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... salesiana,” and begins with valuable first-hand descriptions of the Patagonian Indians in the late nineteenth century. Based on primary sources, this essay analyzes Salesian missions in Patagonia from 1879 to 1913. The warm Roca-Salesian relationship turns to ice in the third essay, by Cayetano Bruno...

... but by Germans. Both the increase of migration to Patagonia and the Chilean-Argentinian controversy over some tracts of border lands seem to have prompted the publication of this study about the history and geography of the southern half of the Patagonian ice cap and its surrounding areas. The author...

... which the author, General Julio Alberto Lagos, made in the Patagonian region. He rightly feels that this region should be better known, especially by Argentines. Lagos’ approach to his subject is systematic, for he exposes the reader to its history and geography, and then suggests the need to exploit...

... departs from these routine matters to give interesting details about the places visited. An entertaining feature of the appendix is an article, “The Patagonian Giants,” by Dr. Helen Wallis of the British Museum Map Room. Dr. Wallis, after reviewing reports by travellers from Magellan’s Pigafetta...

... of these scholars have focused on environmental and animal studies, two fields that underlie but do not figure prominently in Harambour's analysis. Rather, he deconstructs the rise of a transregional oligarchy rooted in the wool industry as the operative political and economic force in the Patagonian frontier...

... be marginally acknowledged, their ideas and experiences often go unsolicited. How did the experiences of these prisoners, confined to the Beagle Channel for years while Furlong made his intermittent transatlantic voyages, inflect, transform, or even preclude the visions of this mythic Patagonian landscape...

... the menace of indigenous tribes and the threat of Chilean territorial encroachment. Particularly emphasized are those policies of the Roca and succeeding Conservative administrations fostering the exploitation of Patagonian natural resources. ...

... for the incident. In discussing the kinship of the Charrúa to the Patagonians, Cordero accepts Paul Rivet’s theory as to their Australian origin, although he recognizes the difficulty of establishing a feasible route for the long transpacific migration. The second half of this work begins with a sketchy...

... and constructive way. The well-edited documents have been carefully chosen from reliable printed sources. Here are such familiar items as Peter Martyr’s description of the fate of Solís and his companions, Pigafetta’s account of Magellan’s voyage along the Patagonian coast and through the Straits, Landsknecht...

... history who are unfamiliar with the author. An evangelical pastor and vice-president of the Argentine Biblical Society, Arnoldo Canclini in this volume writes of Episcopalian proselytism among the Patagonian Indians between 1830 and 1916. British missions were quite isolated in the nascent settlements...

..., however, and lead a triumphant march up the Río Negro valley into Chile, where he was turned back by the Chileans. In 1874 he made one last assault on his “occupied” kingdom, but this time he never got beyond the Patagonian coast. Undaunted, he returned to Paris, where he maintained an embassy until his...

... bank: the banking crisis of 1876; the claims of Buenos Aires in 1878 that its financial backing of the desert campaigns, as well as early treaties, gave it jurisdiction over newly conquered Pampean and Patagonian territory; and the porteño armed rebellion of 1880 which was financed by its local bank...

... interactions between indigenes and Hispanics in the Pampa and Patagonian frontiers. Helen Osório discusses war and commerce between Brazilians and Spanish Americans in the Banda Oriental. In common with the cases of Ortelli and Ratto, she shows that in time of war cattle and horses become key economic...

... are discussed by Irving Rouse. Finally Betty Meggers and Clifford Evans propose four “horizon styles” for the South American Tropical Forest, and two articles deal with Argentine topics: the Aguada culture by Alberto Rex González, and a genetic interpretation of the designs of Patagonian robes by Carl Schuster...

... visual tropes and connects them to emerging ethnographic theories. French depictions of indigenous populations in Brazil, the association of the Guaraní with cannibalism, and the myth of Patagonian gigantism are only a few of her major examples. Davies draws on an impressive range of maps—more than 2,000...

... knowledge the crew used to obtain food and navigate. Of course, Fernández-Armesto refers to the famous Patagonian giants, which are part of the voyage's mythologization and Europeans' subsequent desire to go to the area. He shows how this imaginary of the Patagones has historical roots in antiquity...

... and more stable colonial society. In 1778 the Bourbon crown, driven by fears of foreign encroachment and Enlightenment principles of utility, began the process of sending 1,900 people from Spain to settle the Patagonian coast. This colonization plan is the subject of Allyson M. Poska's Gendered Crossings...

... are transported from an 1877 puma hunt with Enrique Ibar Sierra to the author's trek across the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and both have deepened your historical perspective. In contextualizing the naive, boisterous, bullying, and compassionate acts of these men, Schell raises critical and necessary...

... lost much of its glamor in failing to sweep the sea clear of Chilean warships. As La Nación commented on April 27, there was “not a vessel belonging to it fit for the sea.” 39 On April 23 the Argentine government formally adopted the position that the Patagonian question ought to be suspended...

... not learn definitely either the name of the first man who found gold in the vicinity of the strait, or the exact locality in which it was found.” 7 About a decade later some stranded sailors accidentally came upon gold at Cape Vírgenes, a promontory located on the southeastern tip of the Patagonian...