... studies, produced detailed maps, explored the highlands, and interacted with Peruvian intellectuals. Similar German expeditions went to Asia, Africa, and elsewhere in South America during this decisive period for the Nazi empire. This essay analyzes the writings and publications of the German and Austrian...

... that animated national discourses around education were felt (and acted upon) locally. The article analyzes detailed responses submitted by priests to an 1885 archiepiscopal questionnaire on schooling in their parishes. Although some priests reported vehement opposition to teaching doctrine on the part...

... the first detailed account of the multiple seaborne missions sent from Montevideo to Lima, which by 1814 secured more than a half-million pesos in monetary assistance. These funds not only sustained military and naval campaigns but also assured big and small imperial stakeholders that the system of fiscal...

... for religious women ( mamaconas ) who served in temple complexes and oversaw the gendered training of chosen girls ( acllas ) in other enclosures. New details on women's enclosures appeared at the turn of the seventeenth century, including the first accounts of Christian men of Andean descent. The Inca...

... 1979 The author, head of the history section of the Mobile Public Library and descendant on both sides of founding settlers of Old Mobile in 1702, has written an amazingly detailed account of the first town in colonial Louisiana. Fort Louis de la Louisiane, founded by Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville...

... 692 HAHR / November Smoker beyond the Sea will be interesting to scholars of Puerto Rico, tobacco cultivation, and cigar manufacturing, and to those interested in comparative economic histories of the Caribbean. Although undergraduate students may have less need for such a detailed history...

... of Latin American slavery and is indebted to it; that debt is repaid in this fine volume. In some respects, however, Saunders’s strengths also generate weaknesses in this book. The attention to detail keeps the focus limited. There are no provocative new theses put forward, nor is the excellent...

..., and the author demonstrates in intimate detail that indeed the island was not immune to revolt. The study is divided into 11 short chapters that cover slave revolts and conspiracies more or less chronologically, and a 12th that examines murders committed by slaves. The material is presented in such detail...

... (not the nationality, as in the case of the later Catalan and Basque movements) should be the fundamental unit of government. Mr. Hennessy’s book combines a political-intellectual biography of Pi with detailed information on the September Revolution and on inner party politics from 1868 to 1874. He has used...

... the decision to include narration as well as the maps, charts, and graphs, while limiting each topical section to a single spread. Reflecting the authors’ determination to focus on regionwide perspectives, the volume lacks detailed full-page maps of individual nations. Although some maps show the distribution...

... be disconcerting to others. This kind of material offers some fascination for those who want their ethnography in a glossed form, and certainly provides a wealth of detail of what Ignacio thought that others would be interested in hearing. Most of it deals with local events with little national...

...Frank Safford The discussion of technical details makes clear why steam-powered paddle-wheel boats competed with difficulty against diesel-powered propeller-driven craft. The combined weight of steam engines, fuel, water, and paddles was roughly six times that of diesel engines, fuel...

.... The transcriptions and translations, displayed with the Nahuatl and English on facing pages, are models of clarity, wonderfully nuanced and rendered in idiomatic English that nonetheless remains remarkably faithful to the originals. Townsend’s extensive and detailed annotations lay out her rationale for certain...