Journal of Latin American Studies articles from May 1995

Journal of Latin American Studies archives from May 1995

'Republicanos' and 'la Comunidad de Peruanos': unimagined political communities in postcolonial Andean Peru.
May 1, 1995... The [repartition] lands now belong to the Patria, since dominion had already been acquired by the Comunidad de Peruanos... In any case [the chief] should reinstate the excessive usufruct rents she still holds over various lands of the...

The arrival of the electric streetcar and the conflict over progress in early twentieth-century Montevideo.
May 1, 1995... The opening of the twentieth-century in Montevideo is clearly marked by two public events. First, in the last two months of 1906 an electric streetcar service was inaugurated in this quickly evolving metropolis, the third largest capital city...

Streetcars and politics in Rio de Janeiro: private enterprise versus municipal government in the provision of mass transit, 1903-1920.
May 1, 1995... Latin American cities have a long history of dealing with problems of rapid population growth. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century municipal authorities of large cities, most often capitals, had to deal with the difficulties of...

Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo and liberal radicalism in 1930s Colombia.
May 1, 1995... The first administration of Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo (1934-8), known as the Revolucion en marcha, has proven an enduring theme of historical interest.(1) A Liberal elected unopposed, four years after the collapse of the Conservative regime which...

Maoism in the Andes: the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path and the refusal of history.
May 1, 1995... Our chief is Gonzalo he of brilliant thought and action inspired by Marx, Lenin and Mao he develops our powerful ideology and brings to a burning world the invincible people's war. A hymn of the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path In...

The armed branch of the state: civil-military relations in Mexico.
May 1, 1995... The debate about the magnitude and the rhythm of political change in Mexico over the past years has been reflected in an extensive literature. A great deal of this debate has focused, first, on the political implications of the economic crisis...

A myth rejected: the noble savage in Dominican dystopia. (Dominican Republic)
May 1, 1995... 'Santo Domingo, ciudad primada, crisol de razas y utopias... '(1) These lyrics form a part of the Hymn of the Fifth Centennial, a celebration which proposed to re-examine these races and utopias. But did it re-examine them, or merely confirm...

The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850.
May 1, 1995... The period 1750-1850 in Spanish America serves the historian well as a chronological framework. As the editors of the present work remark, it represents 'a time of transition, beginning with the crisis of the colonial order - from the...

Church and State in Bourbon Mexico: The Diocese of Michoacan, 1749-1810.
May 1, 1995... One of the many attractive trademark features of Brading's work is the deft, half-personal, half-historiographical preface in which the author explains why he wrote this particular book, and why it took the shape that it did. In the case of the...

El Comercio Libre en el Peru: las estrategias de un comerciante criollo: Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Cortes Conde de Premio Real, 1777-1815.
May 1, 1995... Notwithstanding persistent debate about the effects upon the Peruvian economy of the structural changes imposed upon the viceroyalty in the late 1770s - notably the transfer of Upper Peru to the new viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata and the...

Mexico in the Age of Democratic Revolutions: 1750-1850.
May 1, 1995... The period covering the end of the eighteenth century together with the first half of the nineteenth century remains to this day one of the least studied in Mexican history. This is particularly the case with the early national period, or what...

Rural Guatemala: 1760-1940.
May 1, 1995... David McCreery's study of land and labour in Guatemala is an important addition to the literature on agrarian change in Latin America, and one of the finest works we have on the transition to capitalism. Although McCreery is known for his works...

Del poder y la gramatica. Y otros ensayos sobre historia, politica y literatura colombianas.
May 1, 1995... At dawn on 25 August 1984, after a day of tense dialogue with guerrillas in Yumbo and Corinto, Malcolm Deas arrived in Call carrying the drafts of a peace treaty that a government's commission had just negotiated with leaders of the M-19. The...

Cuba la perla de las Antillas: Actas de las I Jornadas sobre 'Cuba y su Historia.'
May 1, 1995... The Ateneo de Madrid, since its foundation as the Ateneo Espanol in 1820, became a centre of debate on developments in Cuba. The interest abated with the end of Spanish colonial rule in 1898 and the Ateneo's switch in focus to the national...

Dos problemas de vital importancia para Mexico: La colonizacion y el desarrollo de la irrigacion.
May 1, 1995... These three books are classic works in the realm of irrigation policies in Mexico. They offer a landscape of the thought of the men who promoted pioneer hydraulic policies in the country during the pre- and post-revolutionary years. Such issues...

El problema de la irrigacion.
May 1, 1995... These three books are classic works in the realm of irrigation policies in Mexico. They offer a landscape of the thought of the men who promoted pioneer hydraulic policies in the country during the pre- and post-revolutionary years. Such issues...

Apuntes sobre irrigacion: Notas sobre su organizacion economica en el extranjero y en el pais.
May 1, 1995... These three books are classic works in the realm of irrigation policies in Mexico. They offer a landscape of the thought of the men who promoted pioneer hydraulic policies in the country during the pre- and post-revolutionary years. Such issues...

The Communist International in Central America: 1920-36.
May 1, 1995... 'The purest and most disdainful opportunism' is Cerdas-Cruz's final judgement on the Communist International's interventions in Central American affairs (p. 179). His book is a blistering indictment of the arrogance, ignorance and sheer...

L'instabilite de l'Amerique latine: le cas bolivien.
May 1, 1995... Jean-Pierre Lavaud addresses the problem of political stability in Latin America, taking political development in Bolivia between the years 1952 and 1982 as his case study. From this analysis of Bolivian society, the book raises important...

Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development.
May 1, 1995... Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have come under the spotlight; their activities in the area of sustainable agricultural development, and specifically organisations working in Latin America, have received less attention, however. Since the...

