.... Gunder’s life had cinematic sweep. Born Andrew Frank in 1929 Berlin, the son of a leftist Jewish intellectual who chose exile when Hitler came to power, he was raised abroad in Switzerland and the United States. Gunder worked from adolescence as a liquor store clerk and beachcomber and later supported...

...Joel Wolfe Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Frank McCann died on Good Friday 2021, in Durham, New Hampshire, of complications from a stroke. Frank was a highly productive and widely admired historian of twentieth-century Brazil. His broad interests in history and anthropology...

...). 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...

...Stanley R. Ross During his last years, marred by a near fatal mugging attack, the loss of his wife, and prolonged illness, Frank Tannenbaum was still busily at work on multiple projects. Among these he planned two volumes of his principal essays: one, The Balance of Power in Society , appeared...

... a study of Frank B. Kellogg as Secretary of State and a review of the problems of United States foreign relations during the Coolidge era. He has succeeded in writing a fine account of the office of Secretary of State during Kellogg’s incumbency and in recreating much of the climate of opinion—official...

... that Tannenbaum would accept the incorporationist philosophy of official Mexican indigenismo. Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 A mong historians of Latin America, Frank Tannenbaum enjoys the reputation of a pioneer, especially in two areas. His monograph The Mexican Agrarian Revolution...

...Lina Britto [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Frank Safford at Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program events wearing a helmet, a reflective vest, and ankle straps after having locked his bike on a rack nearby was a common sight. It did...

...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...

...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 The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750 – 1830 . By Langfur Hal . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2006 . Illustrations. Map. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv...