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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Role of Andean Bezoar Stones during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Stephenson, M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Introducing intertwined themes of profit, the hunt for treasure, and the excavation of camelid bodies; and drawing from the analysis of Renaissance medical books, bilingual Aymara–Spanish and Quechua–Spanish dictionaries, inquisition records, and inventories of curiosity cabinets, this essay considers how Peruvian bezoar stones acquired transatlantic importance following their discovery in 1568 by a Spanish soldier. In spite of its less-than-glamorous physiological genesis as a calcinated concretion formed in the digestive tract of ruminants, including the four species of Andean camelids, the bezoar stone played a significant yet academically overlooked role in the social and economic history of modern Europe and Spanish America for its use as an antidote to poisons, and the stones constituted one of the most sought-after objects for the fashionable cabinets of curiosities belonging to Europe's powerful elites. However, for indigenous pastoral peoples, bezoars were central to the reproduction of native cultural practices and directly linked to the foundational myths of Andean cosmology. The stones were believed to protect the herds and the shepherds, for whom the camelids represented the primary source of wealth. Consequently, the bezoar stone takes on unforeseen significance as a neglected site where the colonial drama of competing epistemologies was enacted.

Undressing the Coya and Dressing the Indian Woman: Market Economy, Clothing, and Identities in the Colonial Andes, La Plata (Charcas), Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Presta, A. M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

This essay addresses the specific indigenous identity of Indian women resettled in colonial La Plata, particularly those associated with mercantile trades and consequently involved in the creation of colonial markets. The search for Indian women's urban identities rests upon the material culture associated with labor activities and social standing among those recently settled in the Spanish urban milieu. Objects and places, goods and spaces can be manipulated, reappropriated, and reinterpreted by new social actors on their road to history. Things have meaning and are bound to culture and identity. In this way, indigenous women's dress and adornment are associated with the dramatic changes brought about by the new mercantile economy introduced by the Spaniards. Indian women who resettled in the city and gained economic success pursuing mercantile trades adopted distinctive components of female dress. These styles evoked both the recent Inca past and certain elements of Spanish attire and adornment that forged a specific identity associated with a specific trade, asserting a newly acquired status in the emerging colonial society

Food Politics and Consumption in Peronist Argentina

Milanesio, N. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

From the beginning of Juan Domingo Perón's administration, food consumption was both a significant object of state policy and a central component of official propaganda. This essay resists the analytical separation between politics and imaginaries in order to expand our understanding of Peronism in new directions. First, it shows the economic, political, and iconographic centrality of food for state planning, commercial culture, public health, and definitions of social, national, and physical well-being. Second, the essay reinterprets nationalism and social entitlement—concepts that researchers have identified as key in Peronist ideology—through a new focus on food. An increase in per capita beef consumption, beyond serving as a symbol of popular well-being, undermined the images of Argentina as an export economy subservient to foreign capitalism. By favoring internal consumers over external markets, Peronist beef politics created an empowering ideology of economic sovereignty. This ideology reinforced the commitment of the state to benefit the local population in the distribution of national wealth. Between 1946 and 1949, the government popularized the rise in beef intake as the new entitlement of the working classes to what had previously been a "luxury food." Finally, the analysis demonstrates that Peronism collected and instrumentally continued or redefined key arguments circulating in Argentine popular culture and medical and leftist discourses, including the relation of beef consumption to nationalism, luxury, rights, and health; the intervention of the state in nutritional issues; the dietary education of the masses; and the connection between nationalism, tradition, and culinary culture.

