.... Page after page of family glyphs and land plots present a certain stylistic minimalism in contrast to the Mendoza’s catalog of imperial riches. The Asunción ’ s compelling qualities derive from its singularity as a rich source of sixteenth- century household and agrarian survey data. This volume...

...A. P. Nasatir Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Asunción: Ciudad madre de ciudades . By Fretes Eduardo Amarilla Dr. . ( Asunción : Imprenta Nacional , 1942 . Pp. 62 . $0.50 .) ...

...Francisco Sevillano Colom * The author is a Spanish archivist who was in charge of the UNESCO microfilm unit which photographed approximately 200,000 pages of manuscript material in the Archivo Nacional of Asunción as a joint project with the government of Paraguay. The list is printed here...

... favored by good soil for farming, a mild climate, forests, and grasslands. These partly compensated for the region’s absence of mineral wealth. Spanish Paraguay consisted of an irregular triangle of roughly 60,000 square miles, spreading out from Asunción in a radius of some one hundred and twenty miles...

...Asunción Lavrin Los Carmelitas Descalzos y la conquista espiritual de México, 1585-1612 . By Moreno P. Dionisio Victoria . México , 1966 . Editorial Porrúa . Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. liii , 350 . Paper . $60.00 (Mex.). Cloth $70.00 (Mex...

...Asunción Lavbin Los recogimientos de mujeres: Respuesta a una problemática social novohispana . By Muriel Josefina . México , 1974 . Universidad Autónoma de México . Tables. Plates . Pp. 260 . Paper. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 In the colonial period...

...Asunción Lavrin This work falls short of being a complete or balanced history of New Spain. The author has focused on well-known topics without adding any new interpretations or considering the most recent historical revisions or bibliographical additions to the literature. For example, he...

...Asunción Lavrin; Edith Couturier Real estate, merchandise, and slaves were significant but not as important as cash and personal property. Real estate in the form of a house would provide an income or constitute the nucleus of a new home, and it was the choice of a few families. Modest houses...

...Asuncion Lavrin La mujer mexicana ante el divorcio eclesiástico: 1800-1857 . By Arrom Silvia M. . México , 1976 . SepSetentas . Pp. 222 . Paper. $10.00 M.N. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Complete dissolution of marriage did not exist in Mexico until 1917...

...Asunción Lavrin Entre la familia, la sociedad y el Estado: Niños y jóvenes en América latina (siglos XIX – XX) . Edited by Potthast Barbara and Carreras Sandra . Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana . Frankfurt : Vervuert , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes...

...Asunción Lavrin Woman and Art in Early Modern Latin America . Edited by Mcintyre Kellen Kee and Phillips Richard E. . The Atlantic World, 10 . Leiden : Brill , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xviii , 449 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2009...

...Asunción Lavrin Mujeres, género e historia en América Central durante los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX . Edited by Sáenz Eugenia Rodríguez . San José, Costa Rica : UNIFEM, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies , 2002 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xi, 221 pp. Paper Copyright 2004 by Duke...

...Asunción Lavrin Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 On August 24, 2011, Michael Costeloe, emeritus professor of Hispanic and Latin American studies at the University of Bristol, passed away, the victim of pancreatic cancer. He was born in Bishop Auckland, Durham, and received his...

...Asunción Lavrin Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context . By Taylor William B. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Index. ix , 149 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Shrines and Miraculous Images: Religious Life...

...Asunción Lavrin Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice . By Miller Francesca . Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England , 1991 . Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliographies. Index, xv, 324 pp. Paper . $16.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

...Asunción Lavrin The importance of deposits as a source of funds may be seen in the following examples. In 1720 the convent of San Juan de la Penitencia in Mexico City had a total of fifty-two deposits, almost all of them lent for a period of two to four years. The sum of money lent was 162,036...

...Asunción Lavrin As a mirror of the state of the art in the history of Chilean women, Cano Roldans work leaves much to be desired. The unorthodox mixture of data in this catch-all of curiosidades remains to be put under more systematic scrutiny. A critical picking of this work, however, may...

...Asunción Lavrin Forgotten Females: Women of African and Indian Descent in Colonial Chile, 1535-1800 . By Flusche Della M. and Korth Eugene H. . Detroit : Blaine Ethridge , 1983 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vi , 112 . Cloth . $16.50 . Copyright 1984...

...Asunción Lavrin El Episcopado Hispanoamericano. Institución misionera en defensa del indio (1504-1620) . 4 vols. By Dussel Enrique D. . Cuernavaca, México , 1969-70 . Centro Intercultural de Documentación . Sondeos, 32-35 . Tables. Graphs. Maps. Facsimiles . Pp. xci , 179 ; x...