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... prepare Jesuit missionaries for their future work among the natives of America. The second, by Paulina Numhauser, continues Pallas’s story as one of many Italian Jesuits that through their teaching at schools (for which they became famous) and other means sowed the seeds of an anticolonial project...

...Christopher Schmidt-Nowara A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence . Edited and translated by Sanders Mark A. . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . lxix , 240 pp. Paper . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press...

...Lori Boornazian Diel Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World . By Rabasa José . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 264 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright...

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... narrative take hold. This reflects the fact that he “joined” the Shining Path so young, a monolingual Quechua speaker who, although quick to learn, was a child. He neither takes nor dodges responsibility but rather tells his story, allowing others to judge, condemn, and, perhaps, learn. As a campesino...

... Early Florida Adventure Story: The Fray Andrés de San Miguel Account. By fray andrés de san miguel. Translated by john h. hann. Foreword by james j. miller. Florida Heritage Publication. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Map. Translator's Notes. Index. xiv, 109 pp. Cloth, $55.00...

...Paul Dosal Bitter Fruit: The Story of an American Coup in Guatemala. By stephen schlesinger and stephen kinzer. Introduction by john coatsworth. Foreword by richard a. nuccio. The David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies. Cambridge, Mass:Harvard University Press, 1999...

...Don M. Coerver The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge . By eileen welsome. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 403 pp. Paper, $21.95. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press...

...Deborah Cohen Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. By daniel james. Boulder: Westview Press, 2001. Photographs. Notes. Index. xv, 316 pp. Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $18.95. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews General Histories and...

...Andrew G. Wood The Mafia in Havana: A Caribbean Mob Story. By enrique cirules. Translated by douglas e. laprade. New York: Ocean Press, 2004. Plates. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. viii, 177 pp. Paper,$17.95. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Book Reviews General Histories and...

...Ariel de la Fuente 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.3_05 Fuente(503-536) 8/4/00 3:27 PM Page 503 Facundo and Chacho in Songs and Stories: Oral Culture and the Representations of Caudillos in the Nineteenth-Century...

...Charles F. Walker The Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories: Architecture and the Aftermath of the Lima Earthquake of 1746 Charles F. Walker On October 28, 1746, at 10:30 p.m., a massive earthquake struck Lima, the capital of the viceroyalty of Peru, and swamped the nearby...

...Donald Ramos Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society. By sandra lauderdale graham. New York: Cambridge University Press,2002. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 183 pp. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $18.00. 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...Alvis Dunn Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala . By DANIEL WILKINSON. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 375 pp. Paper, $19.95. © 2007 by Duke University Press...

...Ricardo D. Salvatore The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Stories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870 . By jeffrey m. shumway. Engendering Latin America, vol. 4. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 202 pp...

...Mary Miller Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. By elizabeth hill boone. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 296 pp. Cloth,$38.00. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.1-07 Books v2 3/23/01 6...

... answers. ann s. blum, University of Massachusetts, Boston doi 10.1215/00182168-­2010-­096 True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico. Edited by robert buffington and pablo piccato. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Illustrations. Notes. Index. xi , 276 pp. Paper, $27.95. This...