... slopes, and the precariously perched fields and houses on them are breath-taking, the engineering feat that the railroad represents even more so. But Watt Stewart is a historian of men, not of the land, and the majesty of the country and man’s conquest of it largely passes him by. Since Keith...

...Jean Moore; Samuel T. Mcseveney Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Keith A. Davies, a scholar of colonial Peru and a former associate dean at Vanderbilt University, died September 21, 1994, of brain cancer. He was 53. Davies served Vanderbilt for nearly two decades...

...Robert G. Keith The most relevant comparison is with the Mexican Bajío, where David Brading has shown that a local peasantry also arose to compete with the haciendas, and where similar tendencies toward the fragmentation of haciendas were evident in the nineteenth century, though here...

...Robert G. Keith El indio en el Alto Perú a fines del siglo XVII . By Albornoz Nicholas Sánchez . Lima , 1973 . Seminario de Historia Rural Andina . Pp. 131 . Paper. Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Historical understanding of indigenous Andean societies has...

...Henry H. Keith O ciclo de Vargas . Vol. XI. 1939: Véspera de guerra . By Silva Hélio with Ribas Carneiro Maria Cecília . Rio de Janeiro , 1972 . Editôra Civilização Brasileira . Illustrations. Index . Pp. xiv , 469 . Paper. O ciclo de Vargas . Vol. XII. 1942: Guerra...

...Robert G. Keith This is a useful and interesting book on an important topic. The cofradías, or voluntary religious confraternities associated with the worship of saints, which often served also as mutual aid societies, played a major role in the social and economic life of colonial Latin America...

...Robert G. Keith The book is somewhat less successful in increasing our understanding of what Cushner terms “the commercial and rural world of Latin America” (p. 5). This is partly because the overall shortage of capital in the region meant that the heavily capitalized Jesuit enterprises were...

...Robert G. Keith Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620 . By Cook Noble David . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1981 . Tables. Figures. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 310 . Cloth . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The present book...

...Robert G. Keith But Varón raises interesting points about the connections between the Pizarros and certain indigenous groups (particularly the Indians of Huaylas—one of whom became Francisco’s first Indian mistress—and those of the Lima valley). Varón also makes a useful contribution to our...

...Robert G. Keith Landowners in Colonial Peru . By Davies Keith A. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1984 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Index . Pp. 237 . Cloth. $22.50 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 This well-documented monograph...

...Robert G. Keith Cartes des Amériques dans les collections de la Bibliothèque Royale Albert I er . By Elkhadem Hossam . Brussels : Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Index, xiii, 169 pp. Paper . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

...Robert G. Keith Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms: Agrarian Class Societies, Cuba and Peru . By Martínez-Alier Juan . London , 1977 . Frank Cass and Company . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 185 . Cloth . $19.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press...

...Robert Keith Perfil de la sociedad rural del Cuzco a fines de la colonia . By Mörner Magnus . Lima : Universidad del Pacífico , 1978 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. 186 . Paper . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 In this book...

...Henry Hunt Keith Militares e Política na América Latina: Um Balanço Histórico-Crítico Cinco Anos após a Queda de Allende . By Vicario Guido . Translated by Lamarão Sérgio . Rio de Janeiro : Editora Civilização Brasileira , 1979 . Bibliography . Pp. 227 . Paper...

...Henry Hunt Keith El poder militar en América Latina . By Comblin Joseph . Salamanca : Ediciones Sígueme , 1978 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 286 . Paper. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Conventional wisdom has it that a good book is more difficult to review...

...Robert G. Keith La economía de un desierto: Tarapacá durante la colonia . By Sergio Villalobos R . Santiago : Ediciones Nueva Universidad , 1979 . Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 278 . Paper. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 This monograph...

...Henry H. Keith Da Escola do Recife ao Código Civil (Artur Orlando e sua geração) . By Chacon Vamireh . Introduction by Goulart José Alípio . Rio de Janeiro , 1969 . Organização Simões . Coleção de Estudos Brasileiros, 1 . Appendices . Pp. 359 . Paper. Copyright 1972...

...Robert G. Keith This simplicity cuts both ways, however, since it is obtained in part by ignoring the vast amount of work that has been done on haciendas during the past ten years (the book was written in 1966 as part of a larger but never completed work on Mexican agriculture prior...

...Henry Hunt Keith The Bandit King: Lampiño of Brazil . By Chandler Billy Jaynes . College Station , 1978 . Texas A & M University Press . Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 262 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

...Robert G. Keith El Corregimiento de La Paz, 1548-1600 . By Alberto Crespo R . La Paz, Bolivia , 1972 . Editora Urquizo . Appendices . Pp. 176 . Paper. Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The number of Bolivians studying the colonial history of their country from...