Showing papers in "Americas in 1986"

The End and the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution

Abstract: For a brief period, revolution in Nicaragua dominated the news. But what has happened since the 1979 insurrection that toppled the government of Anastasio Somoza Debayle? And what does this mean for Nicaragua's future? This book provides an up-to-date view of the radical social and political changes that are occurring in these first few years of go

Politics, Peasants, and People of Color: The 1912 “Race War” in Cuba Reconsidered

Abstract: I T was known at the time as "la guerra de razas" and "la guerra racista." It still is. White Cubans had been dreading it for almost a century. Its probability had been long presumed, contemplated with a mixture of apprehension and readiness. It was a spectre that loomed large over the then colony. It did not diminish in the early republic. In 1912, white Cubans' worst fears were confirmed: blacks rose up in armed rebellion. The long-dreaded race war had arrived or so it seemed. The perception of the 1912 uprising as a race war took hold immediately, and has held on since. It has persisted as one of the enduring truths of the historiography of the early republic. Inside Cuba and out, before the revolution and after, the historiography has displayed a remarkable adherence to lines first drawn in 1912.1

The International Relations of Women of the Americas 1890-1928

Abstract: There is perhaps no area of historical literature where women—other than monarchs and Mata Haris—have been less visible than in the literature of international relations. Yet women of the western world were active at the international level by the last half of the nineteenth century, and in numbers commensurate to those of their male counterparts. The record of their organization, deliberations, tactics, correspondence, public statements and delegations to designated representatives of their governments adds a new dimension to the history of international relations.

When Colombia Bled: A History of the Violencia in Tolima

Abstract: 0false18 pt18 pt00falsefalsefalseThis book focuses on the Colombian "Violencia," the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history. There is also an array of appendixes, maps, and photographs.

Fathers and Sons: The Politics of Inheritance in a Colonial Brazilian Township

Abstract: HAT fathers should be concerned about whom their daughters marry is neither surprising nor unusual. But that fathers should favor their sons-in-law over their own sons is both a remarkable and interesting phenomenon. Curiously, this practice has been observed by several historians studying colonial Latin America, yet few have stopped to evaluate either its origins or implications. This article analyzes the favored sons-in-law in the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and suggests that this phenomenon must be seen within the context of family attempts to preserve property and to prevent its fragmentation from generation to generation. As family customs concerning marriage and inheritance developed in colonial society, they left a far-reaching impact on the evolution of that society. The position of the favored sons-in-law is one such custom which affected not only family life but the future social position of a family's descendants. By studying these family practices, then, historians can gradually reconstruct how colonial families shaped the social world of Latin America. In Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, David Brading outlined many of the predominant features of what has become known as the '"elite family enterprise."' Central to it, were marriages between daughters

Rulers and Owners: A Brazilian Case Study in Comparative Perspective

Abstract: LITE studies, even in an age of "little people's" history, require no apology to the degree that they reveal patterns of social stratification and the dynamics of power, both economic and political. The elite examined here is the political leadership of Sdo Paulo state between the coup d'etat establishing the Brazilian Republic and that of the centralizing Estado Novo (1889-1937). This study reveals the close correspondence between political and economic leadership, present to a lesser degree in analogously defined elites of Minas Gerais and Pernambuco, but apparently lacking in other periods of Brazilian history and in elites of other countries. It also asks lshy such a correspondence exists, and looks at the character of the dominant social class, as well as the question of hegemony, in the light of recent modes-ofproduction debates about Sdo Paulo and other regions of Latin America.' For the years under study, Brazil had 2o states, but Sio Paulo played a crucial role in framing the terms of Brazilian politics. The Republican party of Sdo Paulo (Partido Republicano Paulista) was the largest and best organized at the fall of the empire (1889), and a Paulista presided over the

Business Imperialism and British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, Limited, 1830-1960

Abstract: OREIGN entrepreneurs have played a highly visible and controversial role in Latin American history since the voyages of Columbus in the fifteenth century. Throughout the colonial period, monarchs and bureaucrats periodically debated the role non-Iberian entrepreneurs should play in the New World empires. The wars of independence in the nineteenth century opened Latin American nations to a massive influx of British, and later, North American capital, raising new questions about the role of the foreigner in national affairs. With the emergence of strong cultural and economic nationalism in the twentieth century, politicians and scholars have focused increasingly on the role of foreign investors and foreign enterprise in the development process. Most of the scholarly literature during the past three decades has concentrated on the national and international arenas, ranging over such issues as capital flows, foreign control of vital national industries and resources, multinational corporations, and theories of dependency and imperialism.' The macroeconomic perspective has dominated the literature, while few scholars have analyzed the operations and evolution of individual foreign companies. Thus, despite the longstanding and controversial role of foreign business in Latin America, we know very

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Abstract: 4:00 P.M. 8:30 A.M. 11:00 A.M. SEPTEMBER 5/6 BILL ANDRESEN JIM BUHMAN BELINDA BALL ALICE ANDRESEN CAROL BUHMAN BOB RZEPKOWSKI PAT MILLER LARRY POSS MICHAEL HERRING LUCY WALKER JEAN GRIFFITH DENISE PROKOP SHIRLEY GOODWIN GARY GRIFFITH ANGELA DORSEY LARRY ORTH MEGAN WELLS KATHY POWERS MICHAEL CARPENTIERI WARREN NOLD CHRIS GERKEN JIM FITZGERALD MARY NOLD JIM MURPHY J.F. SURMEIER CATHY CROOK PENNY LEWIS