...: What is historical comparison and what his- toriographical results can be expected from such efforts? Historian Roger Nichols takes the full portion of five centuries and all peoples of North America, geographically from...

... Age (ca. 1350–1850) reached its peak. In parts of North America and Europe, winter temperatures hit their lowest point in two thousand years. The Río Grande (Río Bravo) froze over; maize crops declined or failed altogether; competition for scarce resources brought displacement and war. “Death follows...

... descubrimiento del Río Apure . Caracas: EDIME. Cassani, Joseph 1967 [1741] Historia de la provincia de la compañia de Jesus del Nuevo Reino de Granada en la America . Fuentes para la historia colonial de Venezuela, No. 85. Caracas: Biblioteca de la Academia Nacional de la Historia. Castellanos, Juan...

...Cynthia Radding American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encounters: The Spanish Borderlands of North America Cynthia Radding, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s...

... in Colonial Spanish America. By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ix + pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. cloth, paper.) Leslie S. Offutt, Vassar College Robert H. Jackson examines the processes of identity creation in Bolivia and northwestern New Spain...

... between Christianity and Native Reli- gions in Colonial America. Edited by Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cer- vantes. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press pp., introduction, epilogue, index. paper.) John F. Chuchiak IV, Assumption College This edited volume, Spiritual Encounters, is a refreshing...

... mission in the Americas. Indeed, Padre Alva knew just what to look for, and these insights are in large part what make this book so interesting, for they are telling of continuities of ancient religious practices more than one...

... World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America. By Ed- ward G. Gray. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, xiv + pp., acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, bibliography, index. cloth.) Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, and Susan Wurtzburg, Lincoln University (New Zealand...

...Alan D. McMillan; Ian Hutchinson Geological evidence demonstrates that recurrent great earthquakes have been generated at the Cascadia subduction zone, off the west coast of North America, throughout the Holocene. Such major earthquakes and associated tsunamis would have had devastating impacts...

...: What is historical comparison and what his- toriographical results can be expected from such efforts? Historian Roger Nichols takes the full portion of five centuries and all peoples of North America, geographically from...

... in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Span- ish America. By Kimberly Gauderman. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 216 pp., 2 maps. $35.00 cloth.) Cynthia E. Milton, Université de Montréal Women’s Lives presents Spanish, indigenous, and mestiza women of differ- ent socioeconomic...

...Caskey Russell Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Edited by Brian Swann. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xxii + 617 pp., introduction, translations, list of contributors, index. $27.50 paper.) 2006 Book Reviews...

...Kimberly Gauderman American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 It Happened on the Way to the Temascal and Other Stories: Desiring the Illicit in Colonial Spanish America Kimberly Gauderman, University of New Mexico Spaniards had a lot on their minds in early Latin America...

...Caterina Pizzigoni American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Alternative Sex and Gender in Early Latin America Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University The five essays presented here are varied and each worthy of separate analysis on its own terms, but they are also part...

...Karen Racine Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. By Carlos Forment. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxiii + 442 pp., preface, introduction, figures, tables, concluding remarks, index. $35.00 cloth.) American Society...

... what the native accounts have to say, a deeper understanding of its cultural significance in native terms can be created. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 On First Contact and Apotheosis: Manitou and Men in North America Evan Haefeli, Columbia University Abstract. To understand...

...Sonja Luehrmann The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867. By Andrei Val'terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 386 pp., preface, translators' introduction, maps, documentary appendix, glossary...

...David Carey, Jr American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Review Essay Elusive Identities: Indigeneity and Nation-States in Central America David Carey Jr., University of Southern Maine Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership. By Victor Montejo...

...Laura T. Keenan New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Edited by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xlii + 514 pp., introduction, afterword, contributors, index. $35.00 paper.) American Society...

...Tim Alan Garrison Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. By Lindsay G. Robertson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii + 239 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.) American Society...