...James A. Sandos Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain . By ROBERT H. JACKSON. Scottsdale, AZ...

...Xenia V. Wilkinson Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988. By seth garfield. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper,$19.95. 2003 by...

...Zephyr Frank By hal langfur. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Illustrations. Map. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 408 pp. Paper, $27.95. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Book Reviews General and Sources Extending the Frontiers...

... pages. Its pages (and CD-­ROM) will interest many who study and teach Latin American history and public culture. seth fein, Yale University doi 10.1215/00182168-­2010-­054 The Russian-­Mexican Frontier: Mexican Documents Regarding the Russian Establishments in California, 1808 – 1842. By w...

... this maxim from his mother. Several decades later, he recalled it as the moral compass that guided his extraordinary career. Jacinto grew up as a free person of color in the household of Joseph de Molina, a Spanish officer assigned to the frontiers of the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in...

...Nichole Sanders For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community on Mexico’s Northern Frontier, 1800–1850 . By Shelton Laura M. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 206 pp. Paper , $49.95 . Copyright 2012 by...

...Andrés Reséndez Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas . By Lawson Russell M. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 262 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright...

...Matthew Restall In the eighteenth century there was increasingly endemic flight by black slaves out of British logging camps and settlements in Belize across the colonial frontier into Yucatan and other adjacent Spanish territories. This article explores the evidence for this phenomenon, its...

...Reena N. Goldthree The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 . By Candlin Kit . Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvi, 247 pp. Cloth , $89.10 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Thomas D. Rogers La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory . By Klubock Thomas Miller . Radical Perspectives . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 385 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright...

...Julio Djenderedjian Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Roots of Revolution: Frontier Settlement Policy and the Emergence of New Spaces of Power in the Río de la Plata Borderlands, 1777 – 1810 Julio Djenderedjian In the last years before the independence revolutions...

... drugs can open new frontiers at the center of our field. “Drugs,” at least the criminalized, menacing kind, are everywhere in twenty-first-century dispatches about Latin America. The Andean region, despite decades of US-sponsored drug war, still exports some 600 metric tons of illicit cocaine a...

... dedicates the following four chapters to explaining the Paraguayan elite's idea of nationalism and the Chaco frontier. Given that Paraguay does not have a central archive for the period, Chesterton has done an admirable job tracking down sources in order to document how the liberal elite justified...

...Heidi V. Scott Abstract The late colonial mapping of frontiers in the eastern Andes of Charcas (colonial Bolivia) has been neglected both in scholarship on frontier mapping, which overlooks this region, and historical studies of frontier formation in Charcas, which pay little attention to...

...Jeffrey C. Mosher Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889. By judy bieber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 253 pp. Cloth, $45.00. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.2-06...

...Hal Langfur 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late Colonial Brazil Hal Langfur The major gold and diamond strikes of the late seventeenth and early eigh- teenth centuries produced an unprecedented...

...Kathleen Ross Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest. By josé rabasa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 359 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper,$19.95. 2002...

...Cynthia Radding The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycurúan Experience. By james schofield saeger. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $50.00. 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Book Reviews...