.... Haigh expands his earlier treatment of Güemes ( HAHR , November 1964, pp. 481-490) in this short monograph. He holds to his conviction that Güemes was not a tyrannical caudillo, but rather an agent of the dominant group. Since the question “tyrant or tool” was already decided in the article, one should...

..., but also a tool for political democratization. Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Political Protest and Street Art: Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries . By Chaffee Lyman G. . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1993 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography . xv...

...Silvia Escanilla Huerta Abstract This article argues that the impact of the Constitution of Cádiz among Indigenous communities in the Viceroyalty of Peru was significant. In the context of the imperial crisis of the Spanish crown, Indigenous people took the tools that the constitution granted them...

...-imperial Caribbean. Indigenous maritime technologies and martial skills allowed them to forge transimperial networks of raiding and trafficking of European merchandise, captives, foodstuffs, and staple commodities. These practices were tools used to repel European incursions, exploit the Spanish Empire...

... to conclude that Perón refused to join the Fund and Bank because he considered them to be tools of US imperialism. This article reveals that, contrary to populist depictions of Perón, he made significant efforts to make Argentina a member of the IMF and the World Bank. In effect, between 1946 and 1955 Perón...

...Renato P. Colistete Abstract This article examines the relations between the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and its local allies in Brazil during the 1950s and early 1960s. Devised as a tool for uniting non-Communist trade unions worldwide, the ICFTU saw its influence...

... of these pictorial manuscripts into the evangelical tool kit. I here propose a later origin for the genre, as one of the legitimating strategies pursued by indigenous elites in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I suggest that pictographic catechisms supported elites' claims that they accepted...

... tool for an emerging cultural elite that sought to assert its cultural, social, economic, and ethnic superiority. The article also discusses the role of testas de ferro and recovers the history of Romão José de Lima, one of this profession's most renowned representatives. 81. Pedro Malasarte...

... generally used for cooking and serving food. The author's analysis of the pottery appears in a helpful appendix containing photos, tables, and drawings. Many insights on the ancient diet at La Consentida were gleaned from examining ground stone tools, stonecutting tools, human bone, and animal remains...

... and witnessed their different labor conditions. Among what they saw were the tools preferred by natives for their daily tasks. “The machete is an article of personal furniture used by countrymen throughout Spanish America as universally as pocket-knives among us,” they reported; “Collinsville in Connecticut...

..., ethnographic, and historical analytical tools aimed at recovering the history and legacy of a group of Africans and their descendants in both Cuba and Nigeria. Although Otero’s study is not the first to focus on this particular group (the first was Rodolfo Sarracino’s Los que volvieron a Africa [Havana...

... into a professionalized “quiet tool” through ongoing interactions between German governments and ethnic German clubs abroad, this changed once World War I broke out. Kloosterhuis masterfully demonstrates how the maelstrom of war itself turned governmental cultural policy into a new, distinct process that militarized...

...Mark D. Szuchman As the first CD-ROM to be reviewed in the HAHR , this one is appropriate in that it records a reference tool unrivaled for its longevity and usefulness. The Handbook of Latin American Studies has been produced annually since 1936 by the Hispanic Division of the Library...

... integrated in the complex societies of later prehistory. In Archaic cultures, these innovations — permanent settlements, zoomorphic art, pottery, food crops, and ground-stone tools, tend to appear disparately. The ancient people of San Jacinto 1 were subtropical foragers who made earthenware ritual pottery...

... 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This fine volume highlights ways of writing indigenous history beyond the usual frameworks supplied by academia. The authors seek to “decolonize indigenous narratives with the very same tools we have inherited from colonialism” (p. 220), to encourage more intense...

... machine than previously thought. Central to these debates have been the fiscal structure and tools developed to collect revenue from the monarchy's territories. One of the fiscal instruments most often associated with the empire's absolutist and coercive nature is extraordinary taxation employed...

... photographs of the Lacandon, with both sexes displaying long hair and wearing non-Western dress, posed alongside the murals, ruined buildings, and carved inscriptions. The physical resemblance between the living Lacandon and the pre-Hispanic murals, their use of stone tools and weapons, and their practice...

... as have been previous similar exercises. Eventually a sequence for the monuments will emerge in conjunction with ceramic, tool and technical sequences. It is melancholy to see a young scholar beating these dead horses when more fruitful areas lie untouched. Wicke’s conclusion that Olmec culture...