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... Marcy & the Gold Seekers: the Journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy with an Account of the Gold Bush over the Southern Route . By Foreman Grant . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1939 . Pp. xiv , 433 . Map. $3.00 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...John Howland Rowe The gold of Peru. Masterpieces of goldsmith’s work of pre-Incan and Incan time and the colonial period . By Gallo Miguel Mujica . Recklinghausen , 1959 . Aurei Bongers Verlag . 144 color plates . Pp. 296 . [Available at Herder Book Center, 7 West 46th Street, N.Y...

... California Gold Rush Voyages, 1848-1849 . Edited by Pomfret John Edwin . San Marino, California , 1954 . Huntington Library . Maps . Pp. x , 246 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Robin L. Anderson At the End of the Rainbow? Gold, Land, and People in the Brazilian Amazon . By Macmillan Gordon . New York : Columbia University Press , 1995 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xvii, 199 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Paper...

...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...

...Thomas Bader Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 . By Monaghan Jay . Berkeley , 1973 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 312 . Cloth. $11.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Despite the imprint...

...Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 In Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage , historian Sherwin K. Bryant reclaims the role of slavery as a governing practice in colonial Quito, a region with a relatively small number of slaves. Perhaps for this reason...

...Iván Rivero Hernández [email protected] Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World . Edited by Thomas B. F. Cummins . I Tatti Research Series . Florence : I Tatti–The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance...

...José C. Canales Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Sugar, Gold, and Coffee. Essays on the History of Brazil Based on Francis Hull’s Books . By Reichmann Felix . Ithaca, New York , 1959 . Cornell University Library . The Francis Hull Library of Braziliana...

...Clifford Evans Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Buried Gold & Anacondas . By Blombeeg Rolf . Translated by Lyon F. H. . New York , 1959 . Thomas Nelson & Sons . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 144 . Cloth . $5.00 . ...

... will note this influence on the notes and editorial comments. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 On Education: Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and Writings for Children from “The Age of Gold” . By Martí José . Edited by Foner Philip S. . Translated...

...Elizabeth Kuznesof Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais . By Higgins Kathleen J. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press : 1999 . Photographs. Graphs. Tables. Appendixes...

...Stephen Haber British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 . By Eakin Marshall C. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1990 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. xxiii...

...Charles Wagley Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians . By Hemming John . Cambridge , 1978 . Harvard University Press . Maps. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 677 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

...S.P.B. The accounts also describe the voyage from Valparaíso to the Golden Gate; hope, frustration and tragedy in the gold fields; and the carnival-like society of San Francisco and Sacramento. Detail and illustration are rich throughout the accounts, and historians both of Latin America...

...Jason M. Colby Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush . By Mcguinness Aims . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 249 . Cloth , $35.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University...

...John Jay Tepaske The Gold and Silver of Spanish America, c. 1572–1648; Tables Showing Bullion Declared for Taxation in Colonial Treasuries, Remittances to Spain, and Expenditures for Defense of Empire . By Sluiter Engel . Berkeley : The Bancroft Library, University of California...

...David Buisseret The Worlds of Christopher Columbus . By Phillips William D. Jr , and Phillips Carla Rahn . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . Plates. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 322 pp. Cloth . $27.95 . Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade...

..., but the historian H. H. Bancroft cites the names of twenty-one confirmed participants, plus fourteen probable participants. William B. Ide, one of the leaders, places the figure at thirty-two to thirty-four; other contemporaries give comparable figures. For all its shortcomings, Fool’s Gold offers enjoyable...

...C. R. Boxer The Funnel of Gold . By Peterson Mendel . Boston , 1975 . Little, Brown and Company . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 481 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The dust jacket of this book claims inter...