 1967 [1936 3. See Thomas L. Karnes, Tropical Enterprise: The Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Latin America...

... conditions especially difficult for the terrazgueros (renters). During the reforma agraria, granting ejidos raised living standards in those communities where hacienda influence had been dominant. According to Cook, the concept of civility or citizenship emphasized nativity, kinship, and...

... leveling space of la patria offered women, Pérez finds in the discourse of 1890s independentistas the seed of an all-or-nothing standard for national inclusion. This idea that national acceptability represented a zero-sum game only reemerged with as much fury when Fidel Castro championed it in the post...