... was a trip down the Amazon River by dugout and canoe, starting on the Napo River in Ecuador. His writings reflect his far-ranging interests. Not content with the simple chronicling of past events, Frank Tannenbaum evidenced a predilection for the analytical examination of social institutions...

... and paradoxes, whose like we’ll not see again for many a day, if ever. Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 On April 23, scholars around the world received e-mails announcing the death of Andre Gunder Frank in Luxembourg at the age of 76. Hyperprolific and multilingual, Gunder produced over...

... (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), 3–45; and Helen Delpar, “Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Mexicanist, 1914-1933,” Americas 45:2 (Oct. 1988), 153–71. Maier and Weatherhead’s essay is undocumented, but they were in touch with Tannenbaum’s close friends, who undoubtedly provided information on his...

...). Elusive Eden tells the story of Frank McMullan’s efforts to establish a colony of Texans in Brazil in the years immediately following the U.S. Civil War, which ended in 1865. However, academic historians probably will not find this book to be directly relevant to their own interests in either Brazilian...

...Rollie E. Poppino Frank B. Kellogg and American Foreign Relations, 1925-1929 . By Ellis L. Ethan . New Brunswick , 1961 . Rutgers University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 303 . $7.50 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The title of this book suggests...

...Joel Wolfe As well respected as Frank was as a scholar and teacher, he was also known as a supportive, kind, and humorous colleague. His sense of irony and duty were developed in his grad school years. He had attended Niagara University as a ROTC student and was a second lieutenant in the army...

...André Gunder Frank A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development and Latin America . By Hirschman Albert O. . New Haven, Connecticut, and London, England , 1971 . Yale University Press . Tables. Figures. Index . Pp. x , 374 . Cloth. $12.50 . Politics and the Stages of Growth...

...Zephyr Frank Pivoting from the knowledge that conflict was constant and largely derived from local or regional causes, Langfur explores the sources of violence, the strategies of the parties involved, and the evolution of occupation in the Eastern Sertão. Part of the explanation for violence...

...Volker Frank Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 . By Stern Steve J. . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xxxi , 247 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . ©...

...Patrick Frank Mexico was indeed the seedbed for mural production across the hemisphere, and Mary K. Coffey’s valuable theoretical essay (“The ‘Mexican Problem’: Nation and ‘Native’ in Mexican Muralism and Cultural Discourse”) elucidates some of the discussions at the core of the mural movement...

...Volker Frank The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende: A Case of Assisted Suicide . By Haslam Jonathan . London : Verso , 2005 . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 225 pp. Cloth , $23.00 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 This volume...

...Zephyr Frank Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906 – 1930 . By Diacon Todd A. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 228 pp. Cloth , $74.95 . Paper...