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...Anyda Marchant Santos Dumont . By da Fonseca Gondin . ( Rio de Janeiro : Casa Editora Vecchi , 1940 . Pp. 325 . 18$000 , paper; 24$000 bound.) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Gary Kuhn Santos-Dumont. A Study in Obsession . By Wykeham Peter . London , 1962 . Putnam and Company, Ltd . Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 278 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 While most Latin Americans and almost any Brazilian...

...Richard R. Fagen Cuba: Socialism and Development . By Dumont René . Translated by Lane Helen R. . New York , 1970 . Grove Press . Selected Bibliography . Pp. xv , 240 . Cloth, $7.50 . Paper , $1.75 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 But in addition...

... (Le Monde , 12 May 1971) and others, among Cubans seeking to understand the reasons for the economic and other failures which became so apparent in 1970. Dumont’s analysis should be of great interest to all foreign students of the Cuban Revolution as well, whether or not they are generally in sympathy...

... of Latin America within early aviation history. After all, Brazil's Alberto Santos-Dumont also claimed to be the creator of the first successful aerodyne flying machine. And even if the Wright brothers just barely beat him to the punch, it was Santos-Dumont who first caught the attention of global...

... of humankind” (p. xi). For example, the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont, and not the noted Wright brothers, was the first to successfully lift and sustain in the air a heavier-than-air craft in public. Interrogating agents such as Santos-Dumont alongside actors such as the Wright brothers illuminates...

...Pierre Chaunu L’aventure inca . By Flourny Bertrand . Paris , 1955 . Amist Dumont . Illustrations. Charts . Pp. 274 . Excellent general treatment . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

... City , 1953 . Imprenta Universitaria . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 16 . En selle avec Pancho Villa . By Camp Jean . Paris , 1952 . Amiot-Dumont . Collection Presence de l’Histoire . Bibliography . Pp. 254 . Paper . General William Jenkins Worth, Monterey’s Forgotten...

..., the author carefully avolds anything connoting political passion. The 1964 upheaval is not even mentioned. One does, however, get an appreciation for some of the key personages of Brazilian aviation such as Lieutenant Ricardo Kirk, Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, and Santos Dumont. Also quite evident...

... the “capitalistic” kind achieved by Mexico. He ends his discussion by quoting René Dumont to the effect that even a poorly conceived, poorly implemented, and faulty agrarian reform is better than no agrarian reform at all. Bolivia: un caso de reforma agraria . By Canelas Amado . La Habana , 1967...

... worker and journalist born in Point-à-Pitre in 1879, was originally published in 1921. Unavailable for years, it is not cited in major recent studies of Guadeloupean history such as Anne Pérotin-Dumont’s Être patriote sous les tropiques (1985) and Allain-Philippe Blérald’s Histoire économique de la...

... into the existing revolutionary military/bourgeois elite because institutions were inadequate. The well-known social and economic inequalities between the urban and rural conditions are enumerated, based heavily on such sources as González Casanova, Dumont, Huizer, Stavenhagen and Wionczek. They are attributed...

... dissertation, with a concluding epilogue by historian Sousa Barbosa, covering the period between 1960 and 2000. Ribeirão Preto, in São Paulo’s Mogiana zone, was the coffee capital of the world on the eve of World War I. Two of the county’s coffee magnates, Henrique Dumont and Francisco Schmidt, owned...

... (Wallerstein, Baran, Dale Johnson), who view the military as agents for imperialist forces, he rejects as going beyond the hard evidence. It is with the developmental theorists (Huntington, Furtado, Dumont), who view the military as an autonomous nationalistic force emerging in reaction to external pressure...

... reports; early scholarly works by Rolando Bonachea and Nelson Valdés, Andrés Suárez, and Carmelo Mesa-Lago, and by the European socialist intellectuals René Dumont, K. S. Karol, and Régis Debray; personal memoirs of Carlos Franqui, former editor of Revolutión , the Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal...

..., and local experts, such as the Derosne train, the Dumont filters, and the vacuum strike pans. The book also documents planters' experiments with different labor pools, including Chinese, and shows that the prevailing racial ideas of the time, expressed by el principio sacarino , shaped the very process...

... of the Cuban Revolution. The book revisits classic studies about the effects of revolutionary policy on the agricultural economy, written by experts at the time—Jacques Chonchol, René Dumont, Michel Gutelman, Orlando Borrego, and Regino Boti, for example—rekindling debates about how Cuba transitioned...

... like Zeitlin who fail to perform as expected, though less severe than for the native, as, for instance, poet Heberto Padilla whose persecution I describe in my book (pp. 354-356). The example of erstwhile friends of Castro like René Dumont and K. S. Karol is instructive. When they criticized...

... recognizing the goals, accomplishments, and failures attributable in whole or in part to the Cuban leaders themselves; it has also kept him from making as many realistic reform proposals as René Dumont, another recent critic of the Revolution, in his Cuba: est-il socialiste? Yet Karol dares to challenge...

... and modernity, some loose, circular definitions, but no precise discussion of the terms and, certainly, no hook-up to the large relevant theoretical literature. (Louis Dumont is the closest to a theoretical authority; otherwise it is historical authorities who are favored: Furet, Chaunu, Cochin.) It looks very...