... volume what is known about Maceo. Foner views Maceo as a revolutionary bent on helping bring about Cuban independence from Spain and providing for the establishment of a racially democratic society. He has fallen in love with his subject, detailing Maceo’s military exploits and his political relations...

...Jane M. Rausch In his authoritative introduction and conclusion. Lynch surveys significant research trends since the 1960s. He finds the roots of Latin American independence in American interests rather than European influence, and he shows how a society split by race, caste, and regional...

...William Spence Robertson Foreign Interest in the Independence of New Spain. An Introduction to the War for Independence . By Rydjord John . ( Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press , 1935 . Pp. xii , 347 . Map. Index. $3.00 .) Copyright 1936 by Duke University Press...

...D.M.P. Simón Bolívar and Spanish American Independence, 1783-1830 . By Johnson John J. , with the collaboration of Ladd Doris M. . Princeton , 1968 . D. Van Nostrand Co . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 223 . Paper. $1.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press...

...W. H. Timmons The Hidalgo Revolt. Prelude to Mexican Independence . By Hamill Hugh M. Jr. Gainesville , 1966 . University of Florida Press . Map. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 284 . $7.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 As every...

... conquest, from European to a mixed culture, the coming of the seventeenth century, the baroque of the Indies, baroque learning, eighteenth-century Jesuitic humanism, and the eve of the struggle for independence. Picón-Salas’ thesis is that heritage played the dominant role in the historical evolution...

...David H. Zook, Jr. Sea Power and Chilean Independence . By Worcester Donald E. . Gainesville , 1962 . University of Florida Press . University of Florida Monographs. Social Sciences. No. 15 . Pp. 88 . Paper. $2.00 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Works...

...Fredrick B. Pike Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence. 1808-1833 . By Collier Simon . New York , 1967 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Latin American Studies . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 396 . $12.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969...

... career is not emphasized in this study, which is concerned primarily with his role in Chilean independence. Until recently neither Bernardo O’Higgins nor his illustrious father has received much attention from historians outside Latin America. That both deserve scholarly attention is made amply clear...

..., of the mestizo for the very fact of mestizaje . Indian and Spaniard had not mingled but had fused to create a new psychology and a new thought. The independence wars were fought in order to bring a new special order into being’’ (p. 36). But these superficial impressions and the routine attention...

... economic independence through industrialization in the twentieth century. This is followed by chapters dealing with special contemporary topics—the attempts at regional integration, changes in the structure of trade since World War II, the nature of international lending to Latin America, changes...

... of a particular line and of inherited characteristics, without analyzing the responsiveness between kinship and political systems. This essay examines one case during the independence period in Chile, that of elite families who won the right to imprint their values and the practices of kinship politics on the new...

...Charles Griffin Nariño. Hero of Colombian Independence . By Blossom Thomas . Tucson , 1967 . University of Arizona Press . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxix , 212 . $8.50 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Antonio Nariño is principally...

...William L. Neumann In Defense of Neutral Rights. The United States Navy and the Wars of Independence in Chile and Peru . By Billingsley Edward Baxter . Chapel Hill , 1967 . University of North Carolina Press . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 8 , 266 . $6.00 . Copyright...

... other than the four combatants in the War of the Triple Alliance also have failed to exploit this potentially rich field. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Independence or Death! The Story of the Paraguayan War . By Kolinski Charles J. . Gainesville , 1965 . University...

..., and between independence in the United States and Mexico. Recurrent international wars and international power and economic relationships, not simply the Spanish reform program, had most impact on what happened in Mexico in the late eighteenth century. Some distinctions should have been drawn here between...

...Charles W. Macune, Jr. José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis . By Hawkins Timothy . Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press , 2004 . Maps. Bibliography. Index . xxviii , 283 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . ©...

... coherence by retelling the wars of independence through the eyes of leaders comes at the expense of a more thorough exploration of the many kinds of political experiments under way in the same period. While Bolívar and San Martín come alive, Americanos leaves largely unexplored why anyone followed...

...Vitor Izecksohn Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s – 1840s . By Kraay Hendrik . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 362 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2006...

...Peter Blanchard Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 In 1815, as warfare raged throughout Spanish South America and an increasing number of the inhabitants, regardless of race or class, began accepting the idea of independence, a Venezuelan black named Juan Izaguirre was telling...