Susan Migden Socolow

Población y espacio en el Buenos Aires del siglo XVIII

Durante el siglo XVIII Buenos Aires se convirtio en una ciudad importante del imperio espafiol en America. Comenzando en las primeras decadas y prolongandose ininterrumpidamente durante todo el siglo, el comercio (tanto legal como el contrabando) y la creciente actividad militar en el Rio de la Plata dio a la ciudad una nueva importancia economica y estrategica. Poco a poco, Buenos Aires paso a ser un floreciente centro comercial y burocratico.

Urbanization in Colonial Latin America

The nations of modern Latin America are dominated politically and economically by large, rapidly expanding cities. In many countries-Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru, for example-nearly a third of the total national population lives in the capital city. Despite the obvious importance of the region’s cities today and the subsequent development of a large, if uneven, body of scholarship dealing with the problems of contemporary urbanization, relatively few scholars have studied the colonial antecedents of Latin America’s urban development. In general, however, the existing scholarship, although limited in geographical and temporal coverage, does provide a strong foundation for future work. In this article we will provide a brief overview of the development of the colonial system of cities. After reviewing the model for sixteenth-century urbanization, the chronology of

Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890

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Religious Participation of the Porteño Merchants: 1778-1810

A Social History of colonial Latin America should endeavor to trace the patterns of behavior of the various social groups within the society. Group behavior can be viewed from a number of different perspectives. Among the more important variables are political behavior, economic behavior, social behavior and religious behavior. Religious participation and involvement is one of the more interesting of these variables, especially in Latin America, where the Catholic Church has traditionally been a social institution powerfully affecting all others. The Church and the upper social groups have often functioned in a symbiotic relationship one to another, with the Church providing a measure of social prestige and temporal power in exchange for economic and/or political support. This essay, based on a study of 178 wholesale merchants, seeks to interpret the relationships established between the Church and the economically and socially powerful merchant group in late eighteenth century Buenos Aires. At the same time, the essay attempts to illustrate that in studying the religious participation of a specific social group, the role of religion as an indicator of social prestige and power becomes dramatically apparent.

Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820 by Jeremy Baskes (review)

Friendships also proved vital for Gay, commissioned by the Chilean government to tackle the truly Herculean task of conducting a sweeping survey of natural phenomena in Chile. The very institutionalization of natural history, then, depended on relations of both friendship and competition between the naturalists devoted to its study. It is noteworthy that the wives and sisters of these naturalists were often key assistants and interlocutors, and the work of servants can also be glimpsed between the lines of naturalist discourse. Schell’s exploration of aspects of the naturalists’ personal lives allows her to address gender and class and race issues.

Las Mujeres en la historia de Columbia. Volume 1, Mujeres, historia, y politica.@@@Notable Latin American Women: Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900.

Detailed here are the lives and achievements of 29 Latin American Women: Bartira, Doa Marina, Isabel de Guevara, Teculihuatzin, Beatriz de la Cueva, Catalina de Erauso, Juana Ins de la Cruz, Micaela Bastidas, Policarpa Salvarrieta, Josefa Oritz de Domnguez, Manuela Senz, Francisca Zubiaga, Leona Vicario, Javiera Carrera, Agueda Monasterio de Lattapiat, Luisa Recabarren de Marn, Gertrudis Bocanegra, Juana Barragn, Mara Luisa Martnez de Garca, Mara Fermina Rivera, Manuela Medina, Leopoldina, Manuela de Rosas, Margarita Maza de Jurez, Laura Mndez de Cuenca, Mara Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra, Esther Tapia de Castellano, Refugio Barragn de Toscano, and Luisa Muoz Ledo.

Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History.@@@Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transitions.

Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the regions political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures. The selections are arranged in two sections: Culture and the Status of Women, and Reconstructing the Past.