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...Celso Rodbíguez Historia visible e historia esotérica: Personajes y claves del debate latinoamericano . By de Azúa Carlos Real . Montevideo , 1975 . Arca Editorial . Pp. 173 . Paper. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 This collection of brief essays, written...

...Rick A. López Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment . By Bleichmar Daniela . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 286 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright...

..., alternately expanded and shrank according to the perceived gravity of the threat from workers. When necessary, the militant core was prepared to draft additional persons for the cause. This was particularly true of the male brigades. As one member explained, there was a “visible” and an “invisible” Liga. 41...

... revolutionary, state-promoted projects of reconstruction have produced violent (in)visibilities in those areas where they have been implemented. 69 Rendering visible this kind of political work that building does, however, requires scholarly attention not only to the discourses animating these state...

...Colby Ristow In Visible Ruins , Mónica Salas Landa examines the aesthetic dimension of state building in the lowlands of Veracruz through the rise and fall of Mexico's revolutionary project. Tracing the intertwined histories of three state interventions—agrarian reform, economic nationalism...

...Paulo Henrique Martinez Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil . By Jacob Blanc . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi, 296 pp. Paper, $27.95 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University...

...Christine Ehrick Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film . By Juan Sebastián Ospina León . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 250 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright ©...

... Chile. He views these objects as forms of communication because of the ways they were intentionally displayed and made visible to the public. As such, they can be seen as evidence of the communication of social and political meaning by historical actors. It is a novel approach that allows him to dig...

... and Afro-American worlds. The leitmotifs linking these themes are the issues of visibility and invisibility. Particular attention attaches to the extent that postindependence establishments “edited” Afro–Latin Americans out “of official and semiofficial narratives of national history” (p. 4). Accounts...

.... Thus, race serves as one of many characteristics used to classify individuals within a social and economic matrix. While visible African ancestry may be judged a bad thing, its significance depends on an individual’s other visible characteristics such as wealth, education, and professional status...

... with medication and preventive measures, and response to treatment was rapid and visible. The Mexican government had its own reasons for embracing the initiative. The project provided a quick and visible benefit to the public as compared with more controversial policies such as land reform and labor laws...

... strategic points along the Chagres and to block the overland route to the Pacific. Although the victory lacked the bloodshed and drama of Cartagena de Indias' historic triumph over British forces a year earlier—not a shot was fired—Portobelo's highly visible deterrent led Vernon, after holding the port...

... sixteenth-century Mexico City's Alameda Central park; Bourbon botanic gardens, paseos, and parks; crowded downtowns as sites of economic and political power; and suburbs and garden cities. In turn, Idurre Alonso examines in “The Visible and the Invisible: The Photographic Images of the Metropolis...

... with their activity should educate our eyes so that we can render their visions visible and acknowledge their presence as distinct historical subjects. As clues to history, photos are sights/sites that reflect and refract the social contests over meaning that give rise to them. Like the semiotic signs discussed...

... government might assume a not-too-visibly authoritarian character; signs of this are visible as of early 1994). As recent experience in both the United States and Great Britain indicates, there is generally good reason to be skeptical about the social effects of the comprehensive free-market approach...

... position papers, and climbed career ladders; their dossiers and those of the military may be consulted along with their solicitudes to enter military and civil orders. Historians, like journalists, prefer bureaucrats as subjects of study, because of high visibility and the presence of administrative...

... . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Although it was unquestionably the worst natural disaster in Argentine history, the 1944 earthquake in San Juan has been reduced to a mere anecdote: the quake gave Juan Domingo Perón national visibility as he organized the relief collection that made him...

... which to build an overall analysis of the relationship between (homo)sexuality and society. Images of Ambiente offers an important and innovative interpretation of Latin American art and its relationship to sexually charged homosocial sensibilities that become visible in the late nineteenth century...

... of social security with medical and maternity coverage resonated within the same medical populism visible in the Carbell case. Palmer adroitly lays the foundation for this conclusion with earlier discussions of public health programs and the large numbers of physicians holding high political office after...

... so many Argentines take him seriously? Could he back his pretensions with real intellectual substance, despite his lack of visible qualifications? After all, Goussac left a substantial oeuvre that includes several historical studies, near countless articles and critical notes, a volume of poetry...