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...Nicolás Duffau [email protected] The Pen, the Sword, and the Law: Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay . By David S. Parker . McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2022 . Photographs. Figures. Tables...

... The Broken Sword. The Story of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas . By Newcomb Covelle . New York , 1955 . Dodd, Mead & Company . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 334 . $3.50 Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

... The Cross and the Sword . By Galvan Manuel de Jesus . Translated by Graves Robert . Foreword by Urena Max Henriquez . Bloomington, Indiana , 1954 . Indiana University Press . Pp. xviii, 364 . $3.75 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

... Church, his findings could just as well have been about some other major denomination in American life. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The Robe and the Sword. The Methodist Church and the Rise of American Imperialism . By Mackenzie Kenneth M. . Washington , 1961...

...William R. Roberts With Shield and Sword: American Military Affairs, Colonial Times to the Present . By Hassler Warren W. Jr . Ames : Iowa State University Press , 1982 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 462 . Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University...

...Miles L. Wortman Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics . By Greenberg James B. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1981 . Map. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 227 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982...

...Charles C. Griffin The Sword Was Their Passport. A History of American Filibustering the Mexican Revolution . By Warren Harris Gaylord . ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1943 . Pp. viii , 286 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...

...Herbert Ingram Priestley Copyright 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 Sails and Swords; being the Golden Adventures of Balboa and his intrepid Company, Freebooters all, Discoverers of the Pacific . By Strawn Arthur . ( New York : Brentano’s , 1928 . Pp. 341 . $3.50 .) ...

...Robert H. Lister Conquistadors Without Swords. Archaeologists in the Americas. An Account with Original Narratives . By Deuel Leo . New York , 1967 . St. Martin’s Press . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 647 . $12.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke...

... out these men’s activities, examine the archives they made, and raise questions about their connections to quipu literacy. Andean notaries are presented as a kind of double-edged sword — as crucial intermediaries vis-à-vis the Spanish colonial bureaucracy who might work both for and against...

..., in France, and the kingdoms of Loango and Dahomey, in West Central and Northwest Africa, respectively, through a silver sword and its movements between these three interconnected spaces throughout the eighteenth century and also the men and women of these spaces who had their lives intertwined and shaped...

... University Press 1997 Ever since Leopoldo Lugones, the famous Argentine poet, essayist, and right-wing nationalist, declared in 1924 “The Hour of the Sword,” the military of his country has heeded his message that officers were better than politicians. Deborah Norden has updated this long and tortuous...

... labor to work their land, apparently seeing no possibility that a slave insurrection like the one they had fled from could take place in the clay fields of Alabama. The Bonapartists, however, were men of the sword. To them, the Alabama land had a value primarily in funding their efforts to participate...

...-erse son posteriores: The Squatter and the Don de María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1885); Caballero de Jovita González, escrita entre 1930 y 1940 (1996); Not by the Sword de Nash Candelaria (1982) y Boy Heroes of Chapultepec de María Christina Mena Chambers (1953). Sin embargo, el contenido es...

..., pictorial and verbal, of the military tools of the Spaniards in America for the years 1700-1821. Thus there is a brief historical overview of the time span involved, followed by chapters on firearms, accoutrements, swords, and cannon, as well as one inclusive chapter covering lesser weapons such as polearms...

...Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Asesinato de Carranza . By Urquizo Francisco L. México , 1959 . Populibros “La Prensa.” Pp. 234 . Paper . $.50 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Many Mexican leaders have perished by treason and the sword, but none died as tragically...

... the major themes of cultural nationalism differently. The liberal school emphasizes the “spirit of May” and adheres to the basic core of the liberal tradition. The anti-liberal school emphasizes the cult of the sword or the cult of Juan Manuel de Rosas and adheres to the anti-liberal tradition...

..., Library of Congress. 18 Powell, Soldiers, Indians, and Silver , p. 106. 19 Stafford Poole, C.M., “‘War by Fire and Sword’. The Church and the Chichemecas, 1585,” The Americas , XXII:2 (October, 1965), 137. See also the other related studies by Dr. Poole: “The Church and the Repartimientos...

... fuzziness. The canine contribution, however, is repeatedly exaggerated: for example, one dog killing 100 natives in one hour (p. 8) and one dog worth 300 soldiers in battle (p. 156). Lacking the balance that would include horses, firearms, swords, lances, and more, the authors offer an over-kill...

... topic of population through his countless lectures, debates, and discussions all over Latin America, crossing swords as often with conservatives as with radicals. He has, I think, earned the respect and admiration of all who know him. Unfortunately, this book does not add to Dr. Viel’s long...