Richard Salvucci is Professor of Economics at Trinity University. He has held major fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2006, he was the Peggy Guggenheim Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and, in 2008, he delivered the Christopher Lasch Memorial Lecture at the meeting of The Historical Society. He has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Historia Mexicana. His books