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...Lester D. Langley Simón Bolívar’s Quest for Glory . By Slatta Richard W. and De Grummond Jane Lucas . Texas A&M University Military History Series, no. 73 . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Glossary...

...Robert L. Paquette Fatal Glory: Narciso López and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba . By Chaffin Tom . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1996 . Plates. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xxii , 282 pp. Cloth . $34.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke...

... of this nature it may be too much to ask that the illustrations contribute to the text—but surely, then, the text should systematically relate to and supplement the pictures. Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Twilight of Ancient Peru. The Glory and Decline of the Inca Empire...

...J. H. Parry Gold, Glory, and the Gospel. The Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers . By Wright Louis B. . New York , 1970 . Atheneum . Index . Pp. xvi , 362 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The subtitle of Mr. Wright’s...

... . Serie Histórica Ilustrada . Illustrations . Pp. 188 . Paper. Pocketbook reprints of editions first published in Paris about 1913. (E.V.N.) Taste of Glory . By Beals Carleton . New York , 1956 . Crown Publishers, Inc . Pp. 311 . $3.50 . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press...

...William Spence Robertson Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 Man of Glory. Simón Bolívar . By Rourke Thomas . ( New York : Morrow and Co. , 1939 . Pp. xiii , 395 . Illustrations 6 . Map. $3.50 .) ...

... Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes . By Rourke Thomas . ( New York : William Morrow & Company , 1941 . Pp. xvi , 320 . $2.75 .) Man of Glory: Simón Bolívar . By Rourke Thomas . ( New York : William Morrow & Company , 1941 . Pp. xi , 385 . $2.75 .) Copyright...

...C. Norman Guice For Science and National Glory. The Spanish Scientific Expedition to America, 1862-1866 . By Miller Robert Ryal . Norman , 1968 . University of Oklahoma Press . Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 194 . $5.95 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University...

... the facts from a localized viewpoint. Readers who want a most interesting story covering a fascinating period in the history of an important state in the Union, will find their wish fulfilled in Adventure in Glory . As this is a popular history Professor Connor has not burdened it with such scholarly...

...Camilla Townsend For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz, 1797–1856 . By Murray Pamela S. . Foreword by Pike Fredrick B. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2008 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 222 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...John D. French 12. Edward L. Cox, review of Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 , by Emília Viotti da Costa, African American Review 31, no. 1 (1997): 140; Franklin W. Knight, review of Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823...

...Roger Davis Both studies beg the question of Bolívar’s relationship to the intellectual climate of the times. Torres explores the genius of the Liberator in terms of an environment of war and the conquest of glory, but avoids any discussion of how this intellect dealt with the issues and ideas...

... which follows—just the sort of thing which causes college-level history students to groan that they have heard all this at least three times before. Gold, glory, and the gospel are the reasons usually given for the descubrimiento y conquista and Morales Padrón would subscribe to the last two...

... glory with his stunning victory at Pensacola to have gained posthumous recognition as an honorary citizen of the United States. Bernardo's father, Matías, became viceroy of New Spain. And José's two other brothers, Miguel and Antonio, were also men of substance. The Gálvezes derived from the obscure...

..., the volume is an important and valuable bibliographical guide for the area of Greek studies, both for the Hispanicist and the classicist. The introduction by d’Olwer is a rather valuable history of Greek scholarship in Spain during the Renaissance. The maudlin preface by Phil Conley on the glory of ancient...

...N. Ray Gilmore The Alamo . By Tinkle Lon . New York , 1958 . The New American Library . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. vi , 176 . Paper . $0.35 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 This reprint of 13 Days to Glory , timed to appear with John Wayne’s “The Alamo...

... the continuity of grief symbolized in a fountain or contrast Spain’s former glory and present misery in the famous lines, “Miserable Castile, who yesterday did reign,/wrapped now in rags . . .” (p. 121). Recurring images and cycles (the changing of seasons and of the day, water, the mountains, and other natural...

... after the Pizarros. Alvarados, and de Sotos, lesser-known conquistadors tramped Latin America’s wildernesses in search of gold and glory. Like their predecessors, they fought among themselves and were plagued by the conflicting jurisdictions of viceroys and audiencias. Varela, himself, fought...

... and sentimentalists, the Alamo has been given serious treatment twice within the past couple of years. First, Lon Tinkle wrote the story of the Alamo in relationship to an inexorable Greek tragedy in his Thirteen Pays to Glory , and now comes Walter Lord with a more strict reportorial and recreative job in A Time...

... the book is brief, it is filled with the author’s patriotic zest for, and interest in, the career of this Frenchman from the Provençal area. An almost innate hatred for Spain, a strong call of the sea, and the opportunities for glory and service to his espoused country of the United Provinces of the Río de...