Journal of Latin American Studies articles from February 1993

Journal of Latin American Studies archives from February 1993

The new face of Latin America: financial flows, markets and institutions in the 1990s.
February 1, 1993... The gains and difficulties Latin American countries face from financial market development and liberalisation have received much attention in current economic literature. Nevertheless, significant issues have received little or no attention,...

Water and bureaucracy in colonial Puebla de los Angeles. (Mexico)
February 1, 1993... Although most urban dwellers take for granted the running water accessible to them in their homes, its presence is the culmination of the long |conquest of water'.(2) In effect, there are still minorities or even majorities in some Latin...

Getting to know the unknown soldier: official nationalism in liberal Costa Rica, 1880-1900.
February 1, 1993... On 28 February 1885 Guatemala's Liberal dictator, Justo Rufino Barrios, declared the Union of Central America, and made it plain that this would be achieved through force of arms if the four other Central American Republics did not consent to...

State and labour in Argentina: the portworkers of Buenos Aires, 1910-21.
February 1, 1993... Latin America's workers perplex historians. Despite chronic political turmoil, revolt and undiluted class conflict, Latin America's mobilised workers have not been the vanguards of social revolution. Rather, variations of authoritarianism,...

The social and political integration of West Indians in Costa Rica: 1930-1950.
February 1, 1993... People of African descent in Costa Rica form a marginalised and geographically concentrated minority group. The limited interest that academics have shown towards people of African descent is a reflection of their position in Costa Rican...

Risk and opportunity in the coca/cocaine economy of the Bolivian Yungas.
February 1, 1993... Bolivia(1) is one of the poorest countries of the hemisphere and its rural people have among the lowest life expectancy, health-care standards and educational levels of all Latin Americans. It is the only country in South America with a...

Simon Bolivar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean conceptions of the patria in nineteenth-century Potosi. (Bolivia)
February 1, 1993... |Era todavia desmasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazon elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.'(1) Introduction How did the indian majority in...

The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 8, Latin America Since 1930: Spanish South America.
February 1, 1993... Leslie Bethell (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xv + 919, $89.50, 70.00[pounds]. Beginning in 1984, the volumes of the Cambridge History of Latin America have been appearing at a steady pace. As the series...

Caudillos in Spanish America: 1800-1830.
February 1, 1993... John Lynch, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. xvii+468, 50.00[pounds]. The scholarly literature on caudillismo has been deficient. On the one hand, we have a number of relatively brief schematic formulations, without much specific...

The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767.
February 1, 1993... Robert J. Ferry, (Berkeley, CA and London: University of California Press, 1991), pp. x+342, $45.10. The study of colonial elites is significant in itself and as a key to other aspects of colonial history, such as creole identity, access...

Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development.
February 1, 1993... Patrick J. Carroll, (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1991), pp. xv + 240, $35.00. For much of the early colonial period Blacks outnumbered Whites in New Spain. One reguon of Mexico which developed an early dependence on Black...

Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900.
February 1, 1993... Muriel Nazzari, Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), pp. xx + 245, $35-10. From the dense and often voluminous estate inventories or probate records that Sao...

La Yerba Mate del Paraguay (1780-1870).
February 1, 1993... Thomas Whigham, La Yerba Mate del Paraguay (1780-1870) (Asuncion: Centro Paraguayo de Estudios Sociologicos, 1991), pp. 152. The River Plate area is often mistakenly made synonymous with the pampas. Buenos Aires and its grasslands...

The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870.
February 1, 1993... Upper Plata, 1780-1870 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991), xviii + 274, $50.00. The River Plate area is often mistakenly made synonymous with the pampas. Buenos Aires and its grasslands dominate the region's...

Colombian Consequences, vol. 3, The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective.
February 1, 1993... David Hurst Thomas, Volume 3 The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), pp. xxii + 592, $45.00. Latin Americanists have generally shown little interest in the Spanish...

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500-1821.
February 1, 1993... George W. Lovell, A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500-1821 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992), pp. x + 279, 14.95 [pounds]. This is a revised edition of an excellent case study in historical geography....

Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina.
February 1, 1993... Donna J. Guy, Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), pp. ix + 260, $35.00. This is not just a history of prostitution in Argentina but |an attempt to integrate gender into Argentine...

The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System.
February 1, 1993... Thomas D. Schoonover, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992), pp. xiv + 253, 29.95 [pounds]. Thomas Schoonover's analysis of Central America's...

Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916.
February 1, 1993... Todd A. Diacon, Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.), pp. xii + 199, 40.40 [pounds], 15.95 [pounds] pb. Todd Diacon's central argument is that the Contestado millenarian rebellion was provoked by the simultaneous breakdown of the...

