Journal of Latin American Studies articles from May 1993

Journal of Latin American Studies archives from May 1993

The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589.
May 1, 1993... Beatriz Pastor Bodmer, The Amature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492--1589 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. 317, $42.50. This is the second revised publication, but first English-language...

The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus.
May 1, 1993... Unfortunately the weakest part of the book is the opening chapter on Columbus. So much has changed in our understanding of |Columbus' through David Henige's magnificent textual analysis (In Search of Columbus) that her chapter appears...

The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.
May 1, 1993... James Lockhart, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. xv+650, $60.00 The study of indigenous societies in colonial Spanish America, despite an increasing number of monographs dedicated to the subject, remains to a large...

Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology.
May 1, 1993... James Lockhart, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), pp. xiii + 304, $42.50, $18.95 pb. The study of indigenous societies in colonial Spanish America, despite an increasing number of monographs dedicated to the subject,...

Ancient Andean Political Economy.
May 1, 1993... Charles Stanish, (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1992), pp. xi+195, $35.00. In the 1980s, much literature on Andean archaeology dealt with corporate and ceremonial architecture and its role in state formation processes....

Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru.
May 1, 1993... John R. Fisher (ed.), (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), pp. xii + 356, [pound] 16.10. This book, which consists of ten essays, aims to show that the imperial reform programme launched by the Bourbons did...

As Muralhas dos sertoes: os povos indigenas no rio Branco e a colonizacao.
May 1, 1993... Nadia Farage, (Sao Paulo, SP: Editora Paz e Terra, 1991), pp. 1971. Given the potential for trouble between a single colonial power and its nominal Indian subjects, one can only cringe at the terrible hand dealt by history to the Indian...

Between Development and Underdevelopment: The Precocious Attempts at Industrialization of the Periphery, 1800-1870.
May 1, 1993... Jean Batou (ed.), (1800-1870) (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1991), pp. xxvi+438. This volume is one of a series of bilingual publications (in French and English) produced by the Centre of International Economic History of the...

Los trabajadores de Buenos Aires: La experiencia del Mercado, 1850-1880.
May 1, 1993... Hilda Sibato y Luis Alberto Romero (eds.), (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1992), pp. 285. This book describes the salient features and the development of the labour market in the city and province of Buenos Aires between 1850...

Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897.
May 1, 1993... Robert M. Levine, Vale of Tears: (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992), pp. xii + 352, $45.00. Most scholars who have examined Antonio Conselheiro's millenarian community in Bahia's Canudos region have labelled it...

Rural Paraguay: 1870-1932.
May 1, 1993... Jan M. G. Kleinpenning, (Amsterdam: CEDLA Latin American Studies No. 66, 1992), pp. xix + 525, $35.00, DFL. 55. This monograph describes the social and economic development of Paraguay between I870 and 1932, surveys the major aspects...

The Family in Bahia, Brazil: 1870-1945.
May 1, 1993... Dain Borges, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. vi+422, $52.50 Dain Borges has aspired to write a big, interpretative book on the Bahian family during a tumultuous time. He takes as his subject not all families, but...

Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier.
May 1, 1993... Richard W. Slatta, (Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), pp. 271, [pounds] 10.95 p.b. Richard Slatta offers us a paperback edition of his 1983 monograph. Other than a new prologue to this slender volume,...

Patriarchy and Folk: The Emergence of Nicaragua, 1798-1858.
May 1, 1993... E. Bradford Burns, (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. x+307, [pounds] 31.95 E. Bradford Burns brings order to the disorder of Nigaraguan history. This eloquent interpretation of Nicaragua from the...

The Public Sector and the Latin American Crisis.
May 1, 1993... Felipe Larrain and Marcelo Selowsky (eds.), (San Francisco, CA: ICS Press, 99 1), pp. xvi+352, $14.95. The book tells the story of the role of the Latin American public sector in the economic crisis that started openly to affect the...

