Doug Yarrington

The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela (review)

This overview does not do justice to such a rich, nuanced and rewarding study. If I had a grumble (or two), it is diat die books thematic organization provides a radier static portrait of the regime. Some readers also may wish for less theorizing and more empirical evidence, especially in the tantalizing chapter on denunciations and praise-speech. Finally, Derby chides historians for fetishizing die strongman at die expense of analyzing the inner workings of the dictatorship, but she is, quite understandably, drawn to her fascinating protagonist and devotes much less attention to his advisors, his political party, and the media (entities that gave new meaning to the word slavish). As Derby shows so compellingly, it always came back to Trujillo and his subjects.

Power and Culture: The Social History of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

CHILDREN OF FACUNDO: CAUDILLO AND GAUCHO INSURGENCY DURING THE ARGENTINE STATE-FORMATION PROCESS (La Rioja, 1853–1870). By Ariel de la Fuente. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. 249.

The Vestey Cattle Enterprise and the Regime of Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908–1935

54.95 Cloth,

Cattle, Corruption, and Venezuelan State Formation During the Regime of Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-1935

18.95 Paper.) CONTAINING THE POOR: THE MEXICO CITY POOR HOUSE, 1774– 1871. By Silvia M. Arrom. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. 398.

Tax Farming, Liquor, and the Quest for Fiscal Modernity in Venezuela, 1908–1935

59.95 Cloth,

Populist anxiety: race and social change in the thought of Romulo Gallegos.

19.95 Paper.) FROM SUBJECTS TO CITIZENS: HONOR, GENDER, AND POLITICS IN AREQUIPA, PERU, 1780–1854. By Sarah C. Chambers. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. 286.

Public Land Settlement, Privatization, and Peasant Protest in Duaca, Venezuela, 1870-1936

55.00 Cloth,

Spectacular modernity: dictatorship, space and visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958, by Lisa Blackmore, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, 280 pp., US

19.95 Paper.) HONORABLE LIVES: LAWYERS, FAMILIES, AND POLITICS IN COLOMBIA, 1780–1850. By Victor Uribe-Uran. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pp. 276.

28.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780822964384

50.00 Cloth.) IMPOSING DECENCY: THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY AND RACE IN PUERTO RICO, 1870–1920. By Eileen J. Suárez Findlay. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 328.

Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela. By Alejandro Velasco

59.95 Cloth,