...Charles W. Arnade Friedrich Ratzel. A Biographical Memoir and Bibliography . By Wanklyn Harriet . London , 1961 . Cambridge University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 96 . $2.25 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Why review a biography of Friedrich...

...Donald C. Cutter Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848. A Biographical Dictionary . By Geiger Maynard O. F. M. San Marino , 1969 . The Huntington Library . Map. Tables. Notes. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography . Pp. xiv , 304 . $12.50 . Copyright 1970...

... in Jamaica, Méndez has been noted in the pages of history. Yet his story, told in another way which better illustrates the significance of his life, also sheds light on other facets of early post-Columbian history. Set in Santo Domingo, this biographical essay treats several crucial aspects of Spanish...

...Samuel Proctor Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews. Colonial Times Through 1800 . By Rosenbloom Joseph R. . Lexington , 1960 . University of Kentucky Press . Pp. xii , 175 . $10.00 . ...

...Verne E. Chatelain The Letters of Don Juan McQueen to his Family: Written from Spanish East Florida, 1791-1807, with Biographical Sketch and Notes . Edited by Hartridge Walter Charlton . ( Columbia : Bostick and Thornley , 1943 . Pp. xxxiv , 89 . $2.50 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke...

... the biographical entries are comprehensive, the historiographical essay is devoted almost exclusively to the nineteenth century. References to colonial or to twentieth-century historiography are incidental and, aside from generalities about gradual professionalization, there is little discussion of how a Pedro...

...John Rydjord Lakanal the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal . By Dawson Charles . ( University, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , 1948 . Pp. xvii , 213 . Frontispiece . $5.00 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

... the completion of the railroad and its transfer to the English owners Keith’s association with Costa Rica waned, and so does the interest of his biographer. Keith lived in seclusion on Long Island from the turn of the century until his death, at the age of 81, a few months before the 1929 stock market crash...

... Who’s Who in Latin America. A Biographical Dictionary of the Outstanding Living Men and Women of Spanish America and Brazil . Second edition. Edited by Martin Percy Alvin . ( Stanford University : Stanford University Press , 1940 . Pp. xxxii , 558 . $5.50 .) Copyright 1941...

... A Biographical Dictionary of the Franciscans in Spanish Florida and Cuba (1528-1841) . By Geiger Maynard O.F.M. [ Franciscan Studies, XXI. Edited by Marion Habig, O.F.M. ] ( Paterson, N. J. : St. Anthony Guild Press , 1940 . Pp. xii , 140 . Paper, $1.50 ; cloth, $2.00...

...C. K. Jones Mexican writers: a Catalogue of Books in the University of Arizona Library with Synopses and Biographical Notes . By Lutrell Estelle , Librarian of the University of Arizona. ( Tucson : 1920 . Pp 83 . Portraits.) Copyright 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 ...

...Herminio Portell Vilá Who’s Who in Latin America. A Biographical Dictionary of the outstanding living Men and Women of Spanish America and Brazil . By Martin Percy Alvin (editor) and da Silveira Soares Cardozo Manoel (assistant editor). ( Stanford University, California...

...R. C. Padden The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru . By Lockhart James . Austin , 1972 . Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by the University of Texas Press . Latin American Monographs, 27 . Map. Tables. Appendices...

...Benjamin Keen Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers in the Americas, 1687-1821 . By Burkholder Mark A. and Chandler D. S. . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1982 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiii , 491 . Cloth . $49.95...

...R.G. Who’s Who in Latin America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Latin America . 7 vols, in 2. Edited by Hilton Ronald . 3d ed. Detroit, Michigan , 1971 (1945) . Blaine Ethridge Books , Pp. 130 , 103 , 149 , 77 , 209 , 258 , 269 . Cloth...

...Frederick M. Nunn Orlando Letelier: Biographical Notes and Comments . By del Solar Edmundo . Translated by Inda Caridad and del Solar Maria . New York , 1978 . Vantage Press . Appendix . Pp. 90 . Cloth. $5.95 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980...

...John Fisher Biographical Dictionary of Councilors of the Indies, 1717-1808 . By Burkholder Mark A. . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press , 1986 . Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 194 . Cloth . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 This unpretentious...

.... , 1958 . Westholm Publications . Pp. ix , 34 . For a Hudson Biographer . By West Herbert Faulkner . Hanover, N. H. , 1958 . Westholm Publications . Appendix . Pp. 37 . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

... history of the saint’s Life ( Vida ), a genre of sacred biographical writing reflecting the colonial societies in which they were written. The actual subject of Spanish American Saints , its title notwithstanding, is not the saints themselves but the work of their hagiographers in New Spain and Peru...

.... For the manuscripts (many of which are maps), Barreto provides the repositories and precise catalog descriptions. The work includes extensive biographical information on authors, even multiple biographical references when they exist. For the works listed, Barreto supplies lengthy annotations, mostly descriptive...