A Amazonia e a Crise da Modernizacao.
May 1, 1995... A Amazonia e a Crise da Modernizacao is a collection of papers mostly from a 1993 conference of the same name organised in Belem, Para, by the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. It has been produced in record time, meaning that the data and analyses...

Contrapunto: The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America.
May 1, 1995... The phenomenon of the urban informal economy has undoubtedly been one of the most discussed problems of Latin America in the 1980s. The present book assembles a series of articles that bear witness to the richness of this debate, which began in...

Organised Labor in Venezuela, 1958-1991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic Setting.
May 1, 1995... Steve Ellner has made an invaluable contribution to the study of modern Venezuelan politics, and this recent book continues with his balanced, informative style of analysis. Above all he is concerned in this account of Venezuelan labour to...

Canada and Latin American Security.
May 1, 1995... These books examine some of the major changes that have occurred in the international relations of the western hemisphere over the past ten years. The first two (by Klepak and Rochlin) analyse the dramatic shift that has taken place in Canadian...

Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America.
May 1, 1995... These books examine some of the major changes that have occurred in the international relations of the western hemisphere over the past ten years. The first two (by Klepak and Rochlin) analyse the dramatic shift that has taken place in Canadian...

The Challenge of Integration: Europe and the Americas.
May 1, 1995... These books examine some of the major changes that have occurred in the international relations of the western hemisphere over the past ten years. The first two (by Klepak and Rochlin) analyse the dramatic shift that has taken place in Canadian...

Medidas de confianza mutua en America Latina.
May 1, 1995... These books examine some of the major changes that have occurred in the international relations of the western hemisphere over the past ten years. The first two (by Klepak and Rochlin) analyse the dramatic shift that has taken place in Canadian...

Defensa nacional, Chile, 1990-1994: Modernizacon y desarrollo.
May 1, 1995... These books examine some of the major changes that have occurred in the international relations of the western hemisphere over the past ten years. The first two (by Klepak and Rochlin) analyse the dramatic shift that has taken place in Canadian...

Democratic Transition and Human Rights: Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy.
May 1, 1995... Examining the impact of US foreign policy on the revolutionary transitions from repressive to democratic rule in Iran, Nicaragua and the Philippines, Steinmetz attempts to determine 'if and how human rights policies, or their neglect, have led...

Caribbean Maritime Security.
May 1, 1995... The book under review could just as easily have been titled Everything You Wanted to Know about Caribbean Maritime Security but Didn't Know Whom to Ask. The author has identified a significant hole in the literature on Latin American and...

Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War.
May 1, 1995... This book is really two books. One is an analysis of the state of the contemporary left in Latin America. The other is rather more prescriptive: it attempts to detail the kind of programme that would be appropriate for the contemporary left...

The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation.
May 1, 1995... There has in the recent past been a striking convergence in the criticisms directed by traditional conservatives and postmodern radicals at the classical left: both have complained of the left's authoritarianism, its arrogance, its failure to...

Rumor de Sabres: Controle civil ou tutela militar. Estudo comparativo das transicoes democraticas no Brasil, na Argentina e na Espanha.
May 1, 1995... This comparison of civil-military relations in the democratisation process in Argentina, Brazil and Spain originates from doctoral work supervised at the University of Chicago by Adam Przeworski. After a brief introduction, Zaverucha offers...

Democracy and Poverty in Chile: The Limits to Electoral Politics.
May 1, 1995... Petras and Leiva offer a Sobering counterpoint to the predominant view of the Chilean 'miracle'. They remind us that the model's success entailed tremendous costs that included not only unprecedented human rights abuses, but dramatic increases...

Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua: Opposition and Accommodation, 1979-1993.
May 1, 1995... The broad social base of the Sandinista revolution was one of its great strengths and weaknesses. The Nicaraguan bourgeoisie, once described by moderate Sandinista Sergio Ramirez as 'survivors of the shipwreck' of the somocista state, developed...

Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba.
May 1, 1995... Moulding the new 'conciencia' was one of Fidel Castro's leading revolutionary goals. This point was made in 1969 by Richard Fagen, who appeared confident at the time that cultural change would come readily. Bunck's recent study challenges this...

Fidel Castro's Political and Social Thought.
May 1, 1995... Moulding the new 'conciencia' was one of Fidel Castro's leading revolutionary goals. This point was made in 1969 by Richard Fagen, who appeared confident at the time that cultural change would come readily. Bunck's recent study challenges this...

The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality.
May 1, 1995... What else is left to be said about revolutionary Cuba? How many times need we be told about the emergence, crystallisation, and decay of the Cuban revolutionary regime? How many narratives can describe one of the more improbable events of this...

Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro.
May 1, 1995... What else is left to be said about revolutionary Cuba? How many times need we be told about the emergence, crystallisation, and decay of the Cuban revolutionary regime? How many narratives can describe one of the more improbable events of this...

The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues.
May 1, 1995... Without doubt Elena Poniatowska's work centres on dialogue, partly with other people and partly with herself, and it is precisely as a 'dialogic creative process' that this book maps out Poniatowska's personal trajectory from naivety to social...

Utopia Undone: The Fall of Uruguay in the Novels of Carlos Martinez Moreno.
May 1, 1995... In Utopia Undone, Kenton Stone studies the nine novels of the Uruguayan writer Carlos Martinez Moreno (1917-86), a permanent contributor for the weekly journal Marcha (Montevideo, 1939-74), as well as a Public Defender and a respected political...

Information Technology for Latin Americanists.
May 1, 1995... The authors have produced a handy manual for scholars motivated to access the world of electronic communication, but at a loss as to how to proceed. They recognise that a major hindrance separating established professionals from the latest...