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...Cliff Welch Since 1988, conflict over land has only intensified in Brazil. The reprimarization process, fetishizing natural resource exploitation, has raised the value of land for grazing, farming, forestry, mining, and investment. Associated interest groups have become staunch opponents of all...

...Kimberly C. Welch Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse . Edited by Paravisini-Gebert Lizabeth and Romero-Cesareo Ivette . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 2001 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . x , 301 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...Cliff Welch Afogados em leis: A CLT e a cultura política dos trabalhadores brasileiros . By French John D. . Translated by Fontes Paulo . História do Povo Brasileiro . São Paulo : Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo , 2001 . Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography . 127 pp...

...Cliff Welch State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America . By Borón Atilio A. . Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers , 1995 . Tables. Figure. Notes. Index . x , 262 pp. Cloth . $49.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The title of this book...

...Cliff Welch A esquerda e o golpe de 64. Vinte e cinco anos depois, as forças populares repensam seus mitos, sonhos, e ilusões . By De Moraes Dênis . Rio de Janeiro : Espaço e Tempo , 1989 . Notes . 379 pp. Paper . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...

...Cliff Welch The book is equally disappointing when it comes to making the women’s case. Their predominance on textile factory commissions is supported primarily by a 1912 census of 31 textile mills and the impressions of various informants. These sources lead Wolfe to assign a sexual identity...

...Cliff Welch Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth Century Brazil . By Richardson Kim . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2011 . Maps. Tables, Notes, Bibliography. Index. xi , 157 pp. Paper . Copyright 2012 by Duke...

...Cliff Welch The book features a lengthy and informative introduction and afterword focused on the story of Carolina’s rise, fall, and posthumous resurrection in Levine’s hands. These chapters draw attention to the book’s significance as a counterweight to Child of the Dark . They also...

...Cliff Welch Unfortunately, readers of From Fanatics to Folk will encounter numerous redundancies, confusing citations, and annoying inconsistencies that could easily have been corrected by a more attentive copyeditor. The book is thoroughly engaging when it takes an ethnographic...

...Clifford A. Welch New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico . Edited by Gledhill John and Schell Patience A. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix , 398 pp. Paper , $28.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Joel Wolfe The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964 . By Welch Cliff . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1999 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxi , 412 pp. Cloth...

...Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Response to Revolution: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 . By Welch Richard E. Jr. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 243 . Cloth. $24.00 . Paper. $9.95 . Copyright...

... Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, brings together in this booklet several reprints, mostly from his magazine, American Opinion , in order to establish his reputation as a prophet in respect to Communists and the spread of Communism. Thirty-four of the ninety-two pages in the little...

...Arthur P. Whitaker An Introduction to the Contemporary History of Latin America . By Oliver Revilo P. . Belmont, Mass. , 1961 . In American Opinion . Vol. IV . No. 5 ( 1961 ). Robert Welch, Inc. Pp. 64 . Paper. $0.50 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962...

... the initiative by means of a hard-line policy on labor. In the meantime, Romualdi’s efforts were rewarded when the Dutra government decided to send representatives to the congress that set up the Inter-American Confederation of Workers in January 1948. Cliff Welch shows, however, that the Inter-American...

... University Press 1988 No Farewell to Arms? Military Disengagement from Politics in Africa and Latin America . By Welch Claude E. Jr. Boulder : Westview Press , 1987 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 224 . Cloth . $33.50 . ...

... and interdisciplinary discussion has made most progress lately. Thus, in 2003 Alexandra Lübcke published a very interesting study about German-Chilean women’s discourse in the nineteenth century (“Welch ein Unterschied aber zwischen Europa und hier . . . ” [Frankfurt am Main: IKO, 2003]). Like Lübcke, who concentrated...

...), and the intersection between coffee and livestock breeding, also in Jamaica (Shepherd and Kathleen E. A. Monteith). Additional chapters examine slave activities in urban settings, including Havana (Evelyn Powell Jennings), Bridgetown, Barbados (Pedro L. V. Welch), and Puerto Rico (Félix V. Matos Rodríguez). Finally...

... Souza. Eight other essays deal with Latin America or the Caribbean. Kimberly Welch competently surveys the politics of race in Cuba during the period surrounding the repression of the Partido Independiente de Color (1912), but the other article on Cuba, Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s study of music...

... in International Politics , by Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, 1998; NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance , edited by Claude E. Welch Jr., 2001; Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights , by Aryeh Neier, 2003; State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina and International...