...Rick Warner Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New . By Reff Daniel T. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 290 pp. Cloth...

..., as might seem at first blush. Even the advocates of “big” history acknowledge that the past had to have a place in which to unfold and that all places are relatively bounded units. Though we might live in a global age, world history as a genre is almost as old as (albeit overshadowed by) national...

...Richard Price Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New . Edited by Barnes Sandra T. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1989 . Preface. Introduction. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Contributors. Index . Pp. xi , 274 . Paper . $19.95 . Copyright 1990 by Duke...

... critique calls on us to look again at the old problem of gauchos and rural society in the Río de la Plata. Our article proposed that, during the late colonial period, peons possessed the power to influence the labor market of the Banda Oriental. At the time, the environment was characterized...

... there has required something like a minor Kuhnian paradigm shift in the face of accumulating puzzles or anomalies cast up by the old metanarratives grown creaky with stress. 18 If the regular evangelizers of central Mexico did their work so well, for example, as in the compellingly Whiggish portrayal...

.... In the end, both the Socialists’ commitment to land reform and their anticlericalism served to pit agrarista peasants against counterrevolutionary elites (old-school politicians, most landowners, and the clergy) as well as against broad sectors of Michoacán’s popular classes who interpreted agrarian reform...

..., and Underdevelopment . By Kinsbruner Jay . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 178 pp. Paper . $16.95 . Latin American Revolutions, 1808-1826: Old and New World Origins . By Lynch John . Norman : University...

...E. Fernández De Pinedo Rural Changes and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime . By Herr Richard . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1989 . Plates. Graphs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxx , 879 pp. Cloth . Copyright 1991...

...Matthew Restall Of the Manners of Speaking that the Old Ones Had: The Metaphors of Andrés de Olmos in the Tulal Manuscript . By Maxwell Judith and Hanson Craig A. . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1992 . Photographs. Bibliography . 438 pp. Cloth . $40.00...

... enlightened country in Europe helped maintain intact the most oppressive slave regime in the American tropics. Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime . By McClellan James E. III . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press...

...Cynthia Radding “Secret Judgments of God”: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America . Edited by Cook Noble David and Lovell W. George . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxii , 285 pp...

... and documented. Even though each deals with a different aspect of the confederado experience, they flow well from one topic to another. Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil . Edited by Dawsey Cyrus B. and Dawsey James M...

... nations was one of the first measures to be taken by the government on arriving in Brazil. This was envisioned as a temporary solution, forced upon the government by the circumstances, but, in fact, it put an end to the old colonial system. During the next few years, struck first by the British...

.... Immersed in the wreckage of the past, an old man surveyed the ruins and imagined a future that looked nothing like the world outside his doors. This article analyzes Espinosa's prophecy and explores the methodological challenges of studying historical subjects who are at odds with their earlier selves...

... golaza could also be translated as “law of the old Zapotecs” (see note 25). It is also possible that leo golaza means “so-called old Zapotecs.” In current usage in the Rincón Zapotec of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, leo conveys the attitude of the speaker or author to the idea or concept in question...

...C.C.G. A History of the Old South . By Eaton Clement . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 592 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ...

...Joe B. Frantz The Old Santa Fe Trail . By Vestal Stanley . New York , 1957 . Bantam Books . Illustrations. Appendices . Pp. x , 276 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...Mark W. Lentz mlentz@uvu.edu Death in Old Mexico: The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation . By Nicole von Germeten . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 268 pp. Paper...

... prior to 1808” is not crucial to my argument; in fact, contraband is an ancillary topic in my analysis of the breakdown of the old colonial system. My argument is as follows. Between the 1770s and the early years of the nineteenth century, Portuguese trade with Brazil and Brazil-based foreign trade...

...Chloe Ireton Abstract Hundreds of Castilian free black men and women obtained royal travel licenses to cross the Atlantic in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as black Old Christians. They settled across the Spanish Indies and developed trades as artisans, traders, sailors, healers...