...Marvin Alisky Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture . Edited by Sos-Nowski Saúl and Popkin Louise B. . Translated by Popkin Louise B. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1993 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. 259 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $17.95...

... to a middle class of tenants and landowners of relative strength. Although native cattle had survived, crosses with English strains predominated. Refrigeration plants owned by the Chicago Trust and English companies had taken over the Uruguayan-owned salteries, frozen meat from jerky, and the European markets...

...Luis Roniger Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967 – 1984 . By Markarian Vania . Latin American Studies Social Sciences and Law . New York : Routledge , 2005 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 263 pp. Cloth , $85.00...

... approaches the related but contradictory histories of people of African descent in Uruguay and of the widespread embrace of African culture by Euro-Uruguayans. The contradiction lies in the fact that Euro-Uruguayan interest in African music and culture exploded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

... their class, ethnic, and political characteristics. She compares their membership in different organizations and thus traces changes in those organizations over the first three decades of the twentieth century. One surprising conclusion is that immigration does not explain the distinctive nature of Uruguayan...

... traditions and incorporating elements from both. As such, these rhythms — Argentine and Uruguayan tango, Brazilian samba, Colombian cumbia, Cuban rumba and son, Dominican merengue and bachata, Puerto Rican bomba, plena, and salsa — are eloquent representations of the idea and practice of race mixture...

... to find its political history utterly baffling, this book brings wonderful clarity. Finally, Rilla provides a comprehensive guide to twentieth-century Uruguayan historiography. A major chapter is devoted to Eduardo Acevedo and Juan E. Pivel Devoto, one Colorado and the other Blanco, both recognized...

... adapted the Marxist Nicos Poulantzas’s theory of the relative autonomy of the capitalist state to the particular nature of Uruguayan capitalist modernization. For Finch, the Uruguayan dominant class was weakened in the last quarter of the nineteenth century by divisions between progressive ranchers...

...George Reid Andrews Lucamba: Herencia africana en el tango, 1870 – 1890 . By Goldman Gustavo . Montevideo : Ediciones Perro Andaluz , 2008 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . 252 pp. Paper . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Uruguayan musicologist...

...-edged sword. Stronger states, which model international law into expressions of their convenience, usually help to enact rules that afterward can be used by weaker states to defend themselves from excessive claims. In this context, the story emerges of Spanish-Uruguayan negotiations up to the exchange...

... the importance of José Pedro Barrán’s contributions to Uruguayan historiography. In some ways, he is Uruguayan historiography. When Professor Barrán passed away in September 2009 at the age of 75, his death made headlines rarely afforded to scholars in the United States. “José Pedro Barrán has died and history...

... 2011 In 1963, when Milton Vanger published José Batlle y Ordóñez of Uruguay: The Creator of His Times, 1902 – 1907 , he introduced to English-speaking audiences the Uruguayan leader who created the western hemisphere’s first welfare state. Vanger followed up in 1980 with The Model Country...

.... In the two volumes reviewed here, Silvia Dutrénit Bielous, an Uruguayan historian working in Mexico, offers two very different approaches to examine the relationship between the military and political parties under the military regimes in three countries of the Southern cone, as well as the role of those...

... of Brazilian and Uruguayan revolutionary struggles, has resulted in his being characterized as el héroe de ambos mundos . After a military defeat in Italy’s earliest unification struggles, he fled in 1836 to South America where he fought for the state of Rio Grande do Sul in its revolt against the Brazilian...

.... ix , 337 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Overall, Of Light and Struggle is a well-written, insightful study and an important contribution both to Uruguayan history and to larger questions of human rights, democracy, and justice/accountability during the late Cold War era. It should be essential reading...

... into five short chapters covering such topics as: ideology, membership, organization, and tactics, with a final brief account of the Uruguayan government’s reactions to the M.L.N.’s actions from 1962 to 1972. In each of these chapters, Porzecanski leaves a number of questions unanswered. What is worse...

... del Primer Congreso Internacional de Estudiantes Americanos (Montevideo, 1961). Future presidents were Manuel Prado Ugarteche of Peru, Nerun de Oliveira Ramos of Brazil, and the tragic Baltasar Brum of Uruguay. Several members of the Uruguayan delegation later rose to cabinet posts and to membership...

... assassination did serve as a pressure outlet for a nation that had been hopelessly sunk in misery; in the minds of many Uruguayans his death removed one of the major obstacles to peace for a thoroughly exhausted nation. Forcibly conscripting men to fight against rebels who frequently were friends and relatives...