How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sao Paulo, Brazil

French, J. D. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Extensive interviews and confidential police and judicial records are used to explore the life of Marcos Andreotti (1910–1984), a lifelong Communist labor leader active in the industrial ABC region of greater São Paulo. The intensified persecution faced by Andreotti in the early Cold War years is placed within the trajectory of Andreotti's working life as a skilled electrician. The labor market demand for skilled workers, it is shown, provided the foundation for Andreotti's sustained militancy and decisively shaped his philosophy of shop floor organizing based on a dialectic between the skilled and the unskilled. This essay sheds new light on the poorly understood foundations of working-class political and labor militancy, while highlighting unexpected continuities between the era of Andreotti, before 1964, and the world of the "New Unionism" in the late 1970s, which began in ABC under the leadership of Brazil's current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule

Gillespie, S. D. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Sublevando el virreinato: Documentos contestatarios a la historiografia tradicional del Peru colonial

Ramirez, S. E. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

Duffy, E. M., Metcalf, A. C. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Jacinto Ventura de Molina y los caminos de la escritura negra en el Rio de la Plata

Chamosa, O. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought: An Anthology

Tato, M. I. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios

Brungardt, M. P. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and Its Empire, 1759 - 1808

Berquist, E. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico

Pardo, O. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

L'evangelisation des Indiens du Mexique: Impact et realite de la conquete spirituelle (XVIe siecle)

Balutet, N. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca

Owensby, B. P. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico

Chowning, M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Sociedad, economia y cultura material: Historia urbana de Panama la Vieja

Lasso, M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru's South Sea Metropolis

Brown, K. W. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Los vencedores: Historia del pueblo mapuche en la epoca colonial

Gascon, M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

Broussard, R. F. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far

Duarte, A. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817 - 1850

Paquette, G. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Pueblos y soberania en la revolucion artiguista: La region de Santo Domingo Soriano desde fines de la colonia a la ocupacion portuguesa

Djenderedjian, J. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Mala guerra: Los indigenas en la Guerra del Chaco (1932 - 1935)

Jackson, R. H. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay

Chesterton, B. M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Denle duro que no siente: Poder y transgresion en el Peru republicano

Klaren, P. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Nacionales y gremialistas: El "parto" de la nueva derecha politica chilena, 1964 - 1973

Klubock, T. M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Dictatorship and Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal, and Survival in Venezuela, 1908 - 1935

Levine, D. H. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression and Memory in El Salvador, 1920 - 1932

Ching, E. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham

Radding, C. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons

Gonzales, M. J. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early Industrialization

Marquez, G. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920 - 1940

Lopez, R. A. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Limoncic, F. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:03 PST

An Environmental History of Latin America

Mccook, S. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900 - 1930

Bockelman, B. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans

Szurmuk, M. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture

Kanter, D. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World

Tomich, D. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Marak, A. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, 1692 - 1968

Lewis, J. A. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War

Mcpherson, A. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

Foster, D. W. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

La diplomacia estadounidense durante la Guerra de la Triple Alianza: Escritos escogidos de Charles Ames Washburn sobre el Paraguay, 1861 - 1871

Wilcox, R. W. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:04:04 PST

The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901 - 1986

Love, J. L. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:55:45 PST

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:35 PDT

In This Issue

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:35 PDT

Mexico's Superior Health Council and the American Public Health Association: The Transnational Archive of Porfirian Public Health, 1887-1910

Ross, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:35 PDT

In the late nineteenth century, Mexico's Superior Health Council devised a consistent and assertive international strategy around alignment with international scientific standards, the control of disease certification on Mexican soil by Mexican experts, transparent disease reporting, internationally demonstrated competence in campaigns against tropical disease, and participation in multilateral health agreements. The council came to command a central role in the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1877–1911), mainly because this international strategy enabled a successful defense of Mexican sovereignty. In the arena of public health, the council, led by Eduardo Licéaga, came close to realizing the Científicos' dream of Mexican development "without U.S. investment." This was largely because the council obtained independent access to European ideas and technologies prior to its engagement with the United States, which began in 1890 when the first Mexican delegation attended the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Through a persistent and creative diplomatic campaign, taking advantage of relationships cultivated through the APHA, Porfirio Díaz's sanitary advisors persuaded many of their American counterparts that Mexican experts could be trusted partners in defending the health of the western hemisphere. The article describes the Atlantic world of Mexican medicine in the nineteenth century, the significance of public health within a context shaped by rising U.S. imperialism, the key role played by Licéaga, and Mexico's participation in the APHA.

