...Hannah Tweet [email protected] Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida . Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Rochelle A. Marrinan . Florida Museum of Natural History : Ripley P. Bullen Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press , 2021 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliographies...

...Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate Abstract This article focuses on the political role of the Secretariats of Women and Youth, which were created by Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, in an effort to unearth their underlying rationale. It departs from previous interpretations of these organizations...

... and economic liberty. This book concerns itself with those who wrote in support of such ideas. Castagnino has attempted to collect the liberal writings that have suffered obscurity due to vehicle of publication, literary quality, or reputation of author. He has unearthed essays, poems, editorials...

... exchanged key scientific methods and practices. Bentancor's aim is not to unearth indigenous knowledge production in the mechanical arts but rather to chart an intellectual history of contradicting justifications for imperial violence and wealth. In this, Bentancor expertly charts a critical genealogy...

... has unearthed nothing new but he has given us a remarkable synthesis, well organized and well written. There is a good glossary of Quechua words and many good illustrations. It is a useful monograph. ...

... their families, remained in Brazil. Their contribution to the development of architecture and the building crafts was lasting. Guilherme Auler’s study is of especial interest, because he has unearthed from the Public Archives of Pernambuco and other depositories the original documents that evidence...

... proves earlier contentions that government officials engineered the plot, but he presents no further evidence to substantiate the old charge. While the story is fascinating and well dramatized, the authorjournalist has not been successful in unearthing important new materials. ...

..., politics, and medicine. Initially interested in the career of Dr. Pedro de la Torre only as a case study exemplifying the regulation of the medical profession, the author eventually unearthed, through painstaking research, three major documents on his life. Rarely does an historian have the luck to put...

... is unearthed. Two matters have caught my attention. There is the tremendous number of revolts— tumultos y motines . These were not against the royal authority but against local officials and problems. The spirit of disorder which was passed on to all later centuries was already deeply entrenched during...

... of this, remains of the Sandia man and the Folsom man have been unearthed. Doctor Beck has organized his material well, starting with geographical considerations and proceeding to the peoples. He briefly sketches the historical highlights of a more than four-century span and comes back to do a round-up...

... commonly used as a cloak fastening. One of the most exciting finds was a Norse spinning tool, the oldest household implement of European origin ever found in America. A smithy with a large quantity of iron was also unearthed and near it a charcoal kiln. Westward to Vinland is a popular account...

..., she had been at work on a more restricted effort, a recounting of the events in the Baja California revolution of 1911. The present booklet is that enterprise, unearthed through Devis’s diligence. The 1960 book, too, covered the 1911 events, albeit somewhat more briefly. It embodied the entire history...

... of leadership among figures like Mitre. The career of the Mexican positivist Francisco Bulnes is used to explore the origins of the neo-authoritarian and militarist tendencies of the Latin American elites from around 1917. An “Autumn Song in Summer” unearths doubts among qualified commentators about the future...

... of the statistics and more basic research than is presented here, especially on the period before 1877. The section on land tenure omits data on the adjudication of land titles after the Reform, despite the fact that scholars such as Wilkie have unearthed records which shed considerable light on quantitative...

...Charles A. Hale The second half of the book departs from the economic determinism of dependency theory and turns instead to the rise of “Americanism” in literature. Andrés Bello was the progenitor, emphasizing historical research and the unearthing of cultural facts, especially from the colonial...

..., Greece, Spain, and Portugal. The text is devoted largely to the reproduction in Spanish translation of nearly a score of documents which the author unearthed from the archives of the Portuguese foreign ministry while he was Venezuelan minister to Portugal during World War I. The bulk of the documents...

... Columbus and his shipmates might have seen. Determining the positive contribution of this work to Columbus historiography is both a simple and a complex task. The book is not a biography of Columbus in the conventional sense. The author admits that he has not unearthed any new material. Indeed...

... not unearthed new materials. They rely heavily on official publications and the like, but they do make new use of them. If the results are not always as revisionist as they claim, there is much here that repays close reading and much, too, that suggests valuable research yet to be done. The book opens...

... Press 1996 Over the last decade, archaeological studies of the Moche (or Mochica) culture of Peru’s north coast have experienced an unprecedented renaissance. Although the recent work was stimulated by the discovery of royal tombs at Sipán and the subsequent unearthing of exquisite murals at Huaca...

... material has been unearthed, so many of Bolívar’s more intimate letters have come to light, that O’Leary’s text seems somewhat dry and unduly sober. Nevertheless it succeeds in giving an accurate picture of Bolívar and of the gigantic obstacles which blocked his path. The volume closes with the year 1826...