...R.G. Mato Grosso, Last Virgin Land: An Account of the Mato Grosso Based on the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society Expedition to Central Brazil, 1967-9 . By Smith Anthony . Foreword by Blackett Lord and Laithwaite Sir Gilbert . New York , 1971 . E. P. Dutton...

...Lyman L. Johnson To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society . By Pérez Louis A. Jr. H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index . xiv , 463 pp. Cloth , $39.95...

... for collective redemption entailed the gradual sacrifice of civil society. In addition to exploring how civil society began to disappear, this essay asks and attempts to answer the vexing historical question of why the vast majority of Cubans did not seem to care. 5 This question remains particularly relevant...

... has been racked by sharper overlapping geographic, ethnic, and class cleavages than other parts of Latin America, and that “no inspiring, unifying national project loomed on the horizon” (p. 31). Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 State and Society in Conflict: Comparative...

...Lise Sedrez Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society . By Hochstetler Kathryn and Keck Margaret E. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 . Paper...

...Víctor Gayol The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750–1962 . By Smith Benjamin T. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2012 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...José Ragas Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America . Edited by Medina Eden , Marques Ivan da Costa , and Holmes Christina . Foreword by Cueto Marcos . Inside Technology . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2014 . Photographs. Figures...

...Dwight B. Heath Integration of Man and Society in Latin America . Edited by Shapiro Samuel . Notre Dame , 1967 . University of Notre Dame Press . Index . Pp. xiii , 356 . Paper. $3.25 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 This is a collection of papers...

...Alfredo Roggiano The Modern Culture of Latin America: Society and the Artist . By Franco Jean . New York , 1967 . Frederick A. Praeger . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Indices . Pp. 339 . $7.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 This is the first serious...

...Dauril Alden Portuguese Society in the Tropics. The Municipal Councils of Goa, Macao, Bahia, and Luanda, 1510-1800 . By Boxer C. R. . Madison , 1965 . University of Wisconsin Press . Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 240 . $6.00 . Copyright 1967...

...Kenneth Coleman Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century . By Goveia Elsa V. . New Haven , 1965 . Yale University Press . Caribbean Series 8 . Map. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 370 . $8.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press...

...R. E. Q. The Evolution of Urban Society. Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico . By McC. Adams Robert . Chicago , 1966 . Aldine Publishing Company . The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures . Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 191 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968...

...) for the recruiters of various causes. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Peasant Society. A Reader . Edited by Potter Jack M. . Boston , 1967 . Little, Brown and Company . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. ix , 452 . Paper. ...

...George K. Zucker Catálogo de los manuscritos poéticos castellanos (siglos XV, XVI y XVII) de The Hispanic Society of America . 3 vols. By Rodríguez-Moñino Antonio and Mariño María Brey . New York , 1965-1966 . The Hispanic Society of America . Illustrations. Notes. Indices...

...Howard F. Cline Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda . By Chevalier François . Translated by Eustis Alvin . Edited, with a Foreword, by Simpson Lesley Byrd . Berkeley , 1963 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Glossary...

...Robert S. Smith Sugar and Society in the Caribbean, an Economic History of Cuban Agriculture . By Guerra y Sánchez Ramiro . Foreword by Mintz Sidney W. . New Haven , 1964 . Yale University Press . Caribbean Series, 7 . Notes. Index . Pp. xliv , 218 . $5.00 . Copyright...

... of predictions. Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Military and Society in Latin America . By Johnson John J. . Stanford , 1964 . Stanford University Press . Notes, Bibliography. Index . Pp. 308 . $7.00 . This reviewer thinks Johnson’s conclusions reasonable; indeed, I...

..., but these are minor defects greatly overshadowed by the merits of the book. Lockhart has ingeniously pulled together a large mass of data to develop a totally new picture of Peruvian society in its formative stages. He has also given new insights into the nature of Spanish colonization in the New World and provided...

...Charles Gibson Printed Books, 1468-1700, in the Hispanic Society of America: A Listing . By Penney Clara Louisa . New York , 1965 . Hispanic Society of America . Illustrations . Pp. xlii , 614 . $8.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 An up-to-date listing...

... and menial jobs and to reside in the same neighborhoods as before their emancipation. A combination of discrimination and unfavorable economic conditions prevented freedmen from rising in society. The artisans feared Negro competition and jealously excluded them from the few skilled positions which...