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...Robert Oppenheimer Notable Family Networks in Latin America . By Balmori Diana , Voss Stuart F. , and Wortman Miles . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1984 . Illustrations. Notes. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 290 . Cloth. $27.00 . Copyright...

... of excellent new scholarship on Spanish and Mexican Texas. The biographical sketches in Notable Men and Women span the entire panorama from earliest contacts to the wars for independence. The figures included were pathfinders, colonizers, administrators, soldiers, missionaries and entrepreneurs...

...Asunción Lavrin Ten Notable Women of Latin America . By Henderson James D. and Henderson Linda Roddy . Chicago , 1978 . Nelson-Hall . Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii , 257 . Paper. $7.95 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

... . xxv , 455 pp. Paper . Notable Latin American Women: Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500–1900 . By Adams Jerome R. . Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland , 1995 . Maps. Bibliography. Index . vi , 191 pp. Cloth . $28.50 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University...

.... Nacimiento, juventud, campañas y cronología de los combates, obras realizadas y muerte sacrificada del notable estadista . By Troncoso Julio . Quito , 1966 . Editorial Santo Domingo . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 351 . Paper. ...

...R.G. Who’s Who in Latin America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Latin America . 7 vols, in 2. Edited by Hilton Ronald . 3d ed. Detroit, Michigan , 1971 (1945) . Blaine Ethridge Books , Pp. 130 , 103 , 149 , 77 , 209 , 258 , 269 . Cloth...

... . Caracas , 1953 . 3 vols. No. 10-11. Bolívar y su época. Cartas y testimonios de extranjeros notables . Compiled by Vila Manuel Perez . Prologue by Lecuna Vicente . Caracas , 1953 . 2 vols. Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Celia L. Cussen Memoria del nombre y salvación eterna: Los notables y las capellanías de misas en Chile, 1557 – 1930 . By Santiago María Eugenia Horvitz V. , Chile : Departamento de Ciencias Históricas, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile , 2006 . 491 pp...

...Robert S. Chamberlain Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias, en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas y animales dellas: y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes y gobierno, y guerras de los Indios . Compuesta...

...Ezequiel Adamovsky Abstract Es una creencia profundamente arraigada en el sentido común que la Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) –el más antiguo de los partidos políticos argentinos– canalizó los intereses de una “clase media” que, según se afirma, experimentó un crecimiento notable a partir de fines del...

...Daniel Mendiola Abstract The purpose of this article is to assess the political, diplomatic, and ethnic dynamics of the Mosquito Kingdom, an Afro-indigenous alliance based along Central America's Caribbean coast, during the eighteenth century. Drawing from new archival sources—most notably those...

... theoretical schemes in favor of “rich” detail and what historians often call “nuance.” Consistent with what historians have come to expect of ethnographers, the nuance or richness here applies nearly exclusively to the local, individual testimonies. Notably missing is a historical and linguistic analysis...

... This regional study demonstrates that Monterrey was one of the few Mexican locales in which a notable network’s hegemony survived the revolution basically intact, and in which its regional autonomy persisted with considerable strength and duration. By the 1940s, this provincial center’s notables too had...

...W. E. Hewitt The book is laid out in five parts. Part 1 is a short history of the Brazilian film industry. In part 2, Brazilian filmmakers themselves, including such notables as Glauber Rocha and Carlos Diegues, contribute narratives analyzing the theory and practice of their art. Part 3...

... has added notably to our knowledge of the Mexico City world of larger-scale trade just before sweeping reform changed its patterns. The basic strength of the Consulado members lay in the trans-Atlantic trade, funneled by the fleet system into the Jalapa fairs. Dr. Moreno makes a complex analysis...

... a few secondary figures such as Toribio Esquivel Obregón and Alfredo Robles Domínguez hailed from the region, and it was also the site of key Villista defeats, Guanajuato was never a notable player during the armed phase of the revolution. Not surprisingly, the region has been overlooked...

...” or “nodal”), while noting that the Iberian empire was not particularly exceptional in this respect (p. 345). He does not, however, expand too much on which other examples he has in mind. Unusual among works of political economy, the book also interacts seriously with the historical work of notable twentieth...

... pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Although certain periods of sociopolitical and economic turbulence — notably the neo-fascist coup of 1976 — have depressed the production of Argentine films, Argentine film-making has always been a vigorous proposition...

... This collection of essays answers a charge: did Father Jon Sobrino’s books Jesucristo liberador: Lectura históricoteológica de Jesú de Nazaret and La fe en Jesucristo: Ensayo desde las víctimas , contain “certain imprecisions,” “errors,” and “notable discrepancies with the faith of the Church” (p. 255)? Latin...

... of the companies and the Cuban state. One such strategy was to leave the sugar zones and become coffee farmers. In the 1920s and 1930s Haitians made notable contributions to the Cuban coffee industry. Casey provides new information and analysis of Haitian religious life in eastern Cuba. He also discusses...