The 'Nazi Menace' in Argentina, 1931-1947.
February 1, 1993... Ronald C. Newton, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. xx + 520, $49.50. The author sums up his intentions in writing this book in the question | Just what were the Nazis up to in Argentina, anyway?' At times his answer...

Los origines del reformismo militar en America Latina: La gestion de David Toro en Bolivia.
February 1, 1993... Ferran Gallego, Barcelona, 1991), pp. 225. Running parallel with the emergence in Europe of totalitarian regimes, led by charismatic and ostentatious political leaders (Mussolini, Hitler, Franco), Latin America saw the rise in its midst,...

Economic Nationalism in East-Central Europe and South America: 1918-1939.
February 1, 1993... Henryk Szlajfer (ed.), (Geneva: Droz, 1990), pp. 289. These two works, in a new series directed by Paul Bairoch, share the premise of the dependency school that development and underdevelopment are related processes. Both are of interest...

One Hundred Years of Resistance to Underdevelopment: 1770-1870.
February 1, 1993... Jean Batou, (Geneva: Droz, 1990), pp. 575. These two works, in a new series directed by Paul Bairoch, share the premise of the dependency school that development and underdevelopment are related processes. Both are of interest to readers...

Transport et Commerce en Amerique Latine.
February 1, 1993... Frederic Mauro and Soline Alemany (eds.), (Paris: l'Harmattan, 1990), pp. 277. Anyone who has edited a collection of essays will sympathise with the problems. One spends hours worrying how to improve a paper without offending the author,...

Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts.
February 1, 1993... Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992), pp. xxiii + 326, 26.95[pounds]. This is precisely the book that I have been waiting for. It is completely up to date, it deals with the most important questions, and...

Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990.
February 1, 1993... Laura J. Enriquez, Harvesting (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991), pp. xvii + 252, $41-25, $14.25 pb. Agrarian policy was the most contentious terrain in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas as well as during the...

Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe.
February 1, 1993... John Higley and Richard Gunther (eds.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xiv + 354, $49-95, $16.95 pb., 40.00[pounds], 13.95[pounds] pb. This volume makes a fine contribution to the recent work on democratisation. It...

Les revolutions d'Amerique Latine.
February 1, 1993... Pierre Vayssiere, (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1991), pp. 409. The book is an ambitious review of the revolutionary tradition in the history of Latin America since the wars of independence. Vayssiere begins with a brief discussion of the...

Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America.
February 1, 1993... Richard L. Harris, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), pp. xii + 234, 11.50[pounds] pb. This book focuses on four cases of social and political transformation in Latin America--Chile's short experience under Allende's Unidad Popular (UP),...

Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina.
February 1, 1993... Kathryn Sikkink, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. xviii + 263, $35.00. Kathryn Sikkink undertakes a two-fold project in her study of |developmentalism', the economic development model popular in Latin America in the...

Negotiating Democracy: Politicians and Generals in Uruguay.
February 1, 1993... Charles Guy Gillespie, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.), pp. xiii+264, $49-51, 30.00[pounds]. While Uruguay is one of Latin America's smallest nations its political experience offers important theoretical insights into...

Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation.
February 1, 1993... Sandor Halebsky and John M. Kirk (eds.), (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.), pp. xi+224, 12.95[pounds], pb. This is the second selection of papers to be published from the international conference, |Thirty Years of the Cuban Revolution: An...

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua.
February 1, 1993... Thomas W. Walker (ed.), (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. x+421, 14.95[pounds] pb. Befitting Spanish tradition, Thomas Walker is a steadfast chronicler of the Sandinista Revolution. Over the past decade he has compiled and edited five...

Ignacio: The Diary of a Maya Indian of Guatemala.
February 1, 1993... James D. Sexton (trans. and ed.), (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), pp. xii+315, $39.95, $16.95 pb. This is the third instalment of the diary kept by Ignacio, a Tzutuhil Maya, since 1977. Covering 1983-7, Ignacio...

Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia.
February 1, 1993... Peter Gow, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. x+331, 40.00[pounds]. The author adopts a point of view which goes beyond the opposition between tradition and modernity, and declares that he does not share the nostalgia of those...

Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador.
February 1, 1993... Gregory Knapp, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991), pp. xv+220, $35.50. The aim of this work is prediction, or rather retrodiction, of past small farmer landscapes in the Andes of Central and Northern Ecuador. It establishes a model...

B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico.
February 1, 1993... Heidi Zogbaum, (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1992), pp. xiii+255, $24.95. Hitherto most writing about B. Traven has concentrated upon unravelling the enigmatic identity concealed behind the pen-name. Now, more ambitiously, in this...