... has made virtually no mention of pre-1959 policies, many aspects of post-1959 slum clearance grew directly from earlier initiatives. These policies were shaped by two overlapping types of disputes: those about property, and those about poverty. Over time, officials sought to neutralize activism around...

... more about the Nahua worldview, this article uses methods derived from philology, cognitive linguistics, and anthropology to reconstruct the meaning that nezahualiztli had for the precontact Nahua. I review numerous mentions of this ritual in the sources and discuss three examples involving...

... consists of a preface, some 15 chapters with a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an epilogue, a selection of the most important Miranda documents, and a chronology. In the preface the author mentions that he developed an interest in the topic after he read an article written by Anna Seghers, after...

... thing; making sense of it all is another. Eakin opts for a sweeping chronological approach, charting the successive generations just mentioned and, for the twentieth century, the rolling waves of historiographical fashion: the early dominance of political history; the rise of socioeconomic analysis...

... on sixteenth-century Spain and its empire, most attention seems to focus on matters of special interest to the author. In many ways, the bibliographical essay following the text is the most valuable part of the book, mentioning and briefly commenting on a wide range of works in several languages...

... precisely to contemporary debates because it lacks a research problem. What Tous Mata does is a bibliographical compilation of what has been done. For example, the cultural area of Gran Nicoya is strongly questioned today. She mentions that fact, offers a few existing considerations about it, includes other...

... of many intellectuals who praised Fidel Castro publicly in the early 1960s and went on to support student rebellion in Latin America later in the decade. Yet Colombia’s “guerrilla priest,” Camilo Torres Restrepo, never mentions French influence in what he terms the marginal influence of Latin American...

... deconstructs. Without empirical counterweights, his argument too often rests on suggestions and assertions. Given San Miguel’s approach to power and historiography and his focus on the works of “men of letters,” there is little mention of heterodox historiographies. Indeed, the title may be misleadingly...

... of all, however, two details of the book's orientation and structure are worth mentioning. The volume focuses on the fiscal dimension of the Bourbon reforms, which was the center of the whole process. Tax collection was critical in the Iberian world, but not just in terms of the well-known relationship...

... against Vargas’s government, and when released in 1945, obeyed the party in proclaiming his support of the Vargas regime. Liss mentions neither fact. In Colombia, Liss writes, Father Camilo Torres demonstrated his belief that the church should not be anti-Communist “by accepting the support...

... between eight million in 1492 and four million in 1496. Peter Martyr mentioned a famine about this time which he thought had resulted in the death of 50,000 men. Anghiera, Décadas , I, 145. 62 In conditions of full mobilization it is usually reckoned that one-quarter to one-fifth of the populace...

... the very end of the study. There is no mention of how harvests of different crops (coffee, sugarcane, oranges) may have affected organizing and protest activities. There are no discussions of migrations to and from the urban sector. There are no discussions of family labor arrangements or of issues related...

... were also translated. Mexico’s greatest romantic poet, Manuel Acuña, is barely mentioned; Azuela’s Los de abajo is translated only in part; the soldier’s view of the conquest of Mexico by Bernal Díaz del Castillo is translated in full ; nothing of the greatest poetess of the 17th century, Sor Juana...

... has sometimes used. The Malta and Yalta conference volume contains a very helpful thirteen-page “list of persons mentioned,” with titles and affiliations. If indexing of names of individuals is expensive, I would strongly urge the inclusion of a list of this kind in all future volumes of Foreign...

..., but, generally, uninformative. For example, no mention is made of the prominent wing spurs in the account of the Horned Screamer. No description of the feeding method, or, for that matter, of any aspect of the biology of the West Indian Flamingo can be found in the text pertaining to this form. No mention...

... to Central American banana lands at the turn of the century are touched on only slightly, the subsequent migrations to New York mentioned only in passing, and the Jamaican soldiers’ involvement in the Mediterranean theater during World War I receives no mention. Except for limited use of some newspapers...

..., the military governor of Cuba (whom Langley uncritically admires), gave that reason when he wrote to President Theodore Roosevelt: “There is, of course, little or no independence left Cuba under the Platt Amendment.” But Langley does not mention Wood’s observation. Although Langley devotes about three...

... in a Spanish that Mather learned in three weeks (the author mentions this enterprise in the course of the book some five times) as evidence of “an inter-American mind,” and he buttresses this evidence with the fact that Garrat Noel, of New York, taught Spanish there and printed a Spanish grammar in 1741...

...; and, in 1935, became his first major publication as Las instituciones jurídicas en la conquista de América . In that same year, La encomienda Indiana also appeared. At 26, Zavala had already demonstrated remarkable energy and tenacity, not to mention originality, in research and writing. The conviction...