Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. 39 (SOLO LIBROS/Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los siguientes libros: Eloy Alfaro. Narraciones históricas. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador / Corporación Editora Nacional, 2012, 368 pp . -- Adolfo León Atehortúa Cruz. Germán Colmenares. Una Nueva Historia. Cali: Universidad del Valle, 2013, 161 pp . -- Fernando Chuquimia Bonifaz. Las Sociedades de Socorros Mutuos y Beneficencia en La Paz, 1883-1920. La Paz: Centro de Estudios para la América Andina y Amazónica, 2013, 255 pp . -- Eliga H. Gould. Among the Powers of the Earth. The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012, 301 pp.

From ideals to reality: The women's smallholding colony at Lingfield, 1920-39

The immediate impetus for the colony at Lingfield in Surrey was the desire by the Women's Farm and Garden Association to enable women who had worked on the land during the First World War to be able to farm on their own account. However the motivation for the colony can also be traced back to late nineteenth-century ideals. The colony soon ran into problems which were exacerbated by the adverse agricultural conditions of the early 1920s. The association responded constructively but the colony was wound down from 1929. At one level the colony could be seen as a failure, yet this article argues that the 19 colony provided a rural community where single women lived in a mutually supportive environment.

British railways and the challenge from road haulage: 1919-39

Interwar Britain witnessed the rapid rise of road transport as a serious competitor to the railways. This article examines road–rail competition for freight traffic. It demonstrates that, contrary to previous accounts—which have been highly critical of the railway companies—their failure to prevent rapid loss of traffic to the roads was the inevitable consequence of the regulatory framework under which the railways had been returned to private control in 1921. Given the constraints imposed by this framework, price competition with road hauliers would have further depressed railway company profits. Railway policy thus concentrated on pressing for a revision of the legislative framework governing road–rail competition.