...Joseph R. Farrell Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism . By Winn Peter . New York : Oxford University Press , 1986 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 328 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987...

...Jerry L. Weaver Conferencia Internacional. Modelos de desarrollo en América Latina . Edited by Drekonja Gerhard . Prologue by Fritz Gerhard and Freyh Brigitte . Berlin , 1974 . Fundación Alemana para el Desarrollo Internacional . Tables . Pp. iii , 212 . Paper...

...Frederick Stirton Weaver The Political Economy of Central America Since 1920 . By Bulmer-Thomas Victor . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1987 . Acronyms. Tables. Map. Graphs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. xxii , 414 . Paper. Copyright 1989 by Duke...

...Frederick Stirton Weaver Estado y capitalismo en América Latina: Casos de México y Argentina . By Arnaud Pascal . Mexico City : Siglo Veintiuno Editores , 1981 . Bibliography . Pp. 242 . Paper. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 In his introduction, Pascal...

...Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Inside the Volcano: The History and Political Economy of Central America . By Weaver Frederick Stirton . Boulder : Westview Press , 1994 . Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 276 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 1995...

...Gilbert W. Merkx Class, State, and Industrial Structure: The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth . By Weaver Frederick Stirton . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1980 . Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 247 . Cloth. Copyright 1982 by Duke...

...Pamela S. Murray Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal with a Selection of Her Poems . By Weaver Kathleen . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2009 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. xiv , 309 pp. Cloth , $64.00 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University...

...Susan Masuoka Guatemalan Backstrap Weaving is suggested for weavers wishing to duplicate Highland Indian textiles. For students seeking a scholarly overview of Guatemala’s rich costume tradition, however, Lila M. O’Neale’s book (available from Johnson Reprint Corporation) is a better...

...—a protracted version appeared in 1971—identifies a left-wing trend in military interventions precipitated by the impact of external factors on changing domestic circumstances. Past case study and quantification approaches are then critically dissected by Jerry Weaver, who contrasts presumably ideologically...

... section casts a wider net to link activities portrayed in the Mapa to situations found elsewhere (Vincent James Stanzione, Jace Weaver and Laura Adams Weaver, and Osvaldo García-Goyco) and to consider the implications of the physical arrangement of signs and symbols (Dana Liebsohn). The final essay...

... (just prior to the Inca conquest), Karen Olsen Bruhns and Ann Pollard Rowe detail the highland Indians’ gradual shift from nudity and body painting to the wearing of loincloths, skirts, and tabards spun from cotton and camelid hair. That highland Indians were prolific cotton weavers is especially...

... eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the country imported most of its cloth—not, however, only from Peru and Ecuador but also legally and illegally from France and Britain. At the same time, thousands of local spinners and weavers produced a rustic and coarse cloth for household use that was sold...

...Dana G. Munro The European Possessions in the Caribbean Area . By Platt Ray R. , Wright John K. , Weaver John C. , and Fairchild Johnson E. . ( New York : American Geographical Society , 1941 . Pp. vi , 112 . $1.00 .) Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ...

... Palm Weavers among the Zapotec: A Critical Re-Examination of the “Albarradas Enigma,” Scott Cook; Zapotec Military Strategy, David A. Peterson; The Genealogy of Macuilxochitl: A 16th-Century Zapotee Pictorial from the Valley of Oaxaca, Joseph W. Whitecotton; Notes on the Estadística Manuscripts...

... States and the cooperative movement starting with the Rochdale Weavers. The last chapter of this section examines Soviet economic policy. The third and last part analyzes international trade by means of economic concepts such as price and production and savings and investment and is of less interest...

... of the United States–Mexico Border, Thomas Weaver; The Corrido: Yesterday and Today, Américo Paredes. ...

... concentrating on antiwar politics, São Paulo’s women textile workers—as they had in 1907—had to organize themselves to push for improved conditions in the factories and for higher wages. In May 1917, as prices for foodstuffs fluctuated widely and conditions in the mills became ever more dangerous, women weavers...

... in the Santander region of Colombia—tobacco growers, cotton weavers, and palmleaf hat weavers. Johnson, through various calculations, argued that tobacco growers were a relatively insignificant element in Santander’s export economy in the nineteenth century. He contended that the decline of cotton weaving...

... near the close of the eighteenth century. In my opinion, the author uses the term “capitalism” too freely. For example, he calls the production of peasant weavers with backstrap looms “capitalistic.” The author then undertakes a detailed description of the obraje and its manufacturing process...

.... For instance he states that weaving of baskets may have been practiced (p. 57), quite missing the fact that one of the last three Pueblo weavers of coiled baskets was alive and weaving in Sia during the period of his study, and he does not mention belt weaving, still extant. White is much more interested...