... of early opposition to the dictatorship. Until now, however, the Comité Chileno's role in this first phase of resistance, along with Cuba's support for the committee, has received little attention. Beyond passing mention, the view from Havana and the significant role that Cuban-based opposition...

... of military kidnappings, murders, and massacres that followed. 92 As one woman told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “It was as if the señor bishop didn't exist. He didn't say anything. Not even by radio did he say anything to raise our spirits.” 93 This silence only reinforced the view...

...Robert M. Carmack Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography . By Berdan Frances F. , Chance John K. , Sandstrom Alan , Stark Barbara L. , Taggart James , and Umberger Emily . Salt Lake...

...Heather Fowler-Salamini From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867 – 1911 . By Chassen-López Francie R. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 608 pp. Cloth...

... the Spanish point of view as rule first through caciques, then through “local self-government, carefully controlled from above” (p. 247), a system in which “the Indians were allowed little room for independent action” (p. 249). He sees the Tzeltal revolt as an isolated example of independent action...

...James Nelson Goodsell The Middle Beat: A Correspondent’s View of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador . By Kennedy Paul P. . Edited by Ross Stanley R. . New York , 1971 . Teachers College Press, Columbia University . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. xix , 235 . Cloth. $8.50...

.... This view is expressed quite clearly by the formulator of the dichotomy, Sánchez-Albornoz: The settlers of these towns … came to the frontier conscious of their danger but spurred by necessity and hope. The majority of them must have been above all warriors and shepherds; warriors because the Saracen...

... more; he considered them an unfavorable environment for the evaluation of popular music, a subject he treated far more seriously than politics. Porto by no means viewed CAMDE and the popular music festivals as equivalent offenses. He reserved some of his most venomous passages for the former, while...

... their agricultural practices were (from the point of view of the European outsiders) backward and antiquated. They saw beggars, including many women and children, flock into the cities when the droughts came, where there were no resources to care for them. They saw most of the population living in misery—uneducated...

... for permission to build new rail lines for private use, Fermín de Solá wrote exuberandy that Cienfuegos was providing a brilliant example of work and of “faith in the future.” 20 A view across the canefields of Limones, a colonia of Soledad (now Pepito Tey), toward Cumanayagua and the Trinidad (now...

.... An ethnic group viewed itself as a “family” of ayllu lineages, related to one another by descent from a common ancestor-god. Within such “families,” exchanges of labor created bonds of mutual obligation by which households and ayllus gained access to resources and labor assistance. Such cooperation enabled...

...Otis H. Green The Green Continent. A Comprehensive View of Latin America by its Leading Writers . An anthology selected and edited by Arciniegas Germán . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1944 . Pp. xxii , 533 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

...Theodore D. McCown Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Indians of the High Andes: Report of the Commission Appointed by the Committee on Coöperation in Latin America to Study the Indians of the Andean Highland, with a View to Establishing a Coöperative Christian Enterprise...

...Samuel Flagg Bemis The Inter-American System: A Canadian View . By Humphrey John P. . ( Toronto : Canadian Institute of International Affairs , 1942 . Pp. xi , 329 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...John D. Martz Diplomatic Claims: Latin American Historians View the United States . Edited and Translated by Dean Warren . New York : University Press of America , 1985 . Tables. Notes . Pp. x , 320 . Cloth. $28.00 . Paper. $14.75 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press...

... activity had preceded this order by over a half century. Forty-five years later, however, a decree suspended the clergy’s right to participate in the trade. It was only restored in 1694 by Governor Fausto Cruzat y Góngora in view of the poverty of the Islands in general and the priests in particular. 4...

...Eric Van Young The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain . By Cervantes Fernando . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1994 . Map. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index , x , 182 pp. Cloth . $22.50 . An Evil Lost to View...

... of about 40 contemporary photographs, including individual and group portraits of officers and soldiers, views of military activity, and scenes from the countryside and Santiago. These photos add to the work’s effectiveness in achieving its aim, which, as its subtitle asserts, is to provide “a soldier’s...

... views on the proper position of women in the family and provided a measure of protection for women’s rights. A woman was under the control of her father until he died or she married. This power over her person and property might be exercised by the mother, in a more limited fashion, if she...

...Steve Mumme Mexican Democracy: A Critical View . By Johnson Kenneth F. . 2d ed. New York , 1978 . Praeger Publishers . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii , 267 . Paper . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 This revised edition of Professor Johnson’s...