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...Robert S. Platt The Face of South America: An Aerial Traverse . By Rich John L. . ( New York : American Geographical Society , 1942 . Pp. xvii , 301 ; 325 half-tones, 8 maps . $4.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Anne Eller Abstract This essay offers an intellectual history of the armed mobilizations that traversed the highlands and valleys of the Dominican Republic's southern borderlands during the last decades of the nineteenth century, finding at their very heart a spiritually grounded defense...

... in favor of focusing on the myriad entanglements that emerged when colonies took shape across narrow and frequently traversed channels (p. 6). After offering a detailed explanation of his model, Mulich devotes five tightly written chapters to examining how regional connections respectively shaped...

... made available for the first time a detailed account of the last and largest of the expeditions of the Spanish conquistadores in America— that of Francisco Vásquez Coronado. The author’s command of relevant documentary material and his knowledge of the region the expedition traversed give vigor...

... visited during a succession of trips between 1968 and 1976. The narrative combines a strong dose of geography, architecture, and construction techniques with a smattering of history and ethnography. Using colonial Jesuit accounts, Roca traversed the barely accessible Sierra Madre mountains of western...

... and geography of the peninsula and the longest and most detailed of his writings. He undertook to obtain for civil and ecclesiastical authorities information concerning Indians and physical conditions of the region he traversed. In general he fulfilled his task, but to his disappointment, he was unable to reach...

...; from the romantic adventures of Eliza Allen to the serious diplomatic revelations of Henry Lane Wilson. Geographically, Mexico is traversed in its entirety from the U.S. Southwest to Quintana Roo. Scholars of many disciplines and particularly historians of Mexico should find this book useful...

... The Inca imperium extended along 5,500 kilometers of the rugged Andean cordillera to form the largest native American state and the biggest empire of world antiquity ever to arise south of the equator. The political infrastructure included a vast highway network, which John Hyslop traversed for his...

... University Press 1989 In this study, Healy explores terrain already well traversed by specialists. He analyzes the underlying reasons for U.S. Caribbean policy during the period when the United States gained regional dominance, concentrating on Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Panama...

... and gold production; and the scientific voyages of don Alejandro Malaspina, who traversed the Pacific from Chile to Alaska, then to the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and back to Chile (1788-94). All the documents have been previously published, and all but one has also been republished...

...) and contains brief descriptions of the routes followed by each line, together with commentary on technical aspects of construction, occasional data on passenger and freight traffic or rolling stock, and infrequent remarks about the significance of each line to the region it traversed or to the nation...

... 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The field of Renaissance studies has increasingly broadened its scope by examining New World cultural products, including literature, the plastic arts, and historiography. Until recently, rhetorical studies have not traversed the Atlantic in the same way...

... flourished side by side. The author traverses well-worn turf in asserting that the politically conservative Cuban creoles’ demands for annexation to the United States stemmed from their fear that Spain would accede to British demands for abolishing slavery. He charts new ground, however, by providing...

... expeditions in search of La Salle’s lost colony. René-Rohert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is remembered principally for being the first European to traverse the entire course of the Mississippi River, a feat he accomplished in 1682. Two years later, he set sail from France in quest of the mouth...

...Andrew Sluyter For the more general reader, though, this volume is a treasure. Aschmann’s straightforward writing and Pasqualetti’s judicious editing offer a collection essential to any trip to California—Baja or Alta. Traverse southern California from the Colorado River to the Pacific...

... reveals that the planning innovation of the 1930s was to look at the city as a whole, rather than to deal with urban improvements in the traditional way, that is, piecemeal. Recife’s urban configuration posed unusual problems because the city was traversed by rivers, forcing traffic to use narrow bridges...

...—the pioneer explorers of the Antarctic—that the white plains they were traversing at the risk of their lives would be dotted with military and scientific bases just a few decades later. They would have been even more astonished to discover that, before the end of the century, the apparently uncontestable...

... traversing the length of the Mississippi River and his ill-fated attempt at colonizing Matagorda Bay in Texas, relatively little has been written on Spanish reaction to his expedition and its survivors. In this latest book Robert Weddle has carefully covered Spanish land and sea expeditions to Texas...

... disarmament, and establishment of the Río Coco cooperatives; and Sandino’s assassination and the annihilation of his movement by Somoza’s Guardia Nacional. Much of this is familiar ground, to be sure. But the author also traverses some new territory, developing some important and compelling arguments...

... of Spaniards caught between their desire for African laborers and the territory’s ability to conceal runaways. The Castilla de Oro’s unique economic geography, with the key ports of Nombre de Dios and Panamá situated on opposite sides of the isthmus’s unsettled and difficult-to-traverse interior, facilitated...