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...Robert G. Keith La economía de un desierto: Tarapacá durante la colonia . By Sergio Villalobos R . Santiago : Ediciones Nueva Universidad , 1979 . Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 278 . Paper. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 This monograph...

.... The site of the company’s activities was the Bolivian department of Cobija. This area, and the Peruvian province of Tarapacá immediately to its north, provided the world’s only commercially exploitable sources of nitrate of soda in the nineteenth century. Refined from a detrital conglomerate known...

... political and economic developments to 1886, specifically: 1) the pattern of British investments in Chile; 2) the War of the Pacific (1879-1883) in which Chile took the Peruvian province of Tarapacá and rich deposits of nitrate; and 3) the involvement in nitrates of an English engineer, John Thomas North...

... the alien population at a third in 1887. 105 See R. N. Burr, The Stillborn Panama Congress (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962), passim . Balmaceda had described Chile’s conquest of Tarapacá as part of his country’s “civilising mission.” Diario Oficial of Santiago...

... for twenty-five percent of all productive capacity and actual output in Tarapacá. Even in 1886, when John Thomas North had emerged as a major force in the industry, the 4 houses provided thirty-one percent of the province’s production; see Thomas F. O’Brien, “British Investors and the Decline of the Chilean...

... apertura de Congreso Nacional de 1889 (Santiago, 1889), pp. 8-10; see also José M. Yrarrázaval Larraín, “La administración Balmaceda y el salitre de Tarapacá,” Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia , No. 47 (1952), pp. 47-74. 20 See Enrique Bunster, Bombardeo de Valparaiso y otros relatos...

... provincia salitrera de Tarapacá. Domiciliado directamente en esa zona de fuerte concentración proletaria entre 1911 y 1915, el célebre líder socialista y sus seguidores se esforzaron por llevar a cabo, a modo de plan piloto, la transformación del antiguo elemento popular en un agente calificado para...

... photographs, some of which are quite rare. The author divided the work into sections, each preceded by a rough chronology, covering various topics: the background to the war, the naval campaign, Prado’s fall from power, the loss of Tarapacá and Arica, the siege of Lima, the guerrilla war...

..., the important battles—Iquique, Angamos, Tarapacá, Chorrillos, and Miraflores—as well as Chile’s frustrating anti-guerrilla struggles in the Peruvian altiplano. Despite his best efforts, the editor does not provide a good overview of the war, perhaps because the task is too enormous. Indeed, it appears very...

... of several months’ field and notarial research by a Dutch sociologist, analyzes the consequences of recent changes in Chilean water law for Aymara individuals and communities in the arid Norte Grande. Since 1981, highland cultivators and pastoralists in the region of Tarapacá have struggled to maintain...

... of that political system, including electoral regulations and chicanery along with political parties and their caudillos, caciques, factions, and programs. The “Lion of Tarapacá” also owed his success to protests from emergent middle- and working-class sectors in the cities, to pressures from new interest-group...

.... At this natural dividing point in the history of South America’s nitrate industry the author closes his study. Centuries ago members of the Inca Empire residing in the modern Chilean provinces of Tarapacá and Antofagasta discovered that nitrates, found in abundance in this area, had beneficial results when...

.... In part one, “Ecology and Society,” Olivier Dollfus reviews the environmental mosaic of the cordillera; Lautaro Núñez discusses the 8,000-year occupation of the Tarapacá drainage of northern Chile; and Ana María Lorandi assesses the widespread “horizons” of archeological interaction. The Inca...

... times. Lautaro Núñez traces sociopolitical and economic changes in the Tarapacá Valley, Chile, from preceramic to the contemporary period. Ana María Lorandi concludes that north-coast Peruvian Chimú and Bolivian Tiahuanaco peoples expanded in a way similar to the Inca for the same reason— territorial...

... creoles following the rebellion. Rossana Barragán analyzes the ties between La Paz’s increasingly concentrated merchant elite and the political power centered in the city’s cabildo. Jorge Hidalgo L. links the Túpac Amaru movement to uprisings in Arica, Tarapacá, and Atacama. Sergio Serulnikov considers...

..., the Treaty of Ancón ended Peru’s participation in the bloody War of the Pacific. The agreement ceded the nitrate-rich province of Tarapacá to Chile as well as giving the latter control of Tacna and Arica for a period of ten years. After a decade, there was to be a plebiscite: the winner would receive...

.... The discovery of sodium nitrate in the desert pampa provinces of Antofagasta and Tarapacá led to the migration of Chilean workers into those areas to intermingle with resident Peruvian and Bolivian settlers. Competition over mineral wealth soon led to the War of the Pacific (1879–84), stark conflict between...

... of prostitution in the nitrate region of Tarapacá during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He questions whether social class is a useful category in the study of prostitution, since prostitution was not unique to the working class. Gender, he argues, proves much more analytically useful than...

... and labor” (p. 24). I further qualify this grant of Native tribute and labor as “geographically defined,” because an encomienda granted to an individual entailed the “right to enjoy the tributes of Indians within a certain boundary” and was usually identified by reference to a geographic location (Tarapacá...

.... The Chileans then moved by land into Peru’s Tarapacá province, where they suffered some short-term setbacks before conquering that area as well. By May 1880, they had also succeeded in driving their opponents out of Tacna and Arica provinces, after which the Bolivians abandoned the fight and went home. Despite...