Search Results for tropic

...Joseph L. Arbena The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic . By Ruck Rob . Westport : Meckler Publishing , 1991 . Maps. Photographs. Index . xx , 205 pp. Cloth . $37.50 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The increasing success of Latin...

... of ecosystem change in the tropics ties together articles ranging from general overviews to highly technical papers on, for example, the long-term effects of sheep grazing in semiarid regions or the role of microfossils in historical analysis. Some engaging essays appear, such as Warren Dean’s strong plea...

...Jeffrey Lesser I hope that the certain success of Tropical Multiculturalism will convince Robert Stam to write a second volume exploring filmic representations of race outside the traditional black/white/indigenous continuum, an area that demands attention now that the Brazilian national...

...Judith Laikin Elkin Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba . By Levine Robert M. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1993 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography . xvii, 398 pp. Cloth . $34.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

...Julyan G. Peard Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 H istorians of Latin America have only recently begun to revise the longstanding image of nineteenth-century Latin American physicians who faithfully (and passively) reproduced European medicine in their mainly tropical...

...Eugene Ridings A Tropical Belle Époque: The Elite Culture of Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro . By Needell Jeffrey D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1987 . Maps. Photographs. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 351 . Cloth . $45.00...

... Bundesversuchsanstalt Wien , Hans-Erich Oberländer, ed. (Vienna, 1970), 31-32. At this juncture in Dafert’s development as a tropical agricultural specialist, he suddenly fell ill and was obliged to depart for Europe. His continued illness resulted in his release and the promotion of Uchôa Cavalcanti. The station...

...John L. Rector A New Deal for the Tropics: Puerto Rico during the Depression Era, 1932–1935 . By Rodríguez Manuel R. . Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers , 2010 . Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography . viii , 161 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Cloth , $68.95...

...Othín Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico . By Faust Betty Bernice . Foreword by Meggers Betty J. . Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...Micol Seigel Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism . Edited by Warwick Anderson , Ricardo Roque , and Ricardo Ventura Santos . New York : Berghahn Books , 2019 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. viii...

...David Lowenthal Where Winter Never Comes: a Study of Man and Nature in the Tropics . By Bates Marston . ( New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1952 . Pp. 310 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...Preston E. James Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics . By Wagley Charles . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1953 . Pp. xi , 305 . End paper map, illustrations, bibliography, index . $5.00 .) Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...John P. Harbison The Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. A Negroid Area of the American Tropics . By West Robert C. . Baton Rouge , 1957 . Louisiana State University Press . Social Science Series, No. 8 . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xiv , 278 . Copyright...

... Transgressor in the Tropics . By Farson Negley . ( New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co. , 1938 . Pp. 305 . Map. $2.50 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...Elena McGrath Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present . By Ben Nobbs-Thiessen . Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Elizabeth S. Manley Abstract Launched in 1966, Jamaica's national airline, Air Jamaica, exclusively employed women flight attendants, dubbed “rare tropical birds,” to embody and sell its elevated hospitality. Using Air Jamaica and its flight attendants as a lens on tourism across the region...

... the underdeveloped economies in the tropics and hotter subtropics, in which the technical material and charts are invaluable. The other is his insistence on awareness not only of economic and technical challenges, but also “those springing from the background and way of life of the local peoples.” He stresses...

... book deserves to stay in print a long time; maybe someday it will be read by students together with Flandrau’s Viva México . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Tropical Frontier . By Record Paul . New York , 1969 . Alfred A. Knopf . Borzoi Books . Glossary . Pp. xv...

...Kirk Bowman Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas . By Cocks Catherine . Nature and Culture in America . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. 255 pp. Cloth , $59.95 . Copyright © 2015...