Antiguo regimen y liberalismo: Tucuman, 1770-1830 (review)
ingly blurred. This solidly researched study sometimes makes broader claims than its Limabased evidence can convincingly support. For example, while the founding of ten beaterios in swift succession after 1669 is remarkable, it may not constitute “a unique phenomenon in Spanish America” (p. 140). Cuzco seems to have experienced a boom in beaterios around the same time, including a colegio dedicated to educating poor “Indian” orphans, so perhaps further research will show this proliferation to be part of a regionwide trend. Certainly, van Deusen provides rich material for thinking about the crucial place of recogimiento in the transculturation of ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic distinctions.