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...Ann Twinam What impresses one most is the persistence of four themes as relevant to the eighteenth- as to the twentieth-century Santa Marta region, namely, drugs, contraband, lost Indian civilizations, and neglect. The Jesuit enthusiastically recommends the development of coca exports...

...Allan J. Kuethe Despite much local planning, most higher authorities and military engineers doubted that Santa Marta possessed sufficient economic importance to justify turning it and its difficult, open bay into a full-fledged defense complex. Consequently, its fortifications consistently were...

... independencia en la costa atlántica: Obra premiada en el concurso ordenado por la ley 12 de 1972, con motivo del 450° aniversario de la fundación de Santa Marta . Edited by Tisnés Roberto M. J. CMF . Bogotá : Editorial Kelly , 1976 . Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. 444 . Paper. Segundo Congreso...

...Louis Necker Die Spanisch-Indianische auseinandersetzund in der nördlichen Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1501-1600 . By Bischof Henning . Bonn , 1971 . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, 1 . Maps. Tables. Appendices . Pp. 518 . Paper...

...James Alexander Robertson Historia de la Provincia de Sancta Marta y nuevo Reino de Granada . 3 vols. By de Aguado Pedro . ( Madrid , Espasa-Calpe, S.A. , 1930 . Pp. 455 ; 447 ; 424 . Paper .) Copyright 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 ...

... Historia de la provincia de Santa Marta . 2 vols . By Tirado Ernesto Restrepo . Bogotá , 1953 . Ministerio de Educación Nacional . Ediciones de la Revista Bolívar . Pp. 438 , 408 . Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...Renée Soulodre-la France Identidades e independencia en Santa Marta y Riohacha, 1750 – 1850 . By Saether Steinar A. . Colección Año 200 . Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia , 2005 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography . 300 pp. Paper . Copyright...

... of data on the cities and their respective transportation links with the interior, in the course of which Nichols describes (but never wholly explains) the fleeting primacy of Santa Marta around the middle of the last century, discusses the secular decline and subsequent recovery of Cartagena, and also...

...Duvon C. Corbitt Marta Abreu: Una mujer comprendida . By Camacho Pánfilo D. . ( Habana : Seoane, Fernández y Cía. [Editorial Trópico] , 1947 . Pp. 223 .) Copyright 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 ...

...George C. Vaillant Archaeology of Santa Marta, Colombia . By Mason J. Auden . Appendix on Ceramic Technology by Horton Donald . [ Anthropological Series, Field Museum of Natural History, Vol. XX, No. 3 .] ( Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History , 1939 . Pp. 275 - 418...

...Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara Abstract In 1711, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a Maya couple in the small town of Santa Marta, before wondrously transforming into a miraculous image that began to draw pilgrims from across highland Chiapas. Presuming fraud, church officials confiscated the image...

... into action from the most marginalized rural and urban sectors of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and La Guajira region. Soon they constituted a new entrepreneurial class whose profile as successful merchants was articulated as a regional masculine identity found in popular expressions such as vallenato...

...Marta Irurozqui Indios, mujeres y ciudadanos: Legislación y ejercicio de la ciudadanía en Bolivia (siglo XIX) . By Romano Rossana Barragán . La Paz : Fundación Diálogo , 1999 . Bibliography. 63 pp. Paper . Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Rossana Barragán Romano...

...Marta Cehelsky The Agricultural Development of Brazil . Schuh G. Edward . New York, Washington, and London , 1970 . Praeger Publishers . Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development . Tables. Bibliography . Pp. xxxiii , 456 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright...

...Marta Cehelsky A Reforma agrária no Brasil. Frustração camponesa ou instrumento de desenvolvimento? By Gomes Da Silva José . Rio de Janeiro , 1971 . Zahar Editores . Tables . Pp. 284 . Paper. Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 José Gomes da Silva has made...

...Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 . By Joseph Gilbert M. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1982 . Illustrations. Notes. Tables. Figures. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 405 . Cloth...

...Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt The Tzutujil Mayas: Continuity and Change, 1250-1630 . By Orellana Sandra . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1984 . Notes. Figures. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 287 . Cloth. $32.50 . Copyright 1985 by Duke University...

...Marta Zambrano Escovar Elegantly written, jargon-free, and well organized, this book provides enjoyable and instructive reading for a wide range of students and academics, from undergraduates to specialists. Spanish-speaking readers and colonialists, however, might not feel at ease with Burn’s...

...Marta Cehelsky It is, perhaps, partly the struggle to coordinate evidence and conclusions based on disparate observations that contributes to the work being overly long and occasionally obtuse. In all, however, these problems, when measured against the scope and accomplishments of the study...