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...Woodfin L. Butte Judicial Review in Mexico: A Study of the Amparo Suit . By Baker Richard D. . Austin and London , 1971 . Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by the University of Texas Press . Latin American Monographs, 22 . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 304...

... in Angola before her enslavement. This article reconstructs Paula and her descendants' multigenerational legal battle and reveals that their struggle for freedom was, in large part, a struggle against archives. I examine a unique aspect of the freedom suit: witness testimony from Paula's former kin...

..., they often overlook a fundamental aspect of this migration: approximately one-third of those who arrived to Argentina by 1909 were under the age of 22. They were, therefore, legal minors. Evidence from 300 suits filed in Buenos Aires civil tribunals indicates that these young people faced significant...

... was similar to that of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Department of Justice made no haste to begin suit against the coffee group,20 and it was not until May 18,1912, that the government took the first legal step. The United States district attorney in New York asked the court to prevent Herman Sielcken...

... claimed, Aviles beat her when she refused to help him steal, and accused her of sleeping with her own brother. Witnesses testified for both sides, but like so many other slander suits the case was dropped before the judge reached a verdict. One of thousands of such actions lodged, and presently...

... for an action when the action coincided with widely accepted norms consistent with the provisions of written law. While reviewing many episodes in Castilian history for their effects on monarchs’ behavior — for example, the comunero revolt in 1520 – 21 — he also uses the long duration of the suit to argue...

.... Prior to that time the Catholic Church approved only a limited form of separation. The work under review studies the practice of that form of “divorce” in the first half of the nineteenth century. An introductory analysis of the social meaning of the divorce cases precedes excerpts of nine legal suits...

... legalistic or gradual phase (pre- 1880) of abolitionist activism from the better- known immediatist or radical stage (1880- 88). In one of the book’s best- developed sections, she shows that the politicization of freedom suits prior to the 1871 Free Womb Law had a similar galvanizing effect on popular...

... beginning in 1794. Whether she was ultimately successful is not known, because the detailed expediente on which this work (a doctoral dissertation undertaken at Göteborg University) is based does not specify the outcome. It is even possible that María Chiquinquirá died before her civil suit— undertaken...

... suits in six regions: the two viceregal capitals of Mexico City and Lima, the High Court (Real Chancillería) in Valladolid (Spain), and the rural settings of Oaxaca (New Spain), Trujillo (Peru), and the Montes de Toledo region of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Part 2 examines more closely the kinds...

..., continued through the royal judicial system. Montúfar in turn made further appointments and opposed the chapter at every opportunity. In this fashion the conflict escalated. This judicial process, begun in July 1557, lasted until October 1559. 24 The suit hinged not on the prelate’s right to make...

.... That historians today are able to write in such detail on these topics bespeaks the enormous attention paid to private life by the church and the state in colonial Latin America. Manuals of confessions written to guide priests, divorce trials, petitions for legitimization of illegitimate children, suits opposing...

.... She manufactures quotations to suit her purposes, with no indication of their origins. Still, it is surprising how much stands up to critical scrutiny after three decades. She could have corrected small errors in this edition (Pascual Díaz was not Archbishop of Mexico during the Church strike...

... a Spanish American port experienced in Massachusetts and New York. Beatriz Carolina Pen a seeks to demonstrate that Jala s suit, one articulated through claims to freedom and family in Mexico, should be considered one of the earliest legal challenges to slavery in the English colonies. This publication...

... works on slavery in Ceará, local traditions in the Inhamuns record “that it was precisely the work of a vaqueiro to which the Negro was most suited” (p. 148). Another area where Chandler warns against hasty generalization is on the relative importance of agriculture and cattle raising. While cattle were...

... of Mexican culture appears in the persistent use of traje regional for community events over the decades. North American styles, however, prevail in photos that feature sailor-suited children, zoot-suited young men, and quinceañera debutantes in white formal gowns. The book includes local heroes...

... negotiations and constructions. A tropical music genre, the infinitely malleable cumbia seems to be particularly suited for the marginalized and stigmatized migrant and working classes as it responds to their dreams, aspirations, and ambitions to carve out a legitimate place in the societies...

... lawsuits of the eighteenth century concerning gañanía pointed to a royal cédula of June 4, 1687. 16 The text of the cédula itself has not been found, merely summaries of it presented in some of the legal suits. In these references, there are no justifications for the law given; indeed...

... Press 2005 As they did with other forms of cultural production, nineteenth-century Brazilian intellectuals called upon theater to be an expression of the national in the wake of independence from Portugal. After all, many claimed, theater was particularly well suited for cultivating moral...

... in the region that putting pants on a boy too soon would trigger his sexual urges and desire to get married. The discussion prompts several questions: Where did this belief come from? Did indigenous boys also manage to avoid wearing pants during the colonial period? Did the wearing of pants to suit Spanish...