Other Americas: Transnationalism, Scholarship, and the Culture of Poverty in Mexico and the United States

Rosemblatt, K. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The anthropologist Oscar Lewis first used the term "culture of poverty" in a 1959 article on Mexico. Within months, the idea that the poor had a distinct culture became part of a passionate, decade-long, worldwide debate about poverty. Scholars, policy makers, and broader publics discussed what caused poverty and how to remedy it. How entrenched were the class and racial differences that led to poverty? How did those differences affect a country's standing in the community of nations? This article tracks the concept of a culture of poverty as a way of probing the reciprocal, if unequal, connections between Mexico and the United States and their relation to national narratives and policy debates. It tracks how Lewis's formulation of a culture of poverty drew on his training as an anthropologist in the United States, his extensive dialogue with Mexican intellectuals, and his fieldwork in Mexico. It also shows how Lewis and others reformulated the notion in response to intense public controversies in Mexico and Puerto Rico; the vehement U.S. discussions surrounding the War on Poverty and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the Negro family, and larger events such as the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. civil rights movement, decolonization, the Vietnam War, and second-wave feminism.

History and the Contours of Meaning: The Abjection of Luisa Nevarez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905

del Carmen Baerga-Santini, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The article analyzes the case of Luisa Nevárez, the first woman condemned to the gallows in Puerto Rico at the beginning of the twentieth century. Convicted for the killing of her almost year-old daughter, she never admitted the crime nor showed any remorse. Yet, Luisa did not make an easy transition into the sphere of the criminal. The nascent identity that was being forged in early twentieth-century Puerto Rico configured the delinquent as a masculine subject who was acknowledged as possessing intellectual malice and the capacity for social action. Luisa's condition as a woman, mother, and mulatta, her ignorance, and other factors deprived her of any possibility of entering the space of the criminal subject. Instead, the figure of Luisa oscillated between monster and madwoman in the discourses of the time. Around the mid-twentieth century her discursive figure emerges again, this time in the authorized voices of those concerned with criminal activities on the island. In this context, we find her embodying the prototype of the criminal woman: degenerate, ugly, black, and sexually insatiable. It is Luisa's abject condition that places her on the threshold of history and on the borders of the intelligible. However, the impossibility of explaining her actions in a rational way constitutes a formidable challenge for the historian. In this respect, the article is also a reflection on the limits and possibilities of the representative faculties of the historical narrative.

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

Gasco, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

El criollo como voluntad y representacion

Galvez-Pena, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Fernandez de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: A New History for a New World

Seed, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Treatise on Slavery: Selections from "De instauranda Aethiopum salute."

Morgan, R. J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies

Resendez, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

Turits, R. L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Another Face of Empire: Bartolome de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism

Villa-Flores, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

Schorsch, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Misiones en Chile austral: Los Jesuitas en Chiloe, 1608-1768

Gascon, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Una caida anunciada: El obispo Torre y los jesuitas del Rio de la Plata (1757-1773)

de Zappia, S. L. D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Ciudad y poder: La construccion material y simbolica del Montevideo colonial (1723-1810)

Caviedes, C. N. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

Fisher, A. B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

Vinson, B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

La musica y el Atlantico: Relaciones musicales entre Espana y Latinoamerica

Ramos-Kittrell, J. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

Deans-Smith, S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas

Rothman, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

La fiesta de la independencia en Costa Rica, 1821-1921

Goebel, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Cayeyanos: Familias y solidaridades en la historia de Cayey

Schmidt-Nowara, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Proletarios de casaca: Trabalhadores do comercio carioca (1850-1911)

Chazkel, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Dar a luz en Chile, siglo XIX: De la "ciencia de hembra" a la ciencia obstetrica

