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...Edward Larocque Tinker El Gaucho. (El Cazador de Ganado. El Jinete. Un Ideal de Novela.) By Nichols Madaline Wallis . Translated by Morales de Aparicio Christina Correa . Prologue by de Aparicio Francisco . Buenos Aires , 1953 . Ediciones Peuser . Illustrations...

...Edward Larocque Tinker * The author, who has been closely connected with Latin American affairs for many years, was decorated by the Argentine Government for his work in the field of the horsemen of the Americas and the literature they inspired. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press...

...Michael Derham Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy” . Edited by Ellner Steve and Salas Miguel Tinker . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2007 . Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xvi , 220 pp. Cloth , $69.00 . Paper , $24.95...

...Madaline W. Nichols In an interesting illustration of the general American colonial turning from any mere imitation of European literary models to the utilization of local materials in the creation of national literatures, Edward Larocque Tinker traces the development of the gaucho theme...

...Irving A. Leonard Corridos & Calaveras . Edited by Tinker Edward Larocque . Austin , 1961 . University of Texas Press . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 60 . $5.00 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 In the appendix Américo Paredes has performed...

... political experiments involving two centralist constitutions and two ephemeral dictatorships that convoked constitutional congresses, each of which created unsuccessful and very short-lived systems of government. In spite of this tinkering on a grand scale, the fundamental problem remained the fiscal...

...Donald E. Worcester The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired . By Tinker Edward Larocque . ( New York : Hastings House , 1953 . Pp. 149 . Illustrations, bibliography . $15.00 .) Copyright 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ...

... , is made possible by a grant from the Tinker Foundation of New York City. The editors anticipate being able in the near future to expand the program to include other European languages and in the meantime invite submissions in those languages. Historically the Review has published book reviews...

...C. J. Bishko The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired . 2nd ed. By Tinker Edward Larocque . Austin , 1967 . University of Texas Press for the Humanities Research Center . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 150 . $10.00 . Copyright...

... Bazant, and Josefina Vasquez deserve high marks for the quality of the volume. The Tinker Foundation is to be commended for its sponsorship of this pilot project. ...

..., or both, for how else could one explain the failure to recognize what is manifestly obvious. Ripoll responds brusquely to those who tinker with the true text. In fact, he is downright unkind; and charges of insincerity and incompetence are hurled against all those who seek to make Martí something other...

... as imperial tinkering with a private-enterprise system of production and ended with centrally administered state factories and dramatically increased state revenues. Selective regional studies complement the imperial focus. They demonstrate how the state regulated prices at the expense of cane producers...

... the feverish diplomacy and cultural efforts made in the early 1890s—have had little exposure in American academic publications. Howard J. Wiarda’s The Iberian-Latin American Connection: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy , financed by the Tinker Foundation through the American Enterprise Institute, puts...

... become by the 1980s that a need was felt in U.S. foreign policy circles to conduct a major review of the Soviet-Latin American relationship. This took place in 1986-88 under the auspices of Princeton University’s Center for International Studies with financial support from the Tinker Foundation...

... cattle of the New World provided livelihood for a greater number of individuals than any of the mining operations that Spain undertook in her more than three-century occupancy of the greater part of the Western Hemisphere. In one respect, Rouse’s work is reminiscent of Edward Laroque Tinker’s...

... extraction and alchemical fire. Artisanal tinkering, in turn, could improve nature. Such a voluntarist understanding of God's power and human knowledge of nature led to a voluntarist understanding of religious conversion and to Franciscan global chiliastic religious missions of spiritual conquest...

...Brian McBeth The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela . By Salas Miguel Tinker . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 324 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Cloth , $84.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... to ground her exploration of “the power and poetics” of performance, publics, voice, imposition, suppression, resistance, appropriation, and transformation embedded in the Caribbean's political economies of sound (p. 6). The “tinkerers,” technicians, miners, engineers, factory workers, and amateur radio...

... in the constitutions of Latin America. Of course, institutions are important and one needs to get them right, but no one nowadays thinks that such constitutional tinkering will solve Latin America’s problems or even that a formal-legal approach is the best way to deal with the issues involved. As the editors...

... a flexible crown to tinker with Spain’s mercantile system. Mazzeo outlines the impact of neutral trade, endemic contraband, and rising British commercial hegemony on the commerce of the Pacific coast of South America and the merchants of the Lima consulado. The nine essays contained in this volume...