...Felipe Arturo Ávila Espinosa Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Newman Elizabeth Terese . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 255 pp. Paper , $29.95...

...Laura Isabel Serna Wood frames his biography of Lara around the concept of modernity. He defines what can be a rather slippery term as the complex of social, political, and cultural change that marked the first half of the twentieth century. Wood declares that his goal in writing about Lara...

...Linda B. Hall General M. G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: A Biography . By Rosenus Alan . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1995 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index, xv, 292 pp. Cloth , $42.50 . Paper , $22.50 . Copyright 1997...

...Juan Javier Pescador Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present . By Hughes Jennifer Scheper . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 312 . Paper...

...Matthew Pursell The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America . Edited by Law Robin and Lovejoy Paul E. . Princeton : Markus Wiener , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xvi...

... that should be so is not explained in the books under review, although Gray’s biographical format is more successful. Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The Imperative of Modernity: An Intellectual Biography of José Ortega y Gasset . By Gray Rockwell . Berkeley : University...

...Estela Roselló Soberón As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas . Edited by Erica L. Ball , Tatiana Seijas , and Terri L. Snyder . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxv...

...Maynard Geiger, O. F. M. Copyright 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer . By Bolton Herbert Eugene . ( New York , The Macmillan Co. , 1936 . Pp. xv , 644 , 54 illus., 3 facsimiles, 8 maps...

...George Wythe Viscount Mauá and the Empire of Brazil: A Biography of Irineu Evangelista de Sousa (1813-1889) . By Marchant Anyda . Berkeley , 1965 . University of California Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 291 . $6.50 . Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966...

...Barbara Weinstein Brazil: A Biography . By Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling Translated by Allen Lane . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Index . xxvi, 761 pp. Paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...

...Richard L. Kagan Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507–1582 . By Maltby William S. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Epilogue. Index . Pp. xviii , 377 . Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

...Robert J. Alexander Perón: A Biography . By Page Joseph A. . New York : Random House , 1983 . Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 594 . Cloth . $24.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 This is undoubtedly the best book so far published...

... of hundreds of Jesuits sailing from Spain to the foreign missions, but he failed to find the list in which Kino appears. How this reviewer discovered it is indicated by Kessell in the Foreword (pp. xvi-xvii). The Rim omits the entire second section of Kino’s biography of his fellow missionary Saeta...

...Larry D. Hill Diplomat of the Americas: A Biography of William I. Buchanan, 1852-1909 . By Peterson Harold F. . Albany , 1977 . State University of New York Press . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 458 . Cloth. $40.00 . Copyright 1978 by Duke University...

...Thomas E. Skidmore From Community to Metropolis: A Biography of Sño Paulo, Brazil . Edited by Morse Richard M. . New York , 1974 . Octagon Books . Notes. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiii , 401 . Cloth . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

... while the cook fire is still smoldering; others quickly lose all trace of him in the maze of contradictory stories, tales, and traditions. Yet his name and legend lure aspiring writers, journalists, and historians. Oren Arnold has tried to capture him, and he utterly fails. This is not a poor biography...

...P. H. Pancho Villa: A Biography . By Rouverol Jean . New York , 1972 . Doubleday & Company . Map. Illustration. Glossary. Bibliography . Pp. 208 . Cloth. $4.50 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 This is a biography written for a popular audience...

...Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Don Pepe: A Political Biography of José Figueres of Costa Rica . By Ameringer Charles D. . Albuquerque , 1978 . University of New Mexico Press . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 324 . Cloth. $16.50 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press...