...D. M. P. His Excellency, the Ambassador . By Veríssimo Érico . Translated by Barrett Linton Lomas and Barrett Marie McDavid . New York , 1967 . Macmillan Company . Pp. 439 . $6.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Gabriel Heliodoro Alvarado...

..., others are not. Clearly, authors differed in what they perceived as their objective: some offer brief overviews, while others present the results of extensive research. There is a general bibliography provided for the volume as a whole. A positive note is the excellent integration of maps, plans, views...

... use for nonexperts. Some of Samhaber’s interpretations might be questioned by specialists but in general the author has an excellent knowledge of Latin America and its history. The style and organization are excellent. The lack of notes and bibliography is a valid subject for criticism...

.... He told his stories to his eldest son while Muratorio tape-recorded the sessions. The stories run the gamut of topics, from hunting trips to Alonso’s relationship with the church and his recollections of the rubber boom years. He possesses an excellent memory, and though it is difficult to know...

...R. Herbert Minnich For the social scientist concerned about rural social problems Witmarsum serves as an example par excellence of agrarian reform in action. Less than twenty years ago, this land was a 20,000-acre ranch which supported one affluent family, plus a dozen poverty-stricken cowboys...

... institutes and government agencies both produce excellent quantitative materials and make them available on the Web. Most Brazilian Web sites offer good search functions, a crucial component of any site, and usually make it easy to download materials in either text, PDF, HTML, or spreadsheet formats (from...

... . Pp. lix , 736 . Paper. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 This volume forms part of the excellent series of documentary publications initiated by Germán Carrera Damas. Although the series and volume numbers are a bit confusing, this is the fourth volume in the series...

... in Brazilian literature, will introduce many of you to a major intellect. And an excellent introduction it is. Illuminating the depth and breadth of Joaquim Nabuco’s erudition, it demonstrates the integrity of his involvement, personal and intellectual, in the question of Brazilian slavery. His study is much...

...Michael D. Coe In addition to the above, this monograph deals with jade-working techniques and with a classification of Costa Rican jades. But beyond all this it is a beautiful piece of book production. The color photographs by Lee Boltin are so good in themselves and so excellently printed...

... pueblo. Rojas does an excellent job of informing the reader of this highly interesting area. The lack of bibliography, the scarcity of footnotes, and the poor black and white photographs are overcome by the sheer wealth of material, maps, and charts. The first volume thus graphically builds the stage...

.... Some of the pieces are preliminary but with useful bibliography and tentative hypotheses; others are reviews of published materials in a subfield of family history that guide us to recent writings and new conceptualizations. Gonzalbo’s excellent introduction directs us to the ideas and contents...

... in the conflict between the rural and urban dimensions of Argentine history touched on earlier in his excellent monograph Revolution on the Pampas: A Social History of Argentine Wheat (1964) and over a dozen articles in journals in the United States and Latin America. His latest book, virtually completed before...

...H. Micheal Tarver These two recent works provide an excellent account of selected aspects of Venezuela’s political and economic concerns, from the successful g olpe de estado of January 1958 to the unsuccessful one of February 1992. They are both welcome additions to the growing scholarship...

.... This book as the other one makes an excellent addition to help students understand the Latin American milieu. It should be put on the reserve list to be seen and consulted by our students. Naturally anyone interested in Latin America will also find it useful. There is quality and art in both books...

... system or cofradía received so little attention by social historians? They could benefit from the works of the anthropologists. Waldemar R. Smith’s Fiesta System is an excellent study of Mayan pueblos in western Guatemala, their social structure, their position within regional, national...

... labor, however, Zulawski believes that Pilaya y Paspaya began to manifest patterns that were distinct from those of Andean culture in general. This is an excellent book. Although Zulawski’s Marxist framework seems a bit dated and, to this reviewer, unnecessarily jargonized, she is a careful...

..., is to offer to modern readers three of the most interesting contemporary accounts of Magellan’s voyage. All three of these accounts have appeared before in excellent English translations and, in fact, Professor Nowell has used the best of these (J. A. Robertson’s translation of Pigafetta’s account...

... 2016 This excellent collection of essays was spurred by the quincentenary of Juan Ponce de León's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida and brings together contributions by scholars who participated in at least one of the three conferences sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council in 2012...

... deposits prompted the mutually debilitating Chaco War, 1932-1935, from which Paraguay gained land and Bolivia lost her last access to the sea. In the course of chronicling the shrinking boundaries of Bolivia, the author skillfully interweaves an excellent history of transportation, settlement...

... hinges on what Restall calls “the myth of exceptional men,” and the conquistador par excellence is Hernán Cortés. The archetypal myth developed fully only in the nineteenth century, after the publication of William Hickling Prescott’s The Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Prescott plotted his story around...