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...Jonathan Madison [email protected] Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship . By Bryan Pitts . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii , 246 pp. Paper...

...Heidi Tinsman The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty and Chile's Cold War . By Sebastián Hurtado-Torres . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix, 253 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke...

...John A. Crow. After the Storm: Landmarks of the Modern Mexican Novel . By Sommers Joseph . Albuquerque , 1968 . University of New Mexico Press . Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 208 . $5.95 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 This study...

...Gregory T. Cushman El Niño in History: Storming through the Ages . By Caviedes César N. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2001 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 279 pp. Cloth , $24.95 . Copyright 2002 by Duke University...

...Megan Raby Sea of Storms should be read widely by scholars of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is ideal for graduate seminars, providing opportunity for methodological discussions of scope and scale, interdisciplinary sources, and historical causation. Its graceful prose should also make...

... across the state from the Indian attacks upon Coronado to the last Apache raid in 1927, and from the first Spanish probe northward for gold and souls to the settlement of the Chamizal dispute. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Chihuahua: Storehouse of Storms . By Lister...

... delineated in Elizabeth A. H. John’s Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds . Drawing on earlier researches and an array of published sources, the author focuses on Spanish-Indian diplomacy in New Mexico and Texas during the eighteenth century, emphasizing the manner in which Comanche alliances helped maintain...

...Colton Storm The First Century of the John Carter Brown Library. A History with a Guide to the Collections . By Wroth Lawrence C. . ( Providence : The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library , 1946 . Pp. 88 . Facsimiles. $5.00 .) Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 ...

...Matthew Vitz Abstract Lake Texcoco, located on the eastern edge of Mexico City, had dried significantly during the nineteenth century, a process furthered by the Great Drainage Canal, completed in 1900. Although city boosters praised the canal for having eliminated Texcoco’s floods, dust storms...

... United States Investors in Puerto Rican Sugar,” in Silvestrini, Politics, Society, and Culture , 111–30. 95 Report on Civil Affairs , n. 3904, p. 514. 4 A tropical storm that battered San Juan a month later reportedly caused more physical damage than the hurricane and rendered the harbor...

...). Individual calamities often appear as dramatic scenes in larger studies of cities, colonies, and nations, but few scholars have considered hurricanes as important agents of change in themselves or explored the impact and meaning of the storms in any detail. Pérez addresses this oversight and in doing so...

.... Cloth , $45.00 . Duke University Press 2007 In 2004 and 2005, the Gulf region experienced unprecedented hurricane frequencies, casualties, and material losses. Some hurricane researchers suggest that this reflects a normal period of increasing storm frequency, while others feel...

... proceeded to Ilha de São Sebastião and on to Santos, raiding the harbor town, and leaving ships destroyed in the roadway of the Bahia de Todos os Santos. Despite delay he was not very well provisioned, and on heading south he ran into the first of the storms of which he wrote “. . . in deede I thincke...

... that the author calls Texas and the “Near Southwest” but which imperious Texans may well have referred to as “Greater Texas.” The author self-consciously positions his text as an extension of Elizabeth A. H. John’s Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1975), minus New Mexico...

... Coast and the deserts of northern Mexico were difficult to cross. When the Spaniards took to the Gulf of Mexico to escape the rigors and hazards of land travel, they had to endure the broiling sun by day, bone-chilling cold at night, terrible thirst, and howling storms. Many Indians were hostile...

... in the tropics exercises far greater influence over these storms, for example. It is also untrue to claim that the new, vastly improved chronologies of El Niño and La Niña by Joëlle Gergis and Anthony Fowler in any way “confirmed” (p. 4) this book’s interpretation of the connection between climate and revolution...

... of Communism. During the 1960s, the United States destabilized governments in British Guiana (Guyana), Brazil, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala because it did not judge the constitutional leaders of those countries to be sufficiently anti-Communist. Aragorn Storm Miller of the University...

...W. H. Callcott Copyright 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 Prologue to Mexico. A Story of a Search for a Place . By Storm Miriam . ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1931 . Pp. xii , 328 , ii . Illustrated . $3.50 .) ...

...Alan K. Manchester Technical Assistance in Public Administration. The Domestic Role. II: A Report on the Brazilian Program . By Storm William Bruce and Markey Beatrice G. . Los Angeles , 1959 . Pp. 68 . Paper . $1.90 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

... of the region, is treated from the point of view of the native inhabitant, so that the reader learns his reactions to storms, the change of seasons, and other natural phenomena. It is not, therefore, a very useful description of the valley. The second, entitled ‘‘Animates y Vegetales” starts with a list...