... interlocutors. He makes the case for Las Casas as the founder of modern political thought vis-à-vis Machiavelli; he finds in Bolívar's writings an affinity with Machiavelli's martial republicanism rather than a parallel to Montesquieu, as is usually maintained. He reads the Venezuelan Vallenilla in relation...

...María Inés Tato Iván Márquez has gathered in this book a wide range of excerpts from diverse Latin American contributions to social and political thought. He offers to the English-speaking audience of teachers and students a valuable sourcebook of key works by Latin American intellectuals...

...Emília Viotti da Costa Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought . By Skidmore Thomas E. . New York , 1974 . Oxford University Press . Tables. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 299 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Before...

...Carl A. Hanson Reason of State and Statecraft in Spanish Political Thought, 1595-1640 . By Fernández-Santamaría J. A. . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1983 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii , 353 . Cloth . $25.00 . Paper . $14.00 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

...Charles A. Hale Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in Its Ideological Aspects, 1492-1900 . By Lewis Gordon K. . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1983 . Notes. Index . Pp. x , 375 . Cloth. $25.00 . Copyright 1984...

...Jeane Delaney Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought . Edited by Gracia Jorge J. E. . Latino Perspectives . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2011 . Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xix, 349 pp. Paper , $30.00...

... lately turned attention in his direction once again, as Brazilians seek to understand the authoritarian era from which they are now emerging. This preliminary study is offered as part of that reexamination of Viana’s thought. 5 It will attempt, first, a biographical analysis, to recover Viana’s...

...William Madsen Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Burning Water. Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico . By Séjourné Laurette . New York , n.d. Vanguard Press . Notes. Index . Pp. xiii , 192 . $6.00 . ...

...Charles G. Griffin Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 A Century of Latin-American Thought . By Crawford William Rex . ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1944 . Pp. 320 . $3.50 .) ...

... ever discovered anything of value either in morals or ethics. He felt that Unamuno’s influence was about dead in 1955. Unamuno, through his obvious talents, his sincerity, his stimulating thought, his high achievements, and his supervigorous personality, lured or browbeat a great many of his...

...J. H. Elliott New Worlds for Old: Reports from the New World and their Effect on the Development of Social Thought in Europe, 1500-1800 . By Brandon William . Athens, OH : Ohio University Press , 1986 . Notes. Index . Pp. 226 . Cloth . $26.95 . Paper . $13.95 . Copyright...

... to International Legal Thought . By David M. Lantigua Cambridge Studies in Law and Christianity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 356 pp. Cloth, $110.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 El estudio de...

...Amy A. Oliver Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought . By Schutte Ofelia . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . 313 pp. Cloth, $54.50 . Paper, $17.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

...Joseph E. Pluta Latin American Political Thought: A Developmental Perspective . By Williams Edward J. . Tucson , 1974 . University of Arizona Press . Comparative Government Studies, 6 . Bibliography . Pp. 69 . Paper . $1.50 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

...Irwin Gellman Latin America and the Transformation of U.S. Strategic Thought, 1936-1940 . By Haglund David G. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1984 . Notes . Pp. vii , 240 . Cloth . $19.95 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Events in Latin...

...Luis E. Aguilar The replacing of careful and balanced research by personal insights (“Castro and his comrades proved Marx, Engels and Lenin wrong.” p. 239) results in several mistakes. Liss’s claim that “Marxist thought did not arrive in the Americas until more than two and a half centuries...

... that national greatness was linked to military preparedness, which in turn depended upon the country’s economic development. Military weakness was an invitation, they thought, to live under the “humiliating tutelage of the strong.” 1 At the crossroads where their fears and dreams met, they saw a small...

...Miguel León-Portilla The Aztec Image in Western Thought . By Keen Benjamin . New Brunswick, New Jersey , 1971 . Rutgers University Press . Maps. Illustrations . Pp. xviii , 667 . Cloth. $20.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Aztec civilization has been...

...Charles A. Hale Latin American Thought: A Historical Introduction . By Davis Harold Eugene . Baton Rouge, Louisiana , 1972 . Louisiana State University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 269 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 For several...

...Joseph F. O’Callaghan The State, War and Peace: Spanish Political Thought in the Renaissance, 1516-1559 . By Fernández-Santamadia J. A. . New York , 1977 . Cambridge University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 316 . Cloth. $24.50 . Copyright 1980 by Duke...