Woodrow Borah

Political and Economic Life

UP. SUBJECT is Colonial Institutions and Contemporary Latin America: my portion is political and economic life. Both subject and portion are vast and attractive but fearfully complex. As we all know, Latin America is a continent and a half, by no means of uniform heritage and with regions of considerable cultural diversity. Furthermore, these regions are undergoing change which moves at differential rates and may not even be in the same direction. There are, in addition, ambiguities and assumptions within the topic itself that require at least mention. Within this context, what is an institution? One can accept at once the statement that it is an organized society, or a form of social organization, or an established practice or custom. But is it also an attitude or a complex of attitudes that constitute a way of looking at life and of organizing life? I think that this too must fall within our definition. Next, the subject would seem to contain the idea of survival. Is that term to mean that a colonial institution continues to the present day in demonstrably uninterrupted continuity and value? Here the lapse of old needs and the appearance of new ones obviously have meant in many instances extinction but in many others change in function and value so that one must examine the degree of alteration. Again, the topic, it seems to me, carries within it a conception of divisions of time and nature of change, which may be summarized as follows: There was a colonial period which began some time after 1492 with the European incursion and came to a close about 1825 when most of Latin America became politically independent of

Unos documentos sobre las empresas cortesianas en Panamá y Acajutla

En los anos 1538-1540 Hernan Cortes desde sus estados en el Marquesado del Valle tenia esperanzas de vender 10

Les Petites Antilles de Cristophe Colomb a Richelieu (1493-1635).@@@The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective.

productos de estos con mayor ganancia en la ciudad de Panama, la que en aquellos anos surtia de ab~stecimientos al Peru nuevamente conquistado. A la vez queria cobrar unas deudas que se le debian en el Peru como resUltado de la venta de lo llevado alli en dos Viajes anteriores. con estoS propositos mando dos agentes a Panama, uno, Alonso de Zamudio, con destino. even tual en el Peru y el otro, Juan d~ Segura, como factor en la ciudad de Panama. El malogro de estas venturas cortesianas se han descrito en otros lugares 1. con base a la

Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects of the Liberal Revolution, 1856-1875.@@@Los bienes de la Iglesia en Mexico, 1856-1875. Aspectos economicos y sociales de la Revolucion liberal.

In this second edition of The Repeating Island , Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benitez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benitez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benitez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillen, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodriguez Julia.

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1800.

List of tables Editors note Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Nationalized goods and Church wealth, 1821-55 2. Puebla and Veracruz. The intervention and the disentailment of Church wealth, 1856-57 3. The disentailment in Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Michoacan and Jalisco, 1856-57 4. The civil war, 1858-60 5. Nationalized property in the city of Mexico: the final settlement, 1861-63 6. Nationalized property in the provinces: the final settlement, 1861-63 7. The foreign occupation and the liberal republic, 1863-75 Conclusion Appendices List of sources and works cited Index.