...A. J. Bauer Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Professor Rolando Mellafe’s death on October 30, 1995, ended not only the career of an extraordinary Latin Americanist but also the life of a kind and gentle husband, father, colleague, and man. Very few people in the wide circle...

...Rolando E. Bonachea Franqui’s contribution is a substantial one to the historiography of the revolution. His method of presentation makes the process come alive through the voice of the participants. The leaders emerge as romantics, idealists, opportunists—trying to influence the movement...

...Rolando Mellafe Los Archivos de la Historia de América. Período colonial español I . By Cañedo Lino Gómez . México D.F. , Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia , 1961 . xvi , 654 p. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Tanto en la Advertencia...

... of Rolando Mellafe. His early work treated the conquest, but this was followed by two books on black slavery in the Americas and then a series of provocative and often original articles not just on Chile, but Peru and Mexico as well. Several of these are reprinted here and constitute a kind of combats pour...

...Phillip Althoff Che: Selected Works of Ernesto Guevara . Edited and with an introduction by Bonachea Rolando E. and Valdés Nelson P. . Cambridge , 1969 . The MIT Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 456 . $12.50 . Death of a Revolutionary. Che Guevara’s Last...

..., urban violence, and political corruption. 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...

... de San Martín they were Peruvian born, interested in the well-being of their nation and their compatriots. The liberal elite of Lima created a self-description that legitimated their national leadership while delegitimizing the role of other elite groups. This book by Rolando Rojas analyzes how...

...William Glade The Latifundio and the City in Latin American History . By Mellafe Rolando . Foreword by Ellis Keith and Levy Kurt L. . Toronto , 1971 . University of Toronto . The Latin American in Residence Lectures, II . Pp. 30 . Paper. The Rural Society of Latin...

...Charles C. Griffin Barros Arana, americanista . By Mellafe Rolando . Santiago , 1958 . Ediciones de los Anales de la Universidad de Chile . Pp. 64 . Paper . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...Donald E. Worcester Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Diego de Almagro . I . Descubrimiento del Perú . By Mellafe Rolando . II . Descubrimiento de Chile . By Villalobos Sergio . Santiago , 1954 . Universidad de Chile . Instituto Pedagógico . Maps...

... Cabrera Infante, Rolando Rigali, Jesús Díaz Rodríguez, Domingo Alfonso, Luis Agüero, and Reynaldo González. My favorite in the collection is Jesús Díaz Rodríguez’ short story “The Cripple,” set in the period of the struggle against Batista. While the writings represented in this anthology...

... problems and are well worth reading, through in no way interconnected. Particularly impressive are the studies by F. H. Cardoso, Florestan Fernandes, Rolando Franco, Hanns-Albert Steger, Alain Touraine, and Marshall Wolfe. These and the other contributors are all frequently consulted and read “intellectual...

..., while pointing to its contemporary crisis. The contributors include historians, the architects, and art historians. Among the authors are well-known figures such as Francisco de Solano, Pedro A. Vives, Jorge E. Hardoy, George Kubier, Rolando Mellafe, Paulo O. de Azevedo, María Luisa Cerrillos...

... as a means of restoring the economy. Maximilian, on the other hand, was obstructive and slow to grasp the potentialities of such colonization. This study, like others in recent times, serves to rehabilitate the French emperor. Finally, Rolando Andrade relates with sensitivity the estrangement of Porfirio...

..., but also for his thorough analysis of their sources, reliability, and significance. For example, Mamalakis evaluates all Chilean national censuses, often with the consultation of expert demographers like Rolando Mellafe and Robert McCaa. Some terms, such as “urban” in the chapter on urbanization, could...

... turns into an elaboration of differences between the two neighbors and their scholarly offspring. Perhaps the most illustrative arguments are found in the first two contributions, by Clark Reynolds of Stanford University and Carlos Tello and Rolando Cordera, both national politicians and academic...

... paid by one convent in Santiago for commodities, expanded into a remarkable examination of the Chilean economy from perhaps 1550 to 1808 and the most comprehensive price study to date for any part of colonial Latin America. A lengthy prologue by Rolando Mellafe summarizes the evolution of price studies...

... errs occasionally, as when he applauds uncritically the removal of La Quina, the boss of the petroleum workers, by the Salinas crowd. La Quina may have been corrupt, but he was no patsy of the oligarchy, and the petroleum workers enjoyed benefits shared by no other labor sector in Mexico. That Rolando...

... published in 1931 by Dr. Carlos A. Rolando, whose Biblioteca de autores nacionales was long the best collection of Ecuatoriana. 50 The Guayaquil Centro had its antecedents in the works of historians like. Francisco Campos (b. 1841) and Camilo Destruge. Even though colonial history attracted most...

...A. J. Bauer Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Alvaro Jara died from complications following a heart attack, on April 20, 1998, in Santiago, Chile. Among an outstanding generation of Chilean historians that included Mario Góngora, Jaime Eyzaguirre, and Rolando Mellafe, Alvaro...