U.S.-Mexico Relations: Labor Market Interdependence.
May 1, 1993... Jorge A. Bustamante, Clark W. Reynolds and Raul Hinojosa (eds.), (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. xviii+495, $52.50. The value of this book lies in its complete review of labour-market characteristics in Mexico...

Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside: From the Pre-Land Reform Period to the Democratic Transition.
May 1, 1993... Cristobal Kay and Patricio Silva (eds.) (Amsterdam: CEDLA, 1992), pp. xii+326,$33.75, DFL 47.50. This volume contains a set of papers which address different aspects of agrarian development in Chile since the nineteenth century. The...

Alternatives to Deforestation: Steps Toward Sustainable Use of the Amazon Rain Forest.
May 1, 1993... Anthony B. Anderson, (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. xiv+281, $24.00 pb. Anderson's edited collection of papers from a conference held in Belem in 1988 is the most useful and comprehensive of a number of recent...

Reinventer la democratie: le defi latino-americain.
May 1, 1993... Georges Couffignal (ed.), (Paris: Presses de la fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1992) pp. 230, 198 F. The French Association of Social Science on Latin America and the French Association of Political Science held a...

O Futuro do Brasil: A America Latina e o fim da Guerra Fria.
May 1, 1993... Jose Alvaro Moises (ed.), (Rio de janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1992), pp. 191. This collection of short essays on the future of Latin America, following the end of the Cold War, shows Brazilian intellectuals in their most gloomy mood. There...

Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile.
May 1, 1993... Timothy R. Scully, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. xii+287, $42. 50. In what amounts to a vigorous (though not exactly revisionist) rereading of Chilean political history, Timothy R. Scully takes the political...

The Rise of the Professions in Twentieth-Century Mexico: university Graduates and Occupational Change since 1929.
May 1, 1993... David E. Lorey, (Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1992), pp.xvii+232,$17.95 pb. Anyone who has examined Mexican development in the twentieth century, and has searched, often in vain, for comparable and...

Peru under Garcia: An Opportunity Lost.
May 1, 1993... John Crabtree, (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1992), pp. XV + 236, $40-00. John Crabtree's study of Peru under the Garcia government is an excellent and thorough treatment Of a critical...

Peru's APRA: Parties, Politics and the Elusive Quest for Democracy.
May 1, 1993... Carol Graham, Peru's APRA: Parties, Politics, and the Elusive Quest for Democracy (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992), pp. x + 266, $37-50. This is a case-study of Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana...

Les forces politiques en Amerique centrale.
May 1, 1993... Alain Rouquie (ed.), (Paris: Edition Karthala, 1991), pp. 302. This book has come out during a particularly fluid period in Central American politics. With the exception of Costa Rica, and of Honduras up to a point, where the formal party...

Sociologia, storia, positivismo: Messico, Brasile, Argentina e l'Italia.
May 1, 1993... F. Barbano et al. (eds.), (Milano, Italy: Franco Angeli, 1992), pp. 488, L. 56,000. The essays included in this book are the result of a comparative research project on (1) the cultural interactions between Europe (Italy in particular)...

Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico.
May 1, 1993... Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley, (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), pp. XV + 240. This book makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of urban Mexico. It examines a particularly neglected area, that of rental accommodation, and...

Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.
May 1, 1993... Nancy Scheper-Hughes, (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1992), pp. xiii + 614, $29-00. Many will shed a tear or two reading the stories in this book. They are stories of human deprivation in the inner circle of...

The Shining Path of Peru.
May 1, 1993... David Scott Palmer (ed.), (London: C. Hurst and Company, (1992), pp. xxi + 270, 12.75[pounds] In the final chapter of his edited collection David Scott Palmer lists twenty summary conclusions on Sendero Luminoso (SL) drawn from the...

Shining Path: The World's Deadliest Revolutionary Force.
May 1, 1993... Simon Strong, (London: Harper Collins, 1992), pp. xviii + 16.99 [pounds]. In the final chapter of his edited collection David Scott Palmer lists twenty summary conclusions on Sendero Luminoso (SL) drawn from the book's eleven substantive...

