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...Phillip Hadley Research in Mexican History: Topics, Methodology, Sources, and a Practical Guide to Field Research . Compiled and Edited by Greenleaf Richabd E. and Meyer Michael C. . Lincoln , 1973 . University of Nebraska Press . Maps. Table. Chart. Appendices . Pp. xiii...

... three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been central in Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the present; this piece offers a long-term...

...Josef Opatrný Essays on Cuban History: Historiography and Research . By Pérez Louis A. Jr. Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1995 . Notes. Index , xiv , 304 pp. Cloth. $44.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Since the publication of his book...

...Donald Cooper This is a useful and competent work that provides a concise introduction to the historical origins of science in Brazil. It is thoroughly researched in both primary and secondary sources, and it is accurate (although the Italian microbiologist Sanarelli appears as “Saranelli” on pp...

...Barry Carr Mexico State Papers, 1744-1843: A Descriptive Catalogue of the G. R. G. Conway Collection in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London . By Costeloe Michael P. . London , 1976 . The Athlone Press . Index . Pp. 153 . Cloth. $9.50 . Copyright 1977...

...Rayford W. Logan Papers of the Conference on Research and Resources of Haiti . Edited by Schaedel Richard P. . Austin , 1969 . Institute of Latin American Studies for the Research Institute for the Study of Man . Notes . Pp. 624 . Paper. Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press...

...Mark Szuchman Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research . Edited by Portes Alejandro and Browning Harley L. . Austin , 1977 . Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Texas Press . Bibliography . Pp. xi , 179 . Cloth. $9.95 . Paper. $3.95...

...Martin H. Sable Urbanization specialists and Latin Americanist social scientists in many disciplines should find these well-documented articles in Latin American Urban Research of value. Urbanization problems have since the late 1960s become prime research topics, especially appropriate...

...John P. Harrison Latin America in Transition. Problems in Training and Research . Edited by Ross Stanley R. . Albany, New York , 1970 . State University of New York Press . Pp. xxxi , 150 . Cloth. $7.50 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 “This volume contains...

...Thomas O. Ott Working Papers in Haitian Society and Culture . Edited by Mintz Sidney W. . New Haven , 1975 . Antilles Research Program, Yale University . Graphs. Diagrams. Tables. Map. Appendices. Notes . Pp. 290 . Paper. The Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti...

...Seymour Liebman Latin American Jewry: A Research Guide . By Sable Martin H. . Cincinnati , 1978 . Hebrew Union College Press . Indexes . Pp. xv , 633 . Cloth. $35.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The author describes himself as “a Latinamericanist...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Survey of Research on Latin America by United States Scientists and Institutions . By Lesser Alexander . [ National Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council .] ( Washington, D. C. : Committee on Latin American...

... Services: Their Future Significance . By Robert John Mathew for the Commission on Implications of Armed Services Educational Programs . ( Washington : American Council on Education , 1947 . Pp. xix , 211 . $2.50 .) Area Studies: With Special Reference to Their Implications for Research...

...); and J. de Graaf, The Economics of Coffee (Wageningen, 1986). On recent Brazilian coffee research, see issues of Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira , published by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. 50 Marcus, Agricultural Science , provides an excellent analysis of the origins of the Hatch...

...Steven Palmer Abstract The paper reassesses the model of scientific success on the periphery advanced in Nancy Leys Stepan’s analysis of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Beginnings of Brazilian Science by looking at a comparable, though ultimately less successful, bacteriological research facility...

... For one of the best studies of a collaborator elite, see Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells, “International Harvester and the Henequen Marketing System in Yucatán, 1898–1915,” Latin American Research Review 17, no.1 (1982). Their article was based on the insights of John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson...

...Herbert Ingram Priestley Copyright 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 Mexico and Texas, 1821-1835. University of Texas Research Lectures on the Causes of the Texas Revolution . By Barker Eugene C. . ( Dallas : P. L. Turner Co. , 1928 . Pp. 167 .) The Life of Stephen F...