...Paul Christopher Johnson The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil . By Luis Nicolau Parés . Translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author. Latin America in Translation / en Traducción / em Tradução . Chapel Hill : University of North...

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... concerned with narrative description than analysis, the book takes for granted the economic determinism and conclusions of Eric Williams and the predominance of questions of technology, profit, loss, and the building of planter family fortunes found in the work of Richard Pares. It makes few departures from...

... at University College London. He was soon regarded as a scholar of high promise and, using the concept of American history in its widest sense, began to introduce Latin America into his teaching. In 1939 he was invited to join the Foreign Office in research capacity. There he met Elisabeth Pares...

...Max Savelle War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763 . By Pares Richard . ( Oxford : 1936 . Pp. 631 . $8.50 .) Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...

...Max Savelle Colonial Blockade and Neutral Rights, 1739-1763 . By Pares Richard . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1938 . Pp. viii . 232 . $7.00 .) Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 ...

... in the activity of the Havana squadron. The duty was all too often routine. Yet its presence helped to maintain the balance of power among the colonial powers, and went far to preserve Spain’s position in the Caribbean. 1 Richard Pares, War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763 (Oxford, 1936); Cesáreo...

.... James and Jay R. Mandle). In this context, Volume II examines specific cases in South America (selections by Celso Furtado, John V. Lombardi, and Octavio Ianni), the Caribbean (selections by Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Pares, and Franklin W. Knight) and the United States South (selections by Douglass C...

... of the Iberian Christian-Islamic frontier. Christian captives in Granada and North Africa came to be seen as “Christ’s poor,” the fitting object of the Mercedarians’ redemptive work. Through a thorough and careful examination of the archival documentation Brodman pares away much of the legend surrounding...

... Friedrich, Romana Falcón, and Luisa Pare will not find much that is new in this book, which draws heavily on the findings of already published regional and local case studies. They will, however, encounter a provocative interpretation of the global drift of agrarian mobilization and state policy during...

... the microfilm copies of the archive's contents, reproduced on 85 rolls of film by the Mexican Academy of Genealogy in the late 1950s. Four microfiches contain two volumes of the substantive portions of each document, rearranged in chronological order and pared down to eliminate “tedious and often redundant...

...-authored by Jorge Gutiérrez, Luisa Pare, Pilar Calvo, Eckart Boege and Víctor Raúl Martínez Vázquez. The strength of each of these studies is that they contain valuable information about the formal and informal structures of local political and economic power in Mexico. The weakness of these studies...

... refuses to be detached from the tragic lot of the individuals she studies. With artistic economy and warm humanity, Vlach pares down the sad, painful stories of her subjects to capture, in a handful of words, what their disrupted lives existentially represent: conflict, adventure, and death; success...

... Pares in 1935: “Historians must never give up the struggle to make sense of history, but they must also guard against making too much sense. They must allow most of all for vagueness and uncertainty in the history of colonization and exploration, where most of all had to be left to ignorance and chance...

... show African influence on spiritual syntheses in the Americas. Elizabeth Kiddy demonstrates how Africans adapted to European religious forms by participating in Christian lay brotherhoods. Luis Nicolau Parés probes the influence of the African roots of Candomblé in the influence of the hierarchy...

... archaeology of the political by tracing some of the implications of the transformation of European monarchies, from feudal to corporatist forms. Specifically, the author shows how the figure of the king develops as it becomes something other than that of primus inter pares among aristocrats. Tracing...

... resemble that of the king’s” (p. 479) fresh in my mind, I hesitate to concur unreservedly with Alden’s assertion that in his relations with the governors the viceroy was simply primus inter pares (p. 447). Alden further asserts that Pombal never strengthened the viceregal powers. It is difficult...