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... eliminated and breeds improved; new roads were built to reach formerly inaccessible areas of infection; and modern technology was introduced. In a well-documented presentation based almost entirely on primary sources, Machado details the crises caused by fiebre aftosa (foot-and-mouth disease) in Mexico...

...B. Carmon Hardy Aftosa: A Historical Survey of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Inter-American Relations . By Machado Manuel A. Jr. Albany , 1969 . State University of New York Press . Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 182 . $10.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke...

...Cheryl J. Foote Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806–1848 . By Hyslop Stephen G. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 514 pp. Cloth, $34.95 . Copyright 2004...

...Maria-Aparecida Lopes; Paolo Riguzzi Abstract This article analyzes the livestock exchange between the United States and Mexico, beginning with the initial surge in regular trade in the 1870s until its interruption caused by the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in 1947. Since the final two...

... the Mexican outbreak in global context. The outbreak encouraged the development of scientific knowledge in Mexico and integrated the country into a global geography of not only foot-and-mouth disease but also its containment, based on the establishment of research centers in places such as Palo Alto, as well...

... ethnolinguistic labels applied to the indigenous peoples of the Chaco, while Foote concludes her chapter on Ecuador with the emergence of social movements expressing black and Indian consciousness. Sanders, Carey, and Crow all provide examples of violent struggles strengthening some indigenous identities even...

..., the pamphlet states The Findings, pp. 7-19 summarizes same, 19-21 and outlines their significance, 21-28. The tabular data makes up the remainder, pp. 29-41 save three pages of notes, foot to several leading authorities, newspaper writers, and commentators all ranked on an equal footing. Neither here nor...

... . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The author of this study is a product of the German University of Prague, with a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and he is at present Assistant Professor of Geography at that institution. In 1960 he crisscrossed the Upper Amazon Basin on foot...

... was perhaps the only truly Argentine one. His selection of whipping-boys is equally disparate. Rivadavia was “a reformer who never existed” (I, 79). Rosas was politically “a reactionary from head to foot, insensitive to progress” (I, 137). Mitre’s presidency was “a disaster” (I, 254), his government “sinister...

... carried on the Boltonian tradition of following the subject s trail foot by foot, documenting every incident. The printing job done for the California Historical Society makes this book a fine item of Californiana. George Tays. Berkeley, California. The Folkways of Brazil . A Bibliography. Compiled by Rex...

... foot by foot, documenting every incident. The printing job done for the California Historical Society makes this book a fine item of Californiana. George Tays. Berkeley, California. The Folkways of Brazil . A Bibliography. Compiled by Rex Gorham; edited by Karl Brown. (New York: The New York Public Li­...

..., the sixteenth-century legua legal has generally been accepted as about equal to 4.18 or 4.19 km.—the former based on a vara of 836 mm., the latter on one of 838 mm. (Doursther, Dictionnaire , pp. 567–568). 5 Obtained by taking the Castilian foot of 278.6 mm. and multiplying it by 20,000 feet (or 4,000...

... by Duke University Press 1968 Arriving at Santa Marta in August 1852, Isaac F. Holton crossed Colombia by steamer, mule train, and foot. He made his exit at Buenaventura twenty months later with 1800 plant specimens and a bulging diary. In editing this diary, C. Harvey Gardiner abridged the text...

..., became interested in the ancient Maya civilization. His youthful enthusiasm led him to plan an exploration of the little known coast of Quintana Roo. By boat, but mostly on foot, equipped with only a disarming naïveté and good luck, he traveled from Puerto Juárez to British Honduras, with side trips...

... was at the relevant time a ten-year-old Haitian mulatto, the other did not set foot on the island until he landed with Leclerc’s army ten years later. Some uncertainty in handling French and native Haitian sources is apparent in the omissions and misspellings of French titles in the bibliography, and such oddities...

...Warren Dean Trem fantasma. A modernidade na selva . By Hardman Francisco Foot . São Paulo : Companhia das Letras , 1988 . Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 291 . Paper. Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 This is an investigation of the process...

... literature on troubled Cuba. Thanks to Fidel Castro, and more recently to Che Guevara, new books on Cuba would fill to overflowing the proverbial five-foot shelf. Most of them are journalese, and some of them deserve little more permanence than yesterday’s newspaper. That is decidedly not the case...

... Press 1980 Burrowed into a mountain outside of Salt Lake City are vaults holding an historical treasure of staggering size. Over one million, 100-foot rolls of filmed manuscripts—with the number growing rapidly—from forty-two countries have been collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah...

.... So he thrust his foot through the screen. In one of her recent articles in the New Yorker, Alma Guillermoprieto tells how Brazilians became obsessed with the real-life murder of Daniella Perez, star of fictional telenovelas, while the impeachment of a real president took on the aura of a fictional...

...Robebt M. Levine Flora Süssekind joins the literary critics and cultural historians—José Paulo Paes, Francis Foot Hardman, Nicolau Sevcenko, among others—who have been reinterpreting the post-Modernist emergence of Brazilian culture. Not only has a new generation of scholars surfaced...