...J. F. K. The Rise of the Spanish American Empire . By de Madariaga Salvador . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1947 . Pp. xix , 408 . Illustrations . $5.00 .) The Fall of the Spanish American Empire . By de Madariaga Salvador . ( New York : The Macmillan Company...

..., as the Venetians found out earlier. It has often seemed surprising that the Netherlands with their small population could maintain the world’s largest navy and merchant marine, conduct European wars often calling for sizable armies, and hold, if in some cases only temporarily, an empire extending from Brazil...

...J. H. Parry The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century. Bureaucratic Politics in the Spanish Empire . By Phelan John Leddy . Madison , 1967 . University of Wisconsin Press . Illustrations. Maps. Chart. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi . $10.00 . Copyright 1968 by Duke...

...Engel Sluiter The Spanish Seaborne Empire . By Parry J. H. . New York , 1966 . Alfred A. Knopf . The History of Human Society . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 416 . $6.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 From birth pangs to death rattle...

...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...

...Stanley J. Stein Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 . By Boxer C. R. . London , 1963 . Oxford University Press . Notes. Index . Pp. 136 . 15s . Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 In acquiring an empire in the sixteenth century...

... important, the Prussian wanted to make impossible the political and military recovery of Austria after the Italian war of 1859. It was well known that Emperor Francis Joseph, harassed by movements of nationalism and separatism, despaired of ruling his empire and often considered abdication...

...Thomas F. McGann A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru . By Baudin Louis . Transl. by Woods Katherine . Ed. by Goddard Arthur . New York , 1961 . D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc . Bibliography. Maps. Index . Pp. xxii , 442 . $8.00 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University...

...Thomas F. Lynch Twilight of Ancient Peru. The Glory and Decline of the Inca Empire . By Lieselotte and Theo Engl . Translated by Jaffe Alisa . New York , 1969 . McGraw-Hill Book Company . Illustrations. Maps. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 216 . $12.00...

...Bailey W. Diffie The Portuguese Seaborne Empire: 1415-1825 . By Boxer C. R. . New York , 1969 . Alfred A. Knopf . The History of Human Society . Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxvi , 415 , xiv . $8.95 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University...

...James H. Shideler Admirals of American Empire . By West Richard W. Jr. ( Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1948 . Pp. 354 . Maps. Illustrations.) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...D. M. P. Enterprise & Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England 1575-1630 . By Rabb Theodore K. . Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1967 . Harvard University Press . Tables. Bibliography. Appendix. Index . Pp. xii , 420 . $12.50 . Copyright 1968 by Duke...

...Ralph de Bedts Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 The Rising American Empire . By Alstyne R. W. Van . New York , 1960 . Oxford University Press . Maps. Index . Pp. ix , 215 . $6.00 . ...

...Nicole von Germeten Passing to América: Antonio (Née María) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire . By Thomas A. Abercrombie University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary...

..., and how they have conditioned the future of these societies in the contemporary world” (p. 220). The third section of Rethinking Atlantic Empire is made up of five chronological chapters inspired by Schmidt-Nowara's multifaceted contributions to Spanish imperial and Atlantic historiographies. Emily...

... and unclear. The book will be of interest to scholars who work on antislavery and abolition in the Spanish empire, but it brings little new to their table. In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870 . By Jesús Sanjurjo . Atlantic...

...Sonia Alconini Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire . By Goldstein Paul S. . New World Diasporas . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx...

...Alejandra Bronfman Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean . By Buscaglia-Salgado José . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Index . xxv , 340 pp. Cloth , $63.95 . Paper , $22.95 . Copyright 2006 by Duke...

...), as normalized citizens formed in institutions, or as the subjects of legal and religious prescriptions. However, as this volume shows, we can learn much about social practices, normative views of childhood, labor systems, and indeed the building and maintaining of empire through the study of the smallest...

... of the discourse. The latter possibility suggests the complexity of the problem, and that exposing the self-interest of white elites will not be enough. In any event, Culture of Empire is an important book. González widens our perspective on the transnational context of policy toward Mexican immigration...