Rosemblatt, K. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930

Robert, K. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Wood, A. G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Una vida agonica: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre: Testimonio de parte

Garcia-Bryce, I. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present: Essays

Thurner, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chavez Phenomenon

McBeth, B. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century

Lewis, S. E. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino's Challenge to Christian Theology

Sullivan-Gonzalez, D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil

Lazar, S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society

Sedrez, L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Yucatan in an Era of Globalization

Hostettler, U. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Comanche Empire

Cutter, C. R. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures

Bronfman, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Los retos de la diferencia: Los actores de la multiculturalidad entre Mexico y Colombia

Ramos-Escandon, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

El Fondo Monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina: Liberalismo, populismo y finanzas internacionales

Roman, J. A. S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America

Armus, D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Jose Limon and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance

Leyva, Y. C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

Fraser, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Vanderwood, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Packaged Vacations: Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean

Little, W. E. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization

Moberg, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:26:36 PDT

Contributors

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

In This Issue

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

"The Tyrant Is Dead!" The Revolt of the Periquitos in Bahia, 1824

Reis, J. J., Kraay, H. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

This article analyzes politics in the Brazilian province of Bahia from mid-1823 when Portuguese troops were expelled from the capital of Salvador to early 1825. During this time many opposed the province's adhesion to the increasingly authoritarian monarchy of Pedro I established in Rio de Janeiro in 1822. It focuses on the October–November 1824 rebellion of the Periquitos battalion and the other manifestations of social and political unrest of these years. These radical liberal movements expressed many Bahians' mistrust of the monarch, particularly after he closed the constituent assembly in November 1823 and imposed a constitution in March 1824. They also evinced strong sympathy with the Confederação do Equador rebellion centered in Pernambuco, although the Bahian movements failed to establish a formal connection with that province's resistance to the emperor. Bahia's radical liberals drew strong support from the nonwhite lower classes in the city of Salvador and from the army rank and file. These popular movements reveal the widespread appeal of the radical liberal program. The repression that followed these movements indicates that the Bahian planter class accepted the centralized monarchy as a guarantor of social order and abandoned its desire for greater control over local affairs.

The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870-1920)

Loveman, M. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and policy prescription in the name of national progress. This article examines how one such agency, Brazil's Directoria Geral de Estatística, worked to simultaneously measure and promote national progress from 1870 to 1920. The article documents a fundamental shift in this period in the DGE's vision of the qualities of the population essential for Brazil's progress as a nation. In the 1870s, the DGE saw educational statistics as the key measures of national progress and lobbied for government investment in primary schools to ensure the advancement of the nation. By the 1920s, the DGE looked instead to immigration and racial statistics to measure progress and advocated cultural and biological "whitening" of the population to improve the Brazilian nation. Analysis of a broad range of archival and published primary sources reveals the gradual racialization of the DGE's institutional definition of "progress." The study contributes to a growing body of research that examines how racial thought influenced the development and official practices of state agencies in Latin America.

The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identification in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560-1640

Graubart, K. B. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the "indio solarero" and the "indio criollo." These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties or with their approval, suggest that these residents were inventing new roles for themselves and took pains to bring attention to their new social positions as property-owners ("solarero," or owner of a solar), Spanish speakers, Catholics, and city dwellers ("criollo," or born in the city rather than in a rural community). The indigenous men and women who utilized these terms had accumulated some of the social markers of colonial success—real estate, slaves, imported clothing, language, religion—and while they may have been few in number and unlikely to turn their world upside down, they saw themselves as having achieved according to the new standards that they embraced, whether slightly or wholeheartedly. By identifying and understanding the idiosyncratic language they used to identify themselves (as opposed to labels such as "Indian" placed upon them by outsiders), the article approaches the possibility of gaining access to the mentalité of these urban colonial residents.

