...John Rydjord A Prince in Their Midst, The Adventurous Life of Achille Murat on the American Frontier . By Hanna A. J. . ( Norman Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1946 . Pp. 275 . Illustrations. $3.00 .) Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 ...

...Charles E. Nowell The Perfect Prince. A Biography of the King Dorn João II . By Sanceau Elaine . Pôrto , 1959 . Livraria Civilização . Illustrations. Note. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 446 . Paper . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...Donald E. Worcester Prince-Errant and Evocator of Horizons. A Reading of R. B. Cunninghame Graham . By Haymaker Richard E. . Charleston , 1967 . Privately Printed . Illustration. Notes. Index . Pp. 374 . $7.50 . ( Distributed by the author .) Copyright 1968 by Duke University...

...William A. Trembley Collecta, pour l’histoire du diocese du Cap-Haitien . Two volumes . By Jan Jean Marie . Port-au-Prince , 1955 . Editions Henri Deschamps . Pp. 288 ; xiii , 367 . Port-au-Prince: Documents pour l’histoire religieuse . By Jan Jean Marie . Port-au...

...Donald S. Castro Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour . By Silva Eduardo . Translated by Ashford Moyra . New York : Verso , 1993 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , ix , 219 pp. Cloth. $34.95 . Copyright 1996...

...William H. Ellison John Bidwell, Prince of California Pioneers . By Hunt Rockwell D. . ( Caldwell, Idaho : The Caxton Printers, Ltd. , 1942 . Pp. 463 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...

...Bradley Dixon A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America . By James Horn . New York : Basic Books , 2021 . Illustration. Maps. Figures. Notes. Index . xxii, 295 pp. Cloth, $30.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022...

... will have to explain to me how these two books, both on Mesoamerican topics, should have been published in the same year by the same press, for one is virtually useless to both scholars and laymen, and the other invaluable. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The Zapotecs: Princes...

...George Foster Princes of the Earth: Subcultural Diversity in a Mexican Municipality . By Margolies Barbara Luise . Foreword by Maybury-Lewis David . Washington, D.C. , 1975 . American Anthropological Association . Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography...

... to appreciate this quality in great men. He may have felt sublime in writing of the prince, but some soulless Americans might be tempted to use “bellyaching” as more descriptive of his mood. Also, if he wished to put the dry-as-dust scholars in their place, he should not have allowed them the openings he does...

... Afonso V and the Catholic kings were at war. Essays on the Infante Dom Henrique (“Prince Henry the Navigator: The Rise and Fall of a Culture Hero” and “Prince Henry and the Nesessary End”) enthrall the reader with a closely argued discussion of motivation and a compelling analysis of how central...

... the discoveries commonly associated with Henry the Navigator, are used for the readers’ convenience, because the famous prince is considerably reduced in stature by Magalhães Godinho. He is somewhat deprived of his scholarly intellectual rating and loses rank as a crusader. Instead he becomes largely...

... unrelieved catastrophe, and he is often dismissed as a visionary fool. Before he came to the New World, however, he was known as an able, imaginative, and resolute prince, indeed as the natural superior of his brother, Francis Joseph. From their earliest childhood the emperor and Maximilian regarded...

... The innumerable titles of Godoy comprise almost half a page in the introduction to the text of the Treaty of San Lorenzo. “With this intention His Catholic Majesty has appointed the most excellent Lord Don Manuel de Godoy and Álvarez de Faria, Ríos, Sánchez Zarzosa, Prince de la Paz, Duke de la Alcudia, Lord...

... or the Empress Guard numbered slightly more than 1700 men. See: Blumberg, p. 218. 14 Prince Oscar succeeded King Charles XV in 1872 and reigned as Oscar II, 1872-1907. 15 Marshal François Bazaine, 1811-1888. 16 Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvio...

...Richard Pattee Souvenirs d’Epopée . By Délienne Castera . ( Port-au-Prince : Haiti, Imprimerie de l’Etat , 1935 . Pp. 102 .) La Politique Extérieure de Toussaint Louverture . By Lecorps Marceau . ( Port-au-Prince : Chéraquit, Imprimeur-Editeur , 1935 . Pp. 107...

..., second and third “races” of French rulers. 8 The young Prince of Joinville, son of King Louis Philippe, was thinking of the word in that sense when, as captain of a corvette off Veracruz in 1838, he yearned to be in the thick of the fighting that he might “uphold the honor of his race.” 9 The word...

..., the attitudes and opinions of participants have a valid claim to attention. This essay will describe the last years of the American protectorate over Haiti, as seen from the vantage point of the United States legation in Port au Prince. 1 After 1920 the United States tried to reduce its interference...

... Press 1965 Boland offers a long array of individuals and races who “discovered” America before Columbus. Every piece of evidence, real or fantastic, is grist for his mill. Paleolithic men, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Chinese, Ireland’s Saint Brendan, the various Norsemen, Quetzalcoatl, Prince...