...Valerie Fraser Alfredo Boulton and His Contemporaries: Critical Dialogues in Venezuelan Art, 1912 – 1974 . Edited by Jiménez Ariel . New York : Museum of Modern Art , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 392 pp. Paper , $35.00...

...Brian McBeth Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon . By Ellner Steve . Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2008 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 257 . Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The current...

...Elena Block Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism . By Rafael Sánchez . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 393 pp. Paper , $35.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...

...Nikita Harwich Vallenilla * The ideas for this paper originated from a series of seminars on Venezuelan positivism taught by the author during a visiting professorship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the Maison des Pays Ibériques in Bordeaux in Apr.-June...

... of Bolivarianism is the autonomous, constituent power of the Venezuela pueblo, but even doubters should concede that Ciccariello-Maher makes a major contribution to our understanding of leftist politics. In compiling his interviews, Ciccariello-Maher moved through Venezuelan society, meeting activists...

...Edwin Lieuwen The Nationalization of the Venezuelan Oil Industry: From Technocratic Success to Political Failure . By Coronel Gustavo . Lexington, MA. : D.C. Heath , 1983 . Notes. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 292 . Cloth . $26.95 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

...Judith Ewell Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress . Edited by Mccoy Jennifer New Brunswick : Transaction , 1995 . Graphs. Tables. Notes. Index , vi , 287 pp. Paper . $21.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 This excellent collection, originally published...

... Press 1986 Tales of the Yanomami. Daily Life in the Venezuelan Forest . By Lizot Jacques . Translated by Simon Ernest . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . Cambridge Studies of Social Anthropology . General Editor: Goody Jack . Illustrations. Map. Notes...

... of the impact of Venezuelan government policies, including Green Revolution initiatives, on the countryside in the past thirty years. Despite these strong points and despite the fact that Roseberry’s subject is an important one—a study of coffee in Venezuela is long overdue—this book does not fulfill its...

... combine to flaw this book. For these reasons, this reviewer feels that it is not a useful contribution, either to the study of Venezuelan history, or to the comparative analysis of the military in Latin America. The author accepts a common explanation of the 1948 coup, ascribing it to Acción...

...LaMond Tullis Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant . By Powell John Duncan . Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1971 . Harvard University Press . Tables. Figures. Index . Pp. 259 . Cloth. $8.50 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Powell has looked...

...David Myers Based on this research, scholars can look forward in the second volume to a careful treatment of Venezuelan voter attitudes toward political parties and candidates in 1973. In terms of the next step for researching parties and elections in Venezuela, the most productive use of scarce...

...Charles Bussing Anthropologists have in recent years focused a good deal of their attention on complex societies and issues related to urbanism, urbanization, modernization, and the resultant social and cultural changes. The Venezuelan Peasant in Country and City , first in a new monograph...

...Daniel H. Levine The Challenge of Venezuelan Democracy . By Gil Yepes José Antonio . Translated by Evelyn Harrison I. , Gil de Yanes Loló , and Salti Danielle . Foreword by Martz John D. . New Brunswick : Transaction Books , 1981 . Tables. Notes. Figures. Index...

...Robert D. Bond Venezuelan Foreign Policy: Its Organization and Beginning . By Carlisle Douglas H. . Washington, D.C. , 1979 . University Press of America . Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. vi , 208 . Paper. $9.00 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 One...

...G.A.B. Venezuelan History: A Comprehensive Working Bibliography . Edited by Lombardi John V. . Boston , 1977 . G. K. Hall . Index . Pp. xiv , 530 . Cloth. $20.00 . Chilean Literature: A Working Bibliography of Secondary Sources . By Foster David William . Boston...

...Franklin Tugwell Venezuelan Economic Development: A Politico-Economic Analysis . By Allen Loring . Greenwich, Conn. , 1977 . JAI Press . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 310 . Cloth . $23.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Only a handful...

...Loring Allen Venezuelan Industrialization: Dependent or Autonomous? By Jongkind Fred . Amsterdam : Center for Latin American Research and Documentation , 1981 . Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography . Pp. viii , 229 . Paper. Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Would...