... in examining ideas in Latin America in relation to their concrete reality. The history of ideas should be used as a useful conceptual instrument of analysis of certain Latin American issues. Indeed, there has been much published and said of my work. I would classify the observations under two categories...

.... . . C. I want to compare myself to . . . Diodorus and . . . Dionisius . . . [who] the one for twenty-two years and the other for thirty, saw and studied what they wrote—but I [have done so] for only a short while less, as I said, than sixty-three years (to God be given immense thanks that he has...

... me that listening to interviews is as subjective as reading historical documents, frequently more so. What each of us heard, or said we heard, was tempered by our politics, experience, and expectations, by the ubiquitous presence of the Cuban state, and sometimes by what we hoped that narrators would...

... bishop of Honduras, gives some information about the Achfes or Aches, who formed a large part of the force of Indian allies Pedro de Alvarado brought with him from Guate­ mala. Comparatively little is known about these fierce people, who are said to have been cannibalistic and whom the Indians...

... hand, trying to persuade the British government that they formed a bulwark against Yankee imperialism, compared the people of the U.S. to “barbarians.” After the War of 1812, he said, both Canadiens and British Americans changed their attitudes toward their southern neighbors, whose prosperity...

... separation of church and state, agrarian reform (discussed by Edward Malefakis below), and large-scale irrigation works. “In such matters as land reclamation, electrification, school-building university and foreign scholarship development,” Jackson said, “The Republic was expanding, in an intelligent...

... Press 1962 “The Marqués will see you now,” said the uniformed household servant as he led us down the long hall whose walls, covered with paintings, pergaminos and escudos gave us some preview of the nobility of the master who awaited us in the somber elegance of his library. The map expert...

... of Austria, the poor king’s mother; Marie Louise, Carlos’ first wife, said to be a French spy for Louis XIV; and the second wife, María Ana of Neuburg. Through the book there runs a thread of witchcraft, superstition, poison, and the Devil. So fascinated is the author with his material that he spends...

... brutality. Early in 1831 a ship was said to have landed about 180 slaves near Rio de Janeiro, having sailed from Africa with less than three gallons of water per slave for a crossing in the Torrid Zone requiring perhaps a month at sea. 8 On December 2, 1831, the H. M. S. Druid detained a vessel off...

... to Olney, declaring that there was no longer an autonomy party willing to accept reforms or self-government from the Spanish. Nearly all Cubans, he said, wanted independence or annexation to the United States. Lee waxed eloquent at the prospect of the island’s becoming an American possession...

... said, development of more critical methods of investigation and an awareness of the interpretive dangers of ethnocentrism caused such writings to fall into disrepute, if not altogether into disuse. In recent times there has been a revival of interest in the subject. Cultural anthropologists have...

... 300, and medios 200. On June 15, 1706, just four years after a cédula forbade religious or seculars to ship merchandise on the galleons, the priests wrote a letter to the king complaining of their poverty. 6 With such salaries, they said, one could not maintain the dignity which the canon’s...

.... And there are a number of developments like that. RG: What do you see as the connection between the work of the historian and the evolution of his or her country? SBH: As Croce said, all history is contemporary history. The historian always writes from within his own time. The historian is within history...

... of colonialism and cultural development. A final group of essays stays more at the level of dominant elite discourse, whether in Europe (Edward Said and Anthony Pagden) or in the colonial and postcolonial world (Jorge Klor de Alva and Homi Bhabha). To borrow a term from Said, these authors read official...

... to take part in elections. Such a view, wrote García, defamed the native, whose labor supported society and whose bravery had won and rewon Mexican independence. The Indians were illiterate, he said, because they had no schools. To survive in the modern world, Mexico had to educate its people. Indians...

... and signed note which said simply “To the wrath of my enemies I leave the legacy of my death. I carry with me the sorrow of not having been able to do for the humble all that I desired.” There is no doubt concerning its authenticity. The news of his death shook Brazil and filled the people...

... government could rightfully protest and would undoubtedly do so.” The AFL had not yet decided upon what course it would now follow, Green said, but the Executive Council intended to arrive at some conclusions and to formulate a policy within the next few months. 9 Green had attended Calles’ inauguration...

..., whence they had fled because of the defeat of King Roderick. It is said that the boatswain of the vessel brought back a little sand and that he sold it to a goldsmith of Lisbon, and that from this a goodly quantity of gold was got. They say that knowing of this, the Infante Dom Pedro, who still ruled...

... Institution. So profound were his contributions that Alfred Marston Tozzer gave him major credit in Iris Landa volume, and J. Eric Thompson said Scholes was “among the giants in this century in Maya Studies.” At the apex of his career as a research professor France Scholes focused his interests on the life...

... Roosevelt, written in September, 1901, in which he said: “the only consistent thing to do now is to seek annexation.” Gen. Wood had a very curious idea as to his job in Cuba; he told Oswald Garrison Villard: “I have done the President’s dirty work in Cuba for him and I want my reward.” Two really...