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...Joseph L. Arbena Passion of the People? Football in South America . By Mason Tony . New York : Verso , 1995 . Photograph. Illustration. Tables. Notes. Index . x, 174 pp. Paper . $17.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Soccer—football in most of the world...

..., and territorial experiences and show how such marvels acquired uniquely Mexican meanings. When the Franciscan Order arrived in New Spain just three years after the fall of Tenochtitlán to Hernán Cortés, its members brought their devotion to the Passion, believing that miracles of the cross represented...

...Jessica Lauren Nelson The last 80 pages of the book offer a composite translation (into English) of the six Passion manuscripts. Burkhart compiled the elements of the various scripts into a single comprehensive version in this appendix, offering a clear glimpse of Nahua understandings...

...Erika Pani Antón Pérez: Manuel Sánchez Mármol's Novel of Race, War, and Passion . Translated and edited by Terry Rugeley . Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series . Amherst, NY : Cambria Press , 2019 . Notes. Glossary . xxxi, 233 pp. Cloth, $109.99 . Copyright ©...

... condición femenina en el México colonial . It was long past time for new insights, and this is a book that is clearly informed by the theoretical and activist approaches that have blossomed since the 1990s. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex...

...Jeanette Favrot Peterson Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa . By Trexler Richard C. . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 280 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2006 by Duke University...

...Pilar Latasa Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima . By Mannarelli María Emma . Translated by Evans Sidney and Dodge Meredith D. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2007 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 204...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics . Edited by Kampwirth Karen . Foreword by Weyland Kurt . University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2010 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 254 pp. Cloth , $65.00...

...J. Fred Rippy Copyright 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 Símon Bolívar, South American Liberator . By Angell Hildegarde . ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1930 . Pp. x , 296 . $3.00 .) Bolivar, the Passionate Warrior . By Ybarra T. R. . ( New York . Ives Washburn...

...Joseph R. Farrell Critical Passions: Selected Essays . By Franco Jean . Edited, with an introduction, by Pratt Mary Louise and Newman Kathleen . Post-Contemporary Interventions . Durham : Duke University Press , 1999 . Notes. Index . vi , 536 pp. Cloth , $69.95...

... with the resurgence of Conservatives after 1880. Through it all, Dueñas-Vargas demonstrates that the history of emotions, as captured in letters and diaries, is a valid historical tool. Of Love and Other Passions is a pleasure to read. It is full of up-close and personal stories that are skillfully employed...

...Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Abstract The anthropologist Oscar Lewis first used the term “culture of poverty” in a 1959 article on Mexico. Within months, the idea that the poor had a distinct culture became part of a passionate, decade-long, worldwide debate about poverty. Scholars, policy makers...

...] as a powerful symbol” of courtship but also shaped new forms of mass writing such as the novel, the newspaper, and the love letter manual, contributing in this way to the construction of a robust “passionate public sphere” (pp. 4, 11). Drawing on an array of documents that include transcripts of legal...

... Signo, 2000). The book’s narrow focus is perplexing, however. Law is perceived as the give-and-take of the courtroom, legal opinions of a number of intellectuals, and the passions of immigrants. These, however, showcase the views of those who adhere most dogmatically to positivist principles. Yet...

... government as long as the church was given the power and space to ensure that politics were subordinated to its principles of morals and religion. His defense of Catholic Church doctrine was thus framed as the only guarantee that Mexicans had against tyranny and decline. He was a passionate defender...

... the course of national intellectual and political life. But Tito was more than a representative member of his unusual generation: with his combination of crisp analytical clarity, literary and even poetic flair, passionate human commitment, and astounding temporal and spatial range, he transcended...

... Paz turns in this volume to the towering literary figure of colonial Latin America, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695). He deals with the subject in depth and with passion. An opening section sketches the political, social, religious, and cultural setting in background chapters largely based...

...Henry C. Schmidt Regards sur le Mexique . By Piault Bernard . Paris , 1976 . Editions S.O.S . Map. Notes . Pp. 191 . Paper. Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Piault is a well-known religious writer, who, in this book, combines his passion for God with his...

...Gemma R. Del Duca, S. C. As a poet, Nicolás Guillén is a great experience, even in translation. Perhaps his great contribution is his ability to express poetically, passionately, realistically the history of Cuba, the experience of a people, and the simple story of a Juan Nadie (John Nobody...

... of an aggrieved Mexican, he terms this the most passionate case in the diplomatic history of Mexico. His treatment of the Chamizal conflict is the most perceptive of the three, although incomplete as the period since 1911 is neglected. A more thorough study of United States—Mexican diplomacy in this era would...