Books in the LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series series

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

An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples.The American Indian-origin, culture, and language-engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Could they have emigrated from Carthage, Phoenicia, or Troy? All these and many other theories were proposed.How could scholars account for the multiplicity of languages among the Indians, the differences in levels of culture? And how did the Indian arrive in America-by using as a bridge a now-lost continent or, as was later suggested by some persons in the light of an expanding knowledge of geography, by using the Bering Strait as a migratory route?Most of the theories regarding the American Indian were first advanced in the sixteenth century. The two most influential men in an early-developing controversy over Indian origins were Joseph de Acosta and Gregorio Garcia. Approaching the subject with restraint and with a critical eye, Acosta, in 1590, suggested that the presence of diverse animals in America indicated a land connection with the Old World. On the other hand, Garcia accepted several theories as equally possible and presented each in the strongest possible light in his Origen de los indios of 1607.In this distinctive book Lee E. Huddleston looks carefully into those theories and proposals. From many research sources he weaves an historical account that engages the reader from the very first.

An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru's peasant population in the 1960s.

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

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

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.

A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.

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.

Based on extended interviews at the Culipran fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action.

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 book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists.

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

In this study, Marvin Goldwert interprets the rise, growth, and development of militarism in Argentina from 1930 to 1966.

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.

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

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.

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.

A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry.

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.

This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in Sao Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.

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.

This volume of six essays makes readily available to English-speaking readers a selection of significant contributions by outstanding Mexican economists, dealing with the mid-twentieth-century growth of the Mexican economy.

Based on extensive primary source material, this overview of the Brazilian republican state demonstrates that it was one of the most interventionist in Latin America well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929.

How men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment.

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

A study of the 1930s dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia and the inter-American peace conference that settled it.

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