...Sam W. Haynes Despite its somewhat misleading title, A Glorious Defeat offers a cogent and well-written narrative of the early Mexican republic, a formative period that continues to shape Mexico’s national identity and relations with the United States in innumerable ways. As a study...

... a purpose here to pen a popular account of revolutionary leaders and movements. For example, Agramonte is described as a noble martyr whose “glorious death” made him a veritable “Bayard.” All leaders are “titans” and the uprising is “la Gran Revolución.” Miniscule activities in the span of Cuban history...

... and discouragement at the state of the nation, the possibility of improvement was also seen. Carrera Damas attempts to show, though with only middling success, that it was in the context of the search for solutions to Venezuela’s plight that the cult of Bolívar took root, for the possibility of a glorious future...

... to English-style parliaments misses the point that existing constitutional constraints elsewhere also resulted in limited government. Hence, their conclusion that the Glorious Revolution caused the English financial revolution and superior economic performance is spurious because the basic assumptions...

... about “ferocissimas gentes,” Cos added the following: “You yourself, relying on that divine strength that made the Apostles undertake joyfully such labors, have decided to assume so great a task, considering your life more gloriously and more saintly employed in the salvation of so many souls, so...

... another contribution to that glorious debate— la leyenda negra— that has been going on from the time of Las Casas. In this respect the author is a partisan contributor, as he writes forcefully about the “fanaticism” and “irrationalism” of the racial stereotypes that circulated throughout Spanish society...

... agencies administering indigenous affairs. The second group, called utopian, rejects modern mestizo Mexico as well as all occidental influence. A mystical ideology based on notions of the glorious past and an imminent coming of the Nahuas was formulated by the movement’s dynamic leader, Rodolfo Nieva...

..., a debt which started when Abraham Crijnsen in a glorious attack took Fort Willoughby and renamed it Fort Zeelandia in 1667” (p. 729). The choice of 1942 as the final year of the trilogy is not altogether convincing. According to Goslinga history becomes political science with the last forty years...

.... They make the relationships between the papacy and the kings of Spain, and between the Council of Trent and New World Church reforms clearer than previous works have done. The tone of the work is irenic rather than polemic; its professed purpose is to make the Spanish-speaking world aware of a glorious...

... of preconquest society and at the same time christianize these “unspoiled” peoples, then they had a small but glorious chance of building a utopia, a kingdom of God which would last a thousand years, and would prepare for the second coming of Christ and the redemption of the world as predicted in the apocalypse...

... and military operations of the two great European powers were moderately swashbuckling (a blockade of Buenos Aires, the capture of Martín García Island, a naval-commercial foray up the Paraná River), but got them absolutely nowhere. Actually, the intervention was a glorious muddle from start to finish...

... extinction. Throughout the pages of this well-documented study, Demerson tells us about the modest efforts made by a small group of fairly enlightened citizens to bring some progress and modernization to the practical aspects of life in the glorious but conservative city of Teresa de Cepeda...

... of the book summarizes the glorious deeds of the Portuguese in Morocco, the Congo, the East, and Brazil. The rest is mainly concerned with the royal family. Miss Sanceau makes free use of snippets of contemporary local colour, and the observations are perceptive in a lady-like way. She notes that most...

... and the Philippines; however, the most interesting article, from the Latin Americanists’ point of view, is the one by Franklin W. Knight which gives us “A Colonial Response to the Glorious Revolution in Spain: the Grito de Yara” that is to say, the movement towards Cuban independence begun by Carlos Manuel de...

...-Hispanic origins, Bierhorst believes that they are an entirely new type: an integral part of a Nahua revitalization movement, dating from the midsixteenth century. He asserts that the Cantares emphasize “the return of ancestor kings, the glorious revival of the warrior ethic, and the re-creation...

... a politics of equilibrium by playing off Castilian against Marinids and waiting out periods of Castilian agressiveness by paying the traditional tribute or by skirmishing on the frontier. The Kingdom of Granada has generally been neglected by students of Spanish Islam in favor of the more glorious days...

... enjoyed tax centralization relatively early on; later the Glorious Revolution established limited government, giving creditors the ability to wield a veto over financial policies. As a result, Britain could borrow nearly without limit, sparking a broad-based financial revolution. 19 Old regime France...

..., textbook treatments of state histories. Because of his artful writing, Sheridan leads us to think about the land and people of Arizona in a new way. He is carrying on a brief but glorious historical and literary tradition pioneered by Paul Horgan. Sheridan is in love with his subject, but the lyrical...

... survey leads Favre to the conclusion that “less than a reflection of a glorious tradition . . . Indian culture is the expression of ignominious conditions of existence, defined by the national society . . .” (p. 342). “To accept the Indian is to justify implicitly the domination which created him...

... in binding together the symbolic complex of iron, warfare, and kingship. Amid vast movements of populations, Ogun “provided a metaphor through which people [in these great, militaristic states] reflected on the historical milestones of their development—from first clearing the land to living in a glorious...