Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 1993"

TL;DR: The historical landscape of pre-state societies in the Andes, class and state formation, and the impact of empire on the formation and organization of the Imperial State, conquest, succession, and changing composition of the ruling class quiescence and rebellion in the imperial state are discussed in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the Mexican leftist movement's attempts to come to grips with the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 and the ruling party that resulted, and its own efforts to radicalize and organize Mexican workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the precursors and premonitions of independence in Spanish America are discussed, including the nursery of caudillos, the new rulers caudillo state, nation state the necessary gendarme.

TL;DR: Deans-Smith as discussed by the authors studied the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico and found that there was as much continuity as change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance and resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, Carvalho et al. discuss the role of the Senate Commission for Science and Technology (CSC) and the Institute of Applied Economic Studies (IAES) in Brazil's economic development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on one of the lesser-known nineteenth-century national geographical societies: the Argentine Geographical Institute (AGI) and highlight the importance of the AGI in contributing to the physical delimitation of the republic.

TL;DR: In this article, individual data from a large-scale, household survey conducted in Bolivia in 1989 are used to examine educational attainment and earnings differentials, and to estimate the differential returns to schooling by ethnicity.

TL;DR: Costa Rica is one country which has adopted a programme designed to encourage the development and expansion of tourist facilities as mentioned in this paper, which consists primarily of economic benefits to the private sector in the form of tax abatements designed to make investment in the country competitive with other areas in the Central American-Caribbean region.

TL;DR: In this article, Ireland examines the three main religious traditions at the grass roots in Brazil -folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism - and traces the contrasting definitions of political problems that arise from these spiritual cultures.