International Social Science Review articles from March 22 2002

International Social Science Review archives from March 22 2002

The internal economic organization of the Jesuit missions among the Guarani.
March 22, 2002... Jesuit mission activity among the Guarani of Paraguay ranks as one of the most interesting affairs in the annals of colonial Latin America. Conceived as a means to proselytize among the Guarani while protecting them from Sao Paulo slavers and...

The state of education in colonial Virginia.
March 22, 2002... Not all of those living in the South during the colonial and antebellum periods regarded education as an institution in which the North held a monopoly or as an institution that served the needs only of the wealthy. In fact, throughout this...

Guatemala's 1952 Agrarian Reform Law: a critical reassessment.
March 22, 2002... In November 1950, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman won election to the Guatemalan presidency on a reformist platform advocating agrarian reform. The Guatemala that Arbenz inherited suffered from a seeming economic paradox. Compared to its Central American...

Beating a dead horse?: the continuing presence of Frederick Jackson Turner in environmental and western history.
March 22, 2002... In a 1992 review of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Roderick Frazier Nash observed that "as the centennial of his controversial essay on the American frontier approaches in 1993, Frederick Jackson Turner has...

Getting ready for the electrical age: Virginia Tech, General Electric, President McBryde, and the scientists in the 1890s.(early history of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College)
March 22, 2002... The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College had been in existence for almost twenty years when, in 1890, electric lights and an electric power plant were first installed. No one at this small land-grant college in Blacksburg, Virginia,...

Claude Lefort. Writing: the Political Test.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Claude Lefort. Writing: The Political Test. Translated by David Ames Curtis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. XLII+312 pages. Paperback, $18.95. Lefort's title may obscure his purpose. His concern is with the political--with...

Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ed. Varieties of State Crime and Its Control.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ed. Varieties of State Crime and Its Control. Monsey, N.J.: Criminal Justice Press, 2000. Jeffrey Ian Ross has edited another ground breaking volume, the second in a series with the theme of comparative approaches to...

Robert B. Reich. The Future of Success.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Robert B. Reich. The Future of Success. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 289 pages. Robert Reich has written another interpretative essay, this time one that tries to make sense of the modern economy we all participate in but rarely have...

Gilles Bertrand, Anna Michalski, Lucio R. Pench. European Futures: Five Possible Scenarios for 2010.
March 22, 2002... Gilles Bertrand, Anna Michalski, Lucio R. Pench. European Futures: Five Possible Scenarios for 2010. Forward Study Unit, European Commission. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA, 2001. xi+117 pages. $65.00. One of the daunting tasks of...

Larry K. Gaines, Victor E. Kappeler and Joseph B. Vaughn. Policing in America.
March 22, 2002... Larry K. Gaines, Victor E. Kappeler and Joseph B. Vaughn. Policing in America. Cincinnati, Oil: Anderson Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN 0-87084-708-2. 585 pages. Larry K. Gaines, Victor E. Kappeler and Joseph B. Vaughn's Policing in...

Robert Weisbrot. Maximum Danger: Kennedy, the Missiles, and the Crisis of American Confidence.
March 22, 2002... Robert Weisbrot. Maximum Danger: Kennedy, the Missiles, and the Crisis of American Confidence. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. "Not another study on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962," was my first thought upon being asked to review Robert...

Charles Derber. Corporation Nation.(Corporation Nation)
March 22, 2002... Charles Derber. Corporation Nation. New York: St. Martin's Griffin Press, 2000. No price. Corporation Nation by Charles Derber uses the robber baron image of the Gilded Age as a comparison to the leadership and power of large corporations...

Richard Wires. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II.
March 22, 2002... Richard Wires. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in Worm War II. Perspectives on Intelligence History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. xiii+265 pages. $27.95 From times immemorial, there have been spies; they were...