...Neil Safier Mapping Nature across the Americas . Edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. xii, 416 pp. Cloth, $70.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press...

... Catholicism,” consists of a brief contextual chapter on Mexico City society and four substantive chapters, each of which deals with a particular manifestation of the baroque: the belief in sacred immanence, that is, that the sacred inheres in physical objects (chap. 2); the performative nature of baroque...

...Ruth Hill Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution . By Barrera-Osorio Antonio . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2006 . Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 211 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright 2008...

...Gregory T. Cushman States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940 . By McCook Stuart . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2002 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 201 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper...

...Thomas D. Rogers In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region . By Garfield Seth . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 343 pp...

...Nikolas Kozloff Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba . By Díaz-Briquets Sergio and Pérez-López Jorge . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2000 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 328 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper...

...Joan Martínez-Alier Nature and Culture in the Andes . By Gade Daniel W. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1999 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 287 pp. Cloth , $45.50 . Paper , $18.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Picturing Tropical Nature . By Stepan Nancy Leys . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index . 283 pp. Cloth , $36.50 . Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The “tropics” have haunted...

...Nicole von Germeten Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain . By Zeb Tortorici . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 327 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

...Matthew Vitz Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests . By Mathews Andrew S. . Politics, Science, and the Environment . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 312 pp. Paper...

..., and the writings of prisoners exiled to Ushuaia, recuperating more situated visions within this mythic landscape. Some authorities considered Ushuaia a natural prison where engineers could design a modern penitentiary and implement rehabilitation techniques through labor and isolation. I explore the tension...

... taken requested that the state restore their fields and assure that they be left in peace, the cacique acting like “an irrational beast.” 64 Both Spaniard and natural suffered at the hands of this cacique, who abused his power and ran roughshod over those around him, forcing his victims to turn...

... : Forest History Society , 1992 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies , viii , 303 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Paper , $14.95 . Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition . Edited by Place Susan E. . Wilmington : Jaguar Books , 1993 . Notes...

...Josef Opatrný The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature . By Pike Fredrick P. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1992 . Plates. Notes. Index, xix , 442 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University...

...Stanley L. Engerman Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas: Comparative Notes on Their Nature and Nexus . By Hoetink H. . New York , 1973 . Harper & Row. Bibliography . Index . Pp. viii , 232 . Cloth . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975...

...J. L. Fischer On the other hand, as the title suggests, Redfield’s primary interest lay in generalizing about the nature of humanity and society, and his interest in history stemmed from a desire to collect further cases to test his generalizations. His original empirical research involved...

... Beals’ book is an entertaining commentary on a dozen “revolutions” from 1776 to the present, which casually raises questions about their “origin” and, presumably, inquires aggregately into the “nature” of revolution. The purpose of the title must be more organizational than conceptual, since...

..., las tradicionales prácticas en alimentación, vestidos, bebida, conducta sexual, etc. The Pre-Columbian Mind: A Study into the Aberrant Nature of Sexual Drives, Drugs Affecting Behavior, and the Attitude Towards Life and Death, with a Survey of Psychotherapy, in Pre-Columbian America...

... Europeans to learn of the lands across the Atlantic were scarcely in a position to appreciate their true nature. The ordinary practical pilot and navigator probably had few ideas of any kind, except such pieces of misinformation he may have picked up from planispheres whose makers strove futilely...

...Margaret E. W. Jones Machado: A Dialogue with Time. Nature as an Expression of Temporality in the Poetry of Antonio Machado . By Hutman Norma Louise . Albuquerque , 1969 . University of New Mexico Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 207 . $7.95 . Copyright 1970...