...Donald E. Worcester Rip Ford arrived in Texas from South Carolina shortly after the battle of San Jacinto. His long career included many activities—doctor, lawyer, journalist, and soldier. His story of the Old Southwest and of the Mexican War, border troubles, and international maneuverings...

...Flávio Limoncic Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City . By Grandin Greg . New York : Metropolitan Books , 2009 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Index. xii , 416 pp. Cloth , $27.50 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The ideas...

...Thomas R. Ford A sixth chapter, on kinship relations in Brazil, is less useful to the general reader and probably not very informative for the specialist either. In the final essay, entitled “The Dilemma of the Middle Class,” Wagley returns to a more general theme. Actually he presents not one...

...Thomas Ford These two new additions to the rapidly growing literature on developing nations are quite different in style but cover much of the same territory. They also share at least one major theme: authoritarian regimes have not been very successful in their attempts to advance the social...

...Eileen M. Ford Receive Our Memories: The Letters of Luz Moreno, 1950–1952 . By José Orozco . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 265 pp. Paper , $21.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...

...Gut Stanton Ford Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Speeches, Responses, and Essays Critical and Historical . By Barker Eugene Campbell . Austin , 1954 . Eugene C. Barker History Center , Table. Appendix. Index . ...

...Thomas Ford Health Manpower in Peru. A Case Study in Planning . By Hall Thomas L. . Baltimore , 1969 . Johns Hopkins Press . The Johns Hopkins Monographs in International Health . Map. Tables. Notes. Appendices. Index . Pp. xiv , 281 . $6.50 . Copyright 1970 by Duke...

...Eileen M. Ford Espinosa provides a clearly written analysis of the influence of Jesuit organizations and the Catholic laity in Mexican society during a critical juncture of church-state relations in the twentieth century. His work will be of interest to scholars of the church, state politics...

...Robert A. Potash El patrón oro: 1880-1914. Inglaterra y Argentina . By Ford A. G. . Buenos Aires , 1966 . Instituto Torcuato Di Tella . Tables. Notes. Appendix. Index . Pp. 336 . Paper. $2.70 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 With the publication...

... of Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s ambitious and ultimately futile project to forge a site of mass rubber production in the Amazon, Ford’s goals largely mirrored those of Brazil’s ruling elites. Infamous for his efforts to closely control the lives and values of his employees, Ford saw his planned settlement...

... the entire work. The theme, that Argentina’s dependent economic structure has formed a powerful conditioning variable over political change which decisively limits options open to policy makers, is aptly chosen. Following Rock’s concise introduction, the work opens with economist A. G. Ford’s thoughtful...

...R. K. A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home . 3 vols. By Ford Richard . Carbondale , 1966 . Southern Illinois University Press . Centaur Classics . Illustrations. Maps. Index . Pp. xviii , 1507 . $50.00 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969...

... Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Santiago, Chile, has received a $113,400 grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant would assist FLACSO to strengthen its present master’s-level programs in sociology and political...

... within Brazil and without, where he succeeded in interfacing with international institutions. This included not only UNESCO but also the US foundations, most especially Ford and Rockefeller, that invested in the development of the social sciences during the Cold War. The foundations favored those who...

... have moved their headquarters to the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. Dr. Ione Stuessy Wright of the University of Miami has been named editor of the Journal , which is now in its sixth year of publication. In addition to the above, the Ford Foundation’s Overseas Development program...