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...Mira Wilkins Grace: W. R. Grace and Company, The Formative Years 1850-1930 . By Clayton Lawrence A. . Ottawa, IL : Jameson Books , 1986 . Maps. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 403 . Cloth . $22.50 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Lawrence...

... Casa Grace in Peru . By Burgess Eugene W. and Harbison Frederick H. . Washington, D. C. , 1954 . National Planning Association . United States Business Performance Abroad, 2 . Charts. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography . Pp. viii , 112 . $1.00 . Copyright 1955...

...Grace Peña Delgado Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico . By Fredy González . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 277 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University...

...Grace Lee Nute All three essays are heavily annotated and display great erudition in the field of Atlantic exploration, both before and after Columbus’ expeditions. An occasional lapse from the author’s commendable practice of translating his quotations from Portuguese sources makes now...

...Grace Lee Nute Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751 dans l’Amérique Septentrionale . By de Chabert M. . New York , 1966 . Johnson Reprint Corporation . Maps. Charts . Pp. viii , 288 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Por geographical details...

...Grace Beckett A Modern Foreign Policy for the United States . By Jones Joseph M. . ( New York : Macmillan Co. , 1944 . Pp. 94 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ...

... of Michael Grace set eyes on the tunnel and the railroad projects to connect Cerro de Pasco with the Peruvian capital. He was head of the Peruvian branch of a transnational trading and shipping company, Grace Brothers & Co., that had risen to prominence with the nitrate and guano trade between the 1850s...

... Backhouse, a youthful employee of the Foreign Office who was sent to Havana in 1853 to serve as a judge on a special court created decades before to handle cases that involved vessels seized for alleged violations of Anglo-Spanish antislave trade treaties. Backhouse arrived with his pregnant wife Grace...

... and graceful” (p. 96). The presumption that clarity and “grace” should be aesthetic goals for an author who identified as a native Andean culturally and linguistically portrays an apparent bias for the Western rhetorical tradition. Guaman Poma's “opacity” or lack of “grace” seems irrelevant, given...

... impacts on Latin America. De Secada explores how W. R. Grace & Co. became intimately involved in helping Peru during the War of the Pacific, while Randall recreates the operations of a British mining company, the Real del Monte, in postindependence Mexico. While Grace became rather intimately involved...

... individuals' expectations regarding the king's grace and to stress the importance of personal merit to the authorities who dispensed such patronage. This exaltation of merits and services is related to the theme of awarding subjects and lineages native to America, to which the author devotes considerable...

... with a sense of grace, irony, humor, and intelligence that prove absent in his son’s book. In this case, the gift of flexibility and insight seems to have graced the older generation, not the younger. At the same time, The Madness of Things Peruvian refuses to acknowledge the success of the Fujimori...

... again we find the pleasures we have come to expect from León-Portilla’s text: a graceful narration of the Aztec-Nahua story as traditionally understood; enlivened by rich, extended quotations; in his own notably beautiful translation from Nahua documents; and punctuated by the occasional astute semantic...

... and individualism as they affect government in Latin America. J. Peter Grace, president of W. R. Grace and Co., analyzes the role of private capital imports in stimulating the Latin American economy. Eudocio Ravines, a newspaperman from Lima, writes an essay on the role which ideology and the intellectuals play...

.... Peter Grace of Grace & Co., Charles Brinckerhoff of Anaconda, Juan Trippe of Pan American Airlines, and a representative of the Rockefeller interests sat on the Board of Directors.) While students of Latin American affairs might have welcomed still more candor, for example about the precise...

... not codified under the designation of “grace and justice” until 1754, precedent can be found for these functions in decrees of November 1717 and June 1751. 13 The first forbade the secretariats of the Council to send orders to the colonies in matters de gobierno , as this right henceforth belonged...

...Edward J. McCarthy The Reciprocal Trade Agreement Program . By Beckett Grace . ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1941 . Pp. xv , 142 . $2.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...C. L. Sonnichsen The New Texas Reader . Edited by Stanley Banks Z. C. and McMillan Grace Taylor . San Antonio , 1960 . The Naylor Company . Index. Illustrations . Pp. xix , 291 . $4.95 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...Lyle N. McAlister * The author is instructor in history at the University of Florida. The use of archival material in this paper was made possible through grants from the Grace and Henry Doherty Foundation and the Federal Security Agency, Office of Education—Ed. Copyright 1953 by Duke...

...J. Fred Rippy Calendar of Joel R. Poinsett Papers in the Henry D. Gilpin Collection . Edited by Heilman Grace E. and Levin Bernard S. . ( Philadelphia : The Historical Society of Pennsylvania , 1941 . Pp. xvi , 264 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...