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This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940-1948 that led to a successful armed uprising, as well as the role of Jose Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power.

This book sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience of migration in historical perspective by examining the macro-level factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina.

A comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Latin American economic development in the mid-twentieth century.

This study traces the development of the Argentine wheat zone, focusing on the part wheat played in forming the Argentina of today.

Cinema Novo x 5 places the success of Brazilian cinema in perspective by examining the films of the five leaders of this groundbreaking movement-Andrade, Diegues, Guerra, Rocha, and dos Santos.

This study presents an examination of the problem of evaluating the adequacy of Latin American tax-reform efforts and recommends basic criteria for such evaluation.

A study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical.

Why public administration theories of the United States and Western Europe, when transplanted to another cultural setting, did not take root and in fact unexpectedly proved to be most applicable in Brazil during periods of autocratic rule.

A close examination of the social background and political activity of students at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico in the 1960s.

How British-owned railways affected the development of Argentine economic nationalism.

The first study to examine the agrarian history of a region in South America from the mid-sixteenth through late-seventeenth century.

The first book in English to study in depth the remarkable convention that produced the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.

A study of the history of this group that has fought for freedom of the press in Latin America.

A study of Spanish Republican emigres who fled from Spain to Mexico in 1939-1940.

Why a particular region in Colombia played such a strong role in the country's economic history.

This book analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in ta Peruvian region as it underwent socioeconomic development through a period of recurring natural disasters.

Richard B. Lindley's study of Guadalajara's wealthy citizens on the eve of independence contradicts the view that the wars for independence arose from creole-peninsular resentment.

The first major analysis of the social and political bases of the Aprista movement.

These eight essays trace the establishment and implementation of the Mexican electoral system, both national and municipal, and of reforms in the economic, journalistic, religious, and military systems.

This study, based primarily on previously unavailable private records of sugarcane plantations, examines the external and internal dynamics of the sugar industry.

The dramatic change in attitudes toward immigration in Chile and Argenitna during the quarter century preceding World War I is the subject of this study.

This book examines the relationship between economic development and equality in twentieth century Mexico.

This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century.

An examination of the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in Cordoba, Argentina's most important interior city, between the 1870s and World War I.

Folk customs of the mid-twentieth century in a village in Coahuila.

The results of an empirical investigation designed to produce instruments to measure personal values that have been central variables in the theory of modernization of societies, using Brazil and Mexico as examples.

A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.

Roderic Camp's examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country to detail the structure of intellectual life, rather than merely considering intellectual ideas.

A modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.