Snowfields: The War on Cocaine in the Andes.
May 1, 1993... Clare Hargreaves, (London: Zed Books, 1992), pp. xiii + 202, 32.95 [pounds], 10.95 [pounds] pb. Although Snowfields is subtitled |The war on cocaine in the Andes', its focus is specifically on the internal and international consequences...

Cuban Studies Since the Revolution.
May 1, 1993... Damian J. Fernandez (ed.), (Gainesville, FA: University Press of Florida, 1992), pp. xi + 318, 30.76 [pounds]. This book is based upon presentations given at an April 1990 conference, held at Florida International University, and is...

Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba.
May 1, 1993... Linda Fuller, (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992), pp. XX + 274, $44-95. It is an anomaly that labour relations and the labour movement have not ranked high among the voluminous scholarly studies of the Cuban...

From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940.
May 1, 1993... K. Lynn Stoner, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991), pp. xi + 241, 12.95 [pounds]. This excellently researched volume is an invaluable addition to the historiography of Cuba. To my knowledge, there is no comparable study...

Averting a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race: New Prospects and Challenges for Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation.
May 1, 1993... Paul L. Leventhal and Sharon Tanzer (eds.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with the Nuclear Control Institute, 1992), pp. xiii + 257. The developments which have accompanied the end of the Cold War together with the...

El pensamiento conservador en Chile.
May 1, 1993... Renato Cristi and Carlos Ruiz, (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, S.A., 1992), pp. 163. Studies on Chilean political history have traditionally been dominated by three recurrent themes; the history of political parties, the...

Professions of a Lucky Jew.
May 1, 1993... Benno Weiser Varon, (New York and London: Cornwall Books, 1992), pp. 432, $24-50[pounds], 18.50[pounds]. This is the readable life-story of a man who defies neat pigeon-holing. The author is a former German-speaking refugee and anti-Nazi...

'Puffy, ugly, slothful and inert': degeneration in Brazilian social thought, 1880-1940.
May 1, 1993... Brazilian discussions of race between 1880 and 1940 were partly a use of European scientific theory to rationalise the native system of colour discrimination. When scientific orthodoxy turned against |race' between 1920 and 1945, much of the...

Thinking about current Vatican policy in Central and East Europe and the utility of the 'Brazilian paradigm.'
May 1, 1993... Introduction(1) This text is a preliminary assessment of the potential for comparative and |trans-systemic' study of the current role of the Roman Catholic Church in Central and East Europe.(2) For observers of Vatican policy in world...

The degree of military political autonomy during the Spanish, Argentine and Brazilian transitions.
May 1, 1993... The state of civil-military relations in the world,(1) especially in the Third World, is very well summed up by Mosca's statement that civilian control over the military |is a most fortunate exception in human history'.(2) All over the...

Selling neoliberalism: Brazil's Instituto Liberal.
May 1, 1993... In the 1980s more and more Latin American countries attempted to address daunting economic problems with variations on the so-called neoliberal theme. While one should have expected governments to implement home form of short-term fiscal and...

The 1989 presidential election: electoral behaviour in a Brazilian city.
May 1, 1993... The two and a half years of the Collor de Mello government were marked by so many dramatic events that the significance of the election which made him the first directly elected President in 29 years was not accorded the attention it...

After the frontier: problems with political economy in the modern Brazilian Amazon.
May 1, 1993... The theoretical interpretation of social and economic change in the Brazilian Amazon has been dominated by a political economy in which the notion of the frontier, variously defined, has been central. Brazil is of course not the only country...

Collor, corruption and crisis: time for reflection. (Fernando Collor de Mello)
May 1, 1993... |Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!' (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland) I. The crisis The scandal involving President Fernando Collor de Mello, leading to his last-minute resignation on 29 December 1992, provoked...

Biracial U.S.A. vs. multiracial Brazil: is the contrast still valid?
May 1, 1993... In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has been based on a conventional wisdom. It is the corollary of a larger conventional wisdom in the study of comparative race relations. The thesis is...