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... themselves vulnerable to accusations of uncleanliness and ancestral shame. Yet successful or not, indigenous participation in the discourse of limpieza helped influence what it meant in New Spain to be “honorable” and “pure,” and therefore eligible for social mobility. The fiscal’s opinion is rich...

... clogged up and dried out. It was a period of tremendous geomorphological change. That this should happen not in the wettest period of the last millennium but in the drier period that followed is the nub of the book. It argues that a landscape's vulnerability to flooding was as much determined by local...

... concerning the methods and purposes of political geography, and then applies these ideas to an analysis of the strategic position of Brazil. He identifies the South as the most vulnerable to attack from within the hemisphere; the Northeast most vulnerable to attack from outside. The challenge to Brazil, he...

... regime’s maximum vulnerability occurred in the 1960s—when U.S. counterinsurgency assistance was more important and the guerrilla movement more threatening (p. 179)· Thus while Wickham-Crowley correctly asserts that no government that was not a “mafiacracy” succumbed to guerrilla movements, he dismisses too...

... lull in U.S. threat perceptions and propose new initiatives. At the same time, U.S. leaders must revise their traditional view of Latin America as “vulnerable and volatile.” The analysis is divided into four main sections: “Perspectives of Policy Makers,” "Inter-American Military Relations,” “Arms...

..., the focus is shifted, in part, from black related diseases to the whites’ vulnerability to malaria and yellow fever before the twentieth century, and, in part, to improved nutrition and modern medicine which have “cleansed” the islands and resulted in a new wave of white exploitation of the region...

... that can emerge between Indigenous and vulnerable populations and extractive industries, as well as the international networks of financing and regulation that shape these conflicts. The text also documents how unexpected connections can produce effective results—as when the Mountain Institute connected...

... pace, the book would be well suited for undergraduate classrooms. Lovell lays bare the interconquistador rivalries, itinerant pursuits of illusionary wealth, and, ultimately, the all-for-naught results. Readers will clearly see the mass death and calamity that befell so many vulnerable populations...

..., and economic structures as he delves into the consequences of these events for variants of plantation agriculture based on crops, scale, and vulnerability. Most significantly, he examines the consequences for those most exploited and vulnerable in these systems: slaves. He also examines religious and private...

... in São Paulo city. Von Binzer shows the tolls and transformation involved in journeys such as hers. Travel abroad raises the prospect of not only contrasting mentalities and psychic unease but unhealthiness, acclimatization, and disease. Throughout von Binzer's fictional account her vulnerability can...

... to their superior forces and control of the sea. The Dutch occupation of Brazil obviously served as one of their models. Even though the young Spanish lieutenants visited the port in the 1740s, Guayaquil’s importance and vulnerability had not changed appreciably from the 1630s. 31 Chinchón to King, April 15...

... contributors generally concur. While Curt Gasteyger, deputy director of the Atlantic Institute in Paris, concludes “the Soviet presence is small and highly vulnerable” (p. 69), he also accepts that “a more or less permanent presence has been established” (p. 59), with political as well as strategic...

..., a zone vulnerable to Spanish expansion. These towns were laid out in a Baroque style, with straight streets, a central square, and uniformly built houses. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 New Towns for Colonial Brazil: Spatial and Social Planning of the Eighteenth Century...

...Gary W. Wynia Reacting to the apparent failure of economic development through industrialization and integration, some social scientists have recently turned to theories of “dependency” to explain Latin America’s increasing vulnerability to foreign penetration and the concomitant lack...

... to pacify, convert, or settle the indigenous population. Consequently, the area became vulnerable to the Portuguese incursions. Further development of the Spanish-Portuguese conflict resulted in the establishment of the Bishopric and Comandancia of Mainas in 1802. Although brief, this book provides some...

... of the Tagalog chiefs, or datus , vulnerable to bribes or other persuasion, who sold or donated land which was not their own despite Spanish law expressly forbidding alienation of village lands. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Landed Estates in the Colonial Philippines . By Cushner...

... by any virtue, and pursues him with unremitting tenacity (and unsatisfactory documentation). Miles is a vulnerable figure, to be sure, and he unblushingly seized a lot of credit that belonged to others; but his role in ending the outbreak was not devoid of achievement. Faulk possesses obvious powers...

... in the decade prior to World War I and the accompanying increased vulnerability of the poor to epidemics, particularly to the ravages of tuberculosis (pp. 63, 65, 128). Heraclio Bonilla has shown both skill and judicious care in his use of evidence. While a simple line map would have been of value...

... LaFeber in Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (which she cites) without comparable polemic overtones. The most vulnerable aspect of Ferris’s analysis is the use of estimated numbers to add emphasis to particular statements. For example, in the introduction the estimated...

... class traditionally part of the public sector and essential for reproducing state ideology. These factors have made teachers especially vulnerable to the economic policies and political repression of the Pinochet regime. The volume opens with a brief but useful overview of Chile’s neoliberal...