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... Västindiska Kompaniet fram till 1796 . By Hildebrand Ingegerd . ( Stockholm : Linstedts Universitetsbokhandel , 1951 . Pp. 350 . Bibliography, appendixes, English summary, index. Paper .) ...

... of Caracas, and of the Nation; records of the Academies of History and of Medicine; and private sources. Few physicians settled in the sparsely populated country till the end of the 16th century. Adapting to aboriginal customs curanderos —medicine men—were the only recourse in illness. Malaria and smallpox...

... farm land of the nation. Theoretically lands granted in ejidos could be tilled either in individual plots or collectively as the ejidatarios wished. However, the author points out that in reality outside political influences have usually determined the type of operations through various persuasive...

... prospects of becoming a viable democracy. His objective is to do this “with an eye toward social science theories that focus on power distribution in order to explain international interactions and the advent and consolidation of democracy” (p. 198). Few scholars deny that from even before 1903 till...

... was praised thirty years ago (reviewed in HAHR , February 1938). However, scholarship has made some progress during that time, even in the relatively little-tilled field of mid-nineteenth century Mexican history, and Valadés has not kept up with it. In both the second edition (1951) and this present edition...

... with it, first at Balliol College, Oxford, and then in Whitehall, till 1945, and was a consultant to it even after that. It was while I was a member of this that I wrote a little pamphlet in the Oxford series of Pamphlets on World Affairs, and also my book The Evolution of Modern Latin America . I...

... kinder to that unhappy lady than many of her biographers, and presents a strong ease for the conclusion that she was neurotic but not insane till finally the betrayals of her father, her husband, and her son reduced her to madness. Yet, occasionally it seems that Ferdinand and Charles especially cannot...

.... It has an excellent introduction, and good prefaces for each author ; in fact, one of the best features of the book are these short biographies (as with Miguel Angel Asturias, whose data are hard to find). The book is divided into three chronological periods : the mid XIX century ; from 1880 till 1909...

... had, he would not have repeatedly confused Jersey Standard’s (Exxon) Venezuelan operation with the far larger production (till 1932) of Standard Oil of Indiana. An even more glaring omission is Carl Gerretson’s monumental three-volume history of the Royal Dutch-Shell, Geschiedenis der “Koninklijke...

... in Mexico City, school theory and policy put the blame for failure on the victims, judged their culture inferior, and overlooked the obvious: schooling without a drastic transformation of society will not better the lot of the poor. Without land to till, without hope of a decent job, or without...

... were poor, isolated colonists who struggled against such adversities as lack of markets, hostile Indians, and complete absence of the normal amenities of civilization, and that even the governor had to till his field or die of starvation. The book also corroborates widespread reports that in the coffee...

... a Fellow of Pembroke College. He remained a Fellow of Pembroke till his death, serving the College from 1952-65 first as Director of Studies in History and then also as Senior Tutor, but relinquishing both offices on his election to the University Chair of Economic History. He had previously been...

... America. This is, indeed, well-tilled soil. The overthrow of the leftist government by CIA- and United Fruit Company-supported rebels is understood as one of the most blatant efforts by the United States to assert its economic and political power in Central America. But that is where most scholarly work...

... assumptions” erroneously held by most scholars tilling the Latin American fields. In the first part, then again in the final chapter, he sets up straw men and merrily knocks them down with evident self-satisfaction. He tilts unnecessarily with Martin Needler (pp. 156-157); he pauses for a shot at Albert...

... peasants. Unfortunately, Werlich has overstated the successes of the revolution. It is not true that “the land belongs to those who till the soil” (p. 372). Workers on the collectivized sugar estates, who do not participate in the management of the plantations, are no more than an agricultural proletariat...