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..., he was ambushed and killed at the hacienda Chinameca by soldiers loyal to the revolutionary faction of Venustiano Carranza, who had been trying since 1915 to consolidate power in Mexico City. Zapata was buried in the graveyard of the important Morelos town of Cuautla. Zapata’s military career...

...James Crawford The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836–1981 . By Blanton Carlos Kevin . Fronteras Series No. 2 . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix , 204 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright 2005...

...Horst Pietschmann Politics of a Colonial Career: José Baquíjano and the Audiencia of Lima . By Burkholder Mark A. . Albuquerque ; University of New Mexico Press , 1980 . Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xi, 184. Cloth . $20.00 . Copyright...

... to bring the conflict to a rapid and peaceful conclusion. 51 Although the Santiago conference was the highpoint, it was far from the end of Alejandro Alvarado’s anti-imperialistic career. Indeed, he continued to advocate his anti-imperialist views whenever he could, and although the Costa Rican...

...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 ...

...Myrna Santiago British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919 . By Garner Paul . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 319 pp. Cloth...

...Benjamin Keen Carlos de Alvear. Man of Revolution. The Diplomatie Career of Argentina’s First Minister to the United States . By Davis Thomas B. Jr. Durham , 1955 . Duke University Press . Illustration. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. vii , 305 . Cloth . $5.75...

...Mart Wilhelmine Williams The Incredible Yanqui: the Career of Lee Christmas . By Deutsch Herman B. . ( London : Longmans, Green and Company , 1931 . Pp. xiv , 242 . Illus., map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 ...

...William D. McCain The Filibuster: The Career of William Walker . By Greene Laurence . ( Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company [ c 1937 ]. Pp. 350 . Portrait; illus.; index; inside cover map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...

...Mitchell B. Garrett Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 The Man Who Sold Louisiana: The Career of François Barbé-Marbois . By Lyon E. Wilson . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1942 . Pp. xix , 240 . $2.75 .) ...

...Stanley R. Ross The Military and Political Career of José Joaquin de Herrera, 1792-1854 . By Cotner Thomas Ewing . [ University of Texas, Institute of Latin-American Studies, Latin-American Studies, VII .] ( Austin : The University of Texas Press , 1949 . Pp. ix , 336 . Index...

...John E. Fagg Liberation in South America, 1806-1827. The career of James Paroissien . By Humphreys R. A. . ( London : The Athlone Press , 1952 . Pp. 177 . Illustrations, maps, index . 25/ —.) Copyright 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ...

...Dana G. Munro Career Ambassador . By Beaulac Willard L. . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1951 . Pp. 262 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ...

...Rufus Kay Wyllys John Charles Frémont: An Explanation of His Career . By Goodwin Cardinal . ( Stanford University, California : Stanford University Press , 1930 . Pp. xi , 285 . Map . $4.00 .) Copyright 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 ...

...Stephen E. Lewis The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico’s Twentieth Century . By Brunk Samuel . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2008 . Photographs. Notes...

...Andrew J. Torget The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire . By Karl Jacoby . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 2016 . Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxviii, 304 pp. Cloth , $27.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...

... alliances, and the maintenance and transformation of political-economic structures. 3 This essay on the career of Carlos Novella illustrates the historical circumstances promoting and obstructing industrialization and socioeconomic transformation in Guatemala. Certainly, coffee and bananas have long...

...Jacob Blanc Abstract The Prestes Column rebellion is among the most mythologized events in modern Brazil: from 1924 to 1927, a group of junior army officers marched nearly 15,000 miles through Brazil's vast interior regions. This Homeric epic into the so-called backlands launched the careers...