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...C. Harvey Gardiner Surveyor of the sea. The life and voyages of Captain George Vancouver . By Anderson Bern . Seattle , 1960 . University of Washington Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 274 . $6.75 . Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...Charles E. Nowell So Noble a Captain: the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan . By Parr Charles McKew . ( New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co. , 1953 . Pp. xiv , 423 . Bibliography, index . $6.00 .) Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...Charles E. Nowell The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Endeavour. 1768-1771 . Vol. 1 and portfolio. Edited by Beaglehole J. C. . Cambridge , 1955 . Hakluyt Society-Cambridge University Press . Hakluyt Society Extra Series No. XXXIV...

...Thomas F. McGann The Troublesome Voyage of Captain. Edward Fenton, 1582-83 . Edited by Taylor E. G. R. . London-New York , 1960 . Cambridge University Press . The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CXIII . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. lvii , 333 . Cloth. $6.50...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Copyright 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 The true History of the Conquest of Mexico written in the Year 1568 by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquerors, and translated from the original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge, Esq . With an introduction...

...L. N. McAlister The Constant Captain: Gonzalo de Sandoval . By Gardiner C. Harvey . Carbondale, Illinois , 1961 . Southern Illinois University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 221 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 In this volume Professor...

... the citizens to take the oath of allegiance to King George. The names of those who did so, if we had them, would certainly shed some light on the antecedents of the May revolution. According to Captain Alexander Gillespie of the Royal Marines, whom Beresford had made commissary for prisoners, they numbered 58...

... as “gods”? Scholasticism is not dead; it is the texts considered canonical that are in dispute. University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, in this densely argued, frank, and at times humorous response to Princeton University anthropologist Gananath Obeye- sekere’s Apotheosis of Captain...

...Paul E. Hoffman Menéndez: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Captain General of the Ocean Sea . By Manucy Albert . Sarasota : Pineapple Press , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Index . 107 pp. Cloth . $14.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 This is a reprint...

... to support controversial statements rather than being contemptuously discarded as “the stigmata of formalized scholarship.” Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Fool’s Gold. The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California . By Dillon Richard . New York , 1967 . Coward...

...Eugene K. Chamberlin The Pearl Hunters in the Gulf of California, 1668. Summary Report of the Voyage Made to the Californias by Captain Francisco de Lucenilla . By Carranco Juan Cavallero . Edited and translated by Mathes W. Michael . Los Angeles , 1966 . Dawson’s Book Shop...

... by Silviera de Braganza Ronald Louis and Oakes Charlotte . Preface by Voigt Melvin J. . San Diego , 1974 . University Library, University of California . Illustrations . Pp. xv , 333 . Cloth. $28.00 . The Life of Captain James Cook . By Beaglehole J. C. . Stanford , 1974...

...J. Frank Dobie Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Captain Lee Hall of Texas . By Raymond Dora Neill ( Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1940 . Pp. 350 , index. $2.75 .) ...

...Eric Paul Roorda The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo . By Peguero Valentina . Studies in War, Society, and the Military . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2004 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography...

...Gordon Kenyon Having made the above qualifications, I should point out that Captains of Brazil is without a rival in English on the history of Brazil from 1500 (Cabral) to 1572 (the death of Mem de Sá). It is delightful to read, and in spite of the absence of footnoting it is sound in its...

... concerning any American ships in Brazil in 1807, at the end of which year the Jeffersonian Embargo went into effect. But despite the Embargo, the following five United States merchant vessels visited Brazil in 1808, sailing to Bafa, Pernambuco, and Rfo de Janeiro: 1. Schooner Favorite, Captain Bragg, arrived...

...Michael C. Meyer * The author is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 A bout midday on April 21, 1914, Captain Bonath of the S. S. Ypiranga , a German-registered vessel, was inching his ship toward the Veracruz harbor...

... contributed its allotted share. 4 Early in the war, for example, the captain in charge of Almería, the first established Christian stronghold within the Kingdom of Granada, wrote to request royal troops accompanied by a paymaster ( pagador ) . He cited a contingent sent earlier by the crusading order...