Historia antigua del Pais Imbaya

Scott, J. F. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society

Derby, L. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus

Hulme, P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Revolution

Racine, K. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

Delpar, H. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:06 PDT

Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975

Langley, L. D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked across America in the Sixteenth Century

Ewen, C. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada

Folsom, R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico

Zambrana, A. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Gestores de la real justicia: Procuradores y agentes de las catedrales hispanas nuevas en la corte de Madrid

Owens, J. B. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Cuban Convents in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761-1807

Leonard, V. W. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military in Late Colonial Peru

Chiaramonti, G. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Pelo Vaso Traseiro: Sodomy and Sodomites in Luso-Brazilian History

Foster, D. W. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco

Sloan, K. A. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

O idioma da mesticagem: As irmandades de pardos na America portuguesa

Graden, D. T. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Diabolism in Colonial Peru: 1560-1750

Millones, L. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

Gembero, M. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795-1873

Kiddy, E. W. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic

Kraay, H. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930

Sanders, N. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Comunidades negras en el Pacifico colombiano: Innovaciones y dinamicas etnicas

Leal, C. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Lucamba: Herencia africana en el tango, 1870-1890

Andrews, G. R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

La ciudad impura: Salud, tuberculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950

Ablard, J. D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Las politicas sociales en perspectiva historica: Argentina, 1870-1952

Alonso, P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973

Bergero, A. J. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

Ruiz, V. P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

Lapegna, P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492

Santiago, M. I. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950

Boyer, C. R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

A Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests

Dwyer, J. J. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico

Camp, R. A. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era

Coral, E. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985

Frye, D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Partidos politicos, elecciones y lealtades partidarias en Costa Rica: Erosion y cambio

Lehoucq, F. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980-1997

Mcclintock, C. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

Colby, J. M. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race

Behnken, B. D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism

Buscaglia-Salgado, J. F. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey Wife No. 1, or, A Tale of Two Amies

Hoefte, R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Que se queden alla: El gobierno de Mexico y la repatriacion de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940)

Jones, H. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War

Weeks, G. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964-1974

Sater, W. F. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:56:07 PDT

Contributors

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In This Issue

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Acerca de la relacion entre el Radicalismo argentino y la "clase media" (una vez mas)

Adamovsky, E. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Es una creencia profundamente arraigada en el sentido común que la Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) –el más antiguo de los partidos políticos argentinos– canalizó los intereses de una "clase media" que, según se afirma, experimentó un crecimiento notable a partir de fines del siglo XIX de la mano de un proceso de "modernización". Más aún, el caso de los radicales argentinos ha sido utilizado como ejemplo de procesos y tensiones de la modernización que afectaron a todo el subcontinente. En los últimos tiempos, el papel de la clase media en América Latina viene siendo reexaminado. La propia utilización de los conceptos de "clase media" y de "modernización" ha sido objeto de análisis críticos. En estudios recientes, la clase media viene dejando de ser una entidad cuya existencia social se presupone, para convertirse en un tipo de identidad específica cuya emergencia es necesario explicar. El objetivo de este artículo es contribuir al debate analizando los modos en los que la UCR pudo haber participado en la constitución de una "clase media" en Argentina, y los contextos políticos específicos en los que esto tuvo lugar. Sostendremos que, más que canalizar los intereses de una clase media previamente existente, la UCR contribuyó a la formación de tal identidad social mediante apelaciones discursivas motivadas más por necesidades y oportunidades político-ideológicas que por una vocación de vehiculizar intereses sectoriales particulares.

Economic Elites, Regional Cleavages, and the First Attempts at Introducing the Income Tax in Argentina

Roman, J. A. S. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

This article analyzes Minister Víctor Molina's 1924 income tax proposal, one of the first attempts to introduce this tax in Argentina, and explores the reasons for its failure. Argentine governments did not show a permanent commitment to fiscal reform during the 1920's, mainly because the economic situation was not dire and the Treasury was able to finance its deficits through foreign debts due to the good performance of Argentine external sector. Nonetheless, Molina's proposal was passed by the Chamber of Deputies and therefore it could have been the first income tax law in the country. Public opinion, intellectuals, and economists seemed to be persuaded that income tax was the solution to Argentine fiscal problems. Moreover, some key social sectors like rural or industrial entrepreneurs, without enthusiastically supporting the income tax, were disposed to tolerate it. In this article, I argue that we need a political interpretation of the failure of tax reform during 1920s. Molina's draft was blocked in the Senate by the majority of the representatives of the interior provinces. In fact, income tax was considered to be a threat to the less affluent provinces of Argentina because it implied a step toward tax centralization and unification. Yet the economic weakness of the interior did not imply political weakness, and the interior provinces were the main obstacle to fiscal reform in Argentina until the 1930s.

Political Conflict and Power Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

Mazzuca, S., Robinson, J. A. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

After a long period of chaos, political order in Colombia emerged in the mid-1900s. This transition was driven by a change in the institutional allocation of political power. After the Thousand Days' War, Colombia's two parties agreed to share power by means of a new set of electoral rules. The incomplete vote, the cornerstone of the new electoral rules, was a strategic concession by the Conservative government to the Liberal opposition. In exchange for permanent representation in the legislatures, Liberals abandoned military insurrection as a political strategy. Transition to proportional representation was completed in 1929 with the introduction of the quotient rule. The quotient rule was also a concession from the government. However, it was not driven by Liberalism's potential military power but by the institutional power that Liberalism had accumulated since the first concession.

Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time

Biro, P. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Rabinal Achi: A Fifteenth-Century Maya Dynastic Drama

Hamann, B. E. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography

Carmack, R. M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848

Bell, S. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Sociologia Guatemalteca: El problema social del indio

Millar, M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Reframing Latin America: A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Chamosa, O. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Historical Dictionary of United States-Latin American Relations

Lehman, K. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative

Canizares-Esguerra, J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Religion in New Spain

Cline, S. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650

Szeminski, J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

El "premio" de ser virrey: Los intereses publicos y privados del gobierno virreinal en el Peru de Felipe V

Burns, K. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Emporios transpacificos: Comerciantes mexicanos en Manila, 1710-1815

Souto, M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Une ville entre deux mondes: Trujillo d'Espagne et les Indes au XVIe siecle

Ruiz, T. F. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America

Milton, C. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

Socolow, S. M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Mujeres indias y senores de la coca: Potosi y Cuzco en el siglo XVI

Garofalo, L. J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863

Cummins, V. H. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

Dym, J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Nacion y nacionalismo en America Latina

Plotkin, M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution

Swedberg, G. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:42 PDT

Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an "Exceptional Democracy."

Derham, M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

The History of Panama

Aparicio, F. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

La modernizacion entre cafetales: San Jose, Costa Rica, 1880-1930

Szuchman, M. D. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite

Abreu, C. D. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, politicas culturales y canon en Argentina

Lange, B. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Diaspora y exilio: Cronica de una familia argentina

Sadow, S. A. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Ciudadania y derechos indigenas en America Latina: Poblaciones, estados y orden internacional

Bueno, C. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City

Penyak, L. M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950

Zavala, A. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

J.-B. Debret, historiador e pintor: A viagem pitoresca e historica ao Brasil (1816-1839)

Malerba, J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

Hoffnung-Garskof, J. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories

Nava, C. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

Guridy, F. A. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980

Green, J. N. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933

Ochoa, E. C. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

La inmigracion fascista en la Argentina

Finchelstein, F. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States

Haynes, S. W. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas

Johnson, B. H. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers

Palmer, D. S. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

El comercio exterior de Mexico en la era del capitalismo liberal, 1870-1929

Dawson, A. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Integracion economica latinoamericana: Proceso ALALC/ALADI, 1950-2000, vol. 3

Rivera, S. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:42:43 PDT

Other

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