...Dana G. Munro Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby. Reminiscences of California and Guatemala, 1849–1864 . Edited by Barker Charles Albro . [ Huntington Library Publications .] ( Los Angeles : Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press...

...Joe B. Frantz With Beauregard in Mexico. The Mexican War Reminiscences of P. G. T. Beauregard . Edited by Williams T. Harry . Baton Rouge , 1956 . Louisiana State University Press . Illustrations. Appendix. Index . Pp. ix , 116 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

... they continue to furnish much questionable data to unsuspecting researchers. Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is a more reliable source for those trying to learn how a handful of barbudos were able to seize absolute control of Cuba. Nevertheless, there is much of value...

... disaffected revolutionary. Together the memoirs construct a remarkable portrait of four ordinary men—ordinary in the sense that these are not the people usually the subject of fifteen-dollar university press books. The reminiscences of Benedí, Barrera, Salazar, and Capote offer a rare and, indeed, until...

.... A number of specific studies are well done and insightful (viz., Fernando Fajnzylber on science and technology, Ignacio Almada Bay on health). Rolando Cordera Campos’s outline of alternatives for the future sharply frames the politics of the “respectable left opposition,” though it is slightly reminiscent...

... grains for domestic consumption. Some continuities from previous times persisted, though. Studying inventories of the largest landowners in Buenos Aires around 1850, Juan Carlos Garavaglia finds a common investment pattern reminiscent of that of colonial times. It included not only estancias but also...

... of which reflect the author’s reminiscences of a long visit to Spain. However, one of the essays, on the August 10, 1809, movement in Quito, is of some interest; and almost a third of the volume is dedicated to a biographical sketch of General Francisco Javier Salazar, one of the outstanding figures...

...Charles Gibson Maya Archaeologist is a volume of reminiscences by one of the foremost of twentieth-century archaeologists in the Maya area. Thompson evokes the world of a generation ago, describing the difficult conditions under which digs were accomplished and contrasting them with the more...

... views of Ixta and Popo. Thus, while his short essay records the programs and struggles of the newly established cultural institutes, perhaps more interestingly, it affords Trueblood the opportunity to provide the reader with such random reminiscences of embassy life and personal recuerdos . ...

... is uncritically revived in terms reminiscent of a sixteenth-century Dutch edition of Las Casas’ Brief Relation . Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Journey into Darkness . Upton Terrell L. John . New York , 1962 . William Morrow and Company . Maps. Epilogue. Bibliography . Pp...

...D. G. The book is a stylistic horror—an outline with vague citations filling in the gaps. The topic sentences have been transformed into the overabundant boldface subtitles; important details are italicized. The conclusions are equally incredible, reminiscent of a third-rate Hollywood movie...

... to Isla de Mujeres and Cozumel. In a manner reminiscent of Richard Halliburton, Peissel has written an account of the human and natural obstacles which he encountered in his journey. Highlighting the text are his frequent discoveries of Maya ruins, many previously unknown. Only one site (Muyil...

... published in 1922 and 1953. The only new material in the present edition is a brief prologue by Dr. Leonidas Aguirre MacKay that contains some biographical data about the author, and a reverential and warmly personal reminiscence about Dr. Orrego Luco by his granddaughter. Recuerdos de la escuela...

... recollections of his childhood in the 1920s and 1930s, Claribalte Passos’ tales probe the psychological make-up of the people he loved and admired and even some whom he feared. Only rarely do his reminiscences lapse into exaggerated sentimentalism. Passos conveys the inner fears, aspirations and pleasures...

... with Central American history, this conclusion is obviously inadequate. In general the book tends to be verbose and repetitious. Many of the observations are reminiscent of Gilberto Freyre. There is the usual Latin American lack of an index. On the other hand, the author gives an extensive bibliography...

... volume is a musician’s reminiscences of those decades, and of the European vogue of Argentina’s contribution to world popular culture, the tango. The central figure in this casual memoir is Manuel Pizarro, who first visited Paris in 1914, taught the young Italian Rudolph Valentino to dance the tango...

..., and often important, light on the role of such groups as Los Doce and the United Peoples Movement (MPU). While obviously biased in favor of the Sandinistas and often quite selective in their reminiscences, these accounts provide a major primary source for the history of the Nicaraguan revolution...

... 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 This carefully reproduced journal supersedes George Gleig’s 1837 edition of Hussar Landsheit’s reminiscences as the best soldier’s description in print to date of the British military occupation of Haiti. Roger Buckley’s claim that it tells “much about...