... 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. But it was the father of the third...

... offers a sophisticated and historically grounded intervention into more contemporary discussions on climate change, adaptation, resilience, and vulnerability. To this main account Skopyk adds a final and more reflexive chapter. It examines the arbitration of a land conflict in 1761. The dispute...

... 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...

... from the tropical forests of Ecuador's Pacific coast into the Andean sierra snowpack. Pedro de Alvarado had left Guatemala chasing a slice of South America's wealth. The group was bound for Quito. Their route directly through the mountains left them vulnerable to the bitter winds, difficult footing...

..., 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...

... at swordpoint. The victory celebration was shortlived. When the Dutch reunited their entire fleet in Callao they turned their full strength on Guayaquil. The city appeared vulnerable and a successful attack might avenge some of the earlier frustrations against the Spanish in land engagements. 25...

... 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...

...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...

..., and in the South, 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. According to Delson, town planning in Brazil included redistribution of land, subsidies for Azorian immigration, the reorganization...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... unencumbered by ideological platitude. The depth of Ferris’s analysis is similar to that of Walter 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...

... 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...

... on the employment, social networks, and self-image of the middle class. The authors focus on Chilean teachers, a segment of the middle class traditionally part of the public sector and essential for reproducing state ideology. These factors have made teachers especially vulnerable to the economic policies...

... economically powerful and Mexico economically vulnerable, their location side by side along thousands of miles of border will continue to foster problems strikingly similar to those faced by the two countries during the era from 1910 to 1920” (p. 162). ...