...Leonard Cárdenas, Jr. Among the Valiant Mexican-Americans in WWII and Korea . By Morin Raul . Los Angeles , 1963 . Borden Publishing Co . Notes. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 280 . $5.00 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Written in journalistic style...

...Orva Lee Ice, Jr. 65 Valiants . By Luiggi Alice Houston . Gainesville , 1965 . University of Florida Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. 191 . $5.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Having already written this “valiant” story in a previous Spanish edition...

...Seonaid Valiant The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico . By Christina Bueno . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 267 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright ©...

...Seonaid Valiant From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico . By Miruna Achim . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 327 pp. Paper , $30.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...

...Seonaid Valiant South of the Border: Women Travelers to Latin America . Edited by Evelyn M. Cherpak Charleston, SC : Palmetto Publishing , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Bibliography . xx, 305 pp. Paper, $17.99 . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 In South...

...Seonaid Valiant Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections . Edited by Miruna Achim , Susan Deans-Smith , and Sandra Rozental . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2021 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Table. Notes. Index . xi, 300 pp. Cloth, $50.00...

...Seonaid Valiant [email protected] Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City . By Delia Cosentino and Adriana Zavala . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press...

..., Las Monjas constitutes a valiant attempt at “orderly assemblage of information” (p. viii). The material in it is vital to Maya studies. Many contributed to Las Monjas . Ian Graham offers crisp photographs and drawings of lintel soffit texts. The late J. Eric S. Thompson determines a dedicatory...

... structures that emerged. This question aside, Whitehead’s book makes an admirable stab at capturing an elusive history of a valiant people which should interest historians of indigenous peoples and colonial experiences of the entire hemisphere. ...

...’ brother, Juancho, was both a homosexual and a valiant soldier. Eduardo Michelena ( El Nacional , 6 July 1975, p. 4) found both allegations to be beyond belief. In sum, Gómez el amo del poder , although flawed, provides fascinating reading, represents a new turn in Venezuelan historiography, and may...

... of the horse and primitive weapons of steel. The Chichimecas, who lost little time mastering the horse, proved a valiant and formidable enemy. Miguel Caldera spent a lifetime in the second half of the sixteenth century protecting Spanish efforts to exploit the rich silver deposits discovered in Zacatecas...

... higher education, dates only to 1958. Acquired by valiant effort during Luis Somoza’s rule, university autonomy has gradually eroded since 1979. This is the first comprehensive analysis of Nicaraguan education to appear after the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. It covers the literacy crusade of 1980...

... his abbreviated second administration (1982-85), comes off as the most admirable ruler of contemporary Bolivia. Morales particularly lauds Siles’ Third World–oriented foreign policy and the valiant attempts at getting back a seacoast from Chile a century after Bolivia’s loss in the War of the Pacific...

... too much, disappointments set in. (p. 401) The writing is good, and there is a valiant attempt to base the analysis on Freudian and Weberian theory. The bibliography is up-to-date, and, although the narratives sometimes appear tedious, the authors demonstrate that the oral histories of the groups...

... and industrious farmers, valiant, strong and peaceable” (p. 12). Reff asserts that these contradictory views of Indian culture testify to the catastrophic demographic and cultural decline of the region’s native societies. One of Reff’s intentions is to test the Mexico-Peru models of disease and demographic...

... aspirants were members of the MDB during those nearly 15 years, there is considerable value in seeing just what roles each of them really played—as