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... “twenty-six years after Lucenilla tried his fortune in 1628.” A few lines further down the same paragraph Niel changes the date of the enterprise by twenty years, making it take place from 1674 to 1676: “recently, that is twenty three years” after the Atondo entry, and “twenty one years after the return...

... research, my attempt to provide a first balanced and serious analysis of urban guerrilla warfare has been so carelessly reviewed. Her “review” fails to evaluate the contents of my book. Indeed, the first two paragraphs provide a background on the Tupamaros and on recent events in Uruguay; the third...

.... Nowhere is the reader informed that the book is, for the most part, a simple condensation of the useful two-volume Breve historia de la Revolución by the same author. Nowhere is it acknowledged that entire paragraphs—indeed entire pages—have been lifted en masse from the Breve historia . Nowhere...

... their goods more competitive” (p. 132). This important paragraph ends with the conclusion that under those conditions workers had no sense of themselves as a “working class” and were drawn to either paternalism, or “an individualistic anarchism, as effective as police spies in dividing and weakening worker...

... and first appeared in 1951 in the Revista chilena de historia natural . For the most part this edition follows the first, paragraph for paragraph and sentence for sentence, but a couple of paragraphs have been added on Maldonado, the Cochiguas Valley, Guanaqueros, and Huentelauquen. Also, there are a few...

... for diplomatic and commercial supremacy on the isthmus is scarcely commensurate with the importance of this rivalry for Central America. The index lists several references to Justo Rufino Barrios, president of Guatemala from 1873 to 1885, but a cheek of these reveals only one brief paragraph on his highly...

... Charles Wilson Ph.D. , professor of Latin-American history in the University of Texas. Volume III (Part II, Paragraphs 1528–1712, inclusive, and Part III, Paragraphs 1-1046, inclusive) . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 1941 . Pp. xxii , 623 . $6.50 .) ...

... G erabd F lynn University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Thank you for your kindness. I believe this paragraph explains the basic difference between Professor Leonard’s criticism and my own. He argues that for sound criticism one must be enamored of his subject (“Ah, yo estoy enamorado de...

... items in too limited a space. Also one may question the author’s placing of emphasis. For example, an entire chapter is devoted to the maguey plant, while the history, effect, and contributions of positivism in Mexico are compressed into two paragraphs. The chapter on astronomy in Mexico is twice...

... scholarly. Was John Cabot really on Catalina Island, California, in 1526 (p. 107)? Was a substantial trade really “ carried on by the far-traveling Aztec merchants with the Incas of Peru (p. 750)? The style of writing tends to be too breathless, even by journalistic standards. One sentence paragraphs...

..., pages 70-71 contain a 90-line paragraph, and Kadir surpassed himself on pages 97-100, which contain a 111-line paragraph. Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe’s Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology . By Kadir Djelal . Berkeley...

... History , the author has thus added a new dimension to the historiography of the Conquest. Sáenz leads the reader through an analysis, manuscript by manuscript, paragraph by paragraph, and even word by word, searching carefully in the whimsical spelling, the indifferent punctuation, and the confused...

... percent. We are not informed of this, nor do there seem to be consistent criteria for cutting, except that it takes place paragraph by paragraph at an increasing rate as the book progresses. The final part is shortened by about one third. Some times only detail is omitted, but at other times we lose...

... Hemisphere: Comparative Studies”). Most of the chapters are further subdivided, some into as many as nine categories. The greatest utility of Dutra’s work lies in the detailed and lengthy annotations that he provides for the 939 entries; they are cross-indexed, several paragraphs or one long paragraph...

...Henry Dobyns Iglesias wrote a longer paragraph about “San Andrés Sayultepeque” which produced brown sugar, and where “every house” made two bottles of maize liquor daily, “which is why the majority abuses liquor.” In 1952 the Mexican Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística published Sayula...

... prove ominously prophetic about this book’s overall quality. Although the title promises a history of Hispanics, the preface’s first paragraph reneges, admitting that “[o]ur book, however, is not a history of the Spanish-speaking peoples” (p. xi). Moreover, that same paragraph asserts that “[o]urs...

... contains only a modicum of new archival documentation, particularly Spanish; and, lastly, because it consists of chapters composed either of almost complete quotations (IV and V) or of quotations interlaced by transitional paragraphs (I, II, and III). That the volume was published is a tribute...

... of selected segments of the Navigatio , which a local Latin teacher translated for him—a task, incidentally, that had been done before. The first chapter begins with five one-sentence paragraphs, whose brevity, simplicity, and iconoclasm set the stage for a thesis that is supposed to stagger the reader...

... records and account books for inventories and the financial structure of the estancia. In all, he provides 65 figures, 54 tables, and 3 statistical appendixes. Even so, Amaral’s manipulation of statistics often confounds the reader with paragraph after paragraph of complicated inference. He admits...

... but the complication is simple, consisting always of paired themes and contrasts.” Three paragraphs later: “The cloister of Tomar is much more complicated than any Italian design of the same century. The rhythms are never simple or uniform” (pp. 20-21). The chapter ends: “The delight of the eye is further enhanced...