... Sir Thomas More in New Spain. A Utopian Adventure of the Renaissance . By Zavala Silvio . London , 1955 . The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Councils . Illustration . Pp. 20 . 2 shillings . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...Jerry W. Cooney Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed . By Gott Richard . New York : Verso , 1993 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index , xv , 320 pp. Cloth . $34.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 From the Pantanal...

...Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project . By Stephen E. Lewis . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 343 pp...

... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 In this highly original, creative, and illuminating study, Daniel Chávez interrogates twentieth-century Nicaraguan history through the lens of utopian political and literary discourses as expressed during three successive state formations: the era of Somocismo...

... for alternate ideologies or narratives in Cuba” (p. 170), yet in response one might argue that Conde, in his relentless struggle to unmask and combat the corruption of the utopian project, is in fact the representation of the new man, albeit an increasingly isolated one. As a questioner and an observer...

...Thomas Krueggeler All in all, the author’s struggle against the notions of the colonial legacy and continuous Andean utopianism is not very convincing. The set of empirical data used in this study is not solid enough to support his often wordy theoretical discussions and the author never asks...

... utopian connotations. She then takes up the utopian imaginings of Paititi and El Dorado, as expressed in colonial literature and geographical exploration. The material presented in these chapters is interesting and valuable for specialists; and it fills out the context for the life history of Bohorques...

... an examination of the essential differences separating medieval fable from Renaissance travel literature, to a general survey of Western European utopian thought, along with the analyses of particular variants of this thought in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America. Among...

... pragmatic rationalism contrasts with two of the most committed utopians of the revolutionary generation—Thomas Paine and Abbé Grégoire. Paine’s later years were indeed overfull with disillusion. The antireligion of his “Age of Reason” was not welcome either in Great Britain or the United States, and Paine...

... in the Ecuadorian and Bolivian Andes, a region rarely considered in the global geography of revolution. Paige's concept of revolution in the new book emphasizes subjective consciousness, as seen in the political actors' utopian imagination. The aspiration to “turn the world upside down” is indeed a classic...

.... This is not to say that the book is an annotated Trujillo del Perú ; rather, the author examines the bishop, the reforms, and Peru through the lens of Martínez Compañón's work. The driving conviction of Berquist Soule's book is that Martínez Compañón envisioned a utopian Trujillo. He understood that Trujillo...

.... During the crisis of 1810 those warrior-priests molded this indigenously Mexican spiritual heritage into a patriotic, utopian, and Messianic ideology for political emancipation from Spain. Servando Teresa de Mier and Carlos María de Bustamante justified political freedom as the restoration...

... books under review reflect a resurgence of interest in the concept of “utopia” in the early modern Spanish empire. Serrano Gassent’s Vasco de Quiroga is an intellectual study of the first bishop of Michoacan (1538–65), whose political thought was utopian in the strict sense: it was directly influenced...

... Marxist tendency, evident among scholars he refers to contemptuously as “modern sociologists,” to deny to the historical Peru the status of nation. He deplores the utopianism he finds in Peruvian Marxism, with its insistence that the past be destroyed in its entirety so that a worthy Peru can finally...

..., there did exist a utopian-socialist current in Latin America. Some European Utopians went there, and some Latin American intellectuals had contacts in Europe and brought back those ideas to their own countries. Thus socialist ideas of that time took root among intellectuals and some artisan groups even...

... examines, as if an essential “evangelization” and “utopianism” germinated from a single seed. The isolation of friars and Indians supposedly achieved in the Franciscans’ colleges and in Vasco de Quiroga’s “hospital-towns” in mid-sixteenth-century New Spain is said to equal the “spiritual quarantine” (p...

... it, or envisage alternatives to it. The latter, utopian option — and there is a streak of utopianism running through Escobar’s book — is a mode of critical imagination. The movements Escobar analyzes only provide glimpses of this vision. But the vision can drive activist work that seeks to restrain rampant...

... lay in the utopian lake, a sludge we vainly tried to scrub off with suntan lotion in the showers of an enormous cargo hold. I am sure we were neither the first nor the last to do so. I share this anecdote to highlight the tensions explored in Feichtner's evocative study of the twentieth-century...

... and distribution data provided to Allende’s staff during the strike by thousands of daily telex messages helped them to thwart the bourgeois strikers’ goal of demobilizing the national economy. Interestingly, Stafford Beer embraced a more utopian vision of the revolutionary aims of Chilean cybernetics than did...

..., trafficked in 2013. The author wields vivid descriptions of rape, whippings, and massacres to shatter California's utopian image. But as Saidiya Hartman cautions, blow-by-blow accounts of spectacular violence transfigure enslaved people into inhuman bodies, replicate their worst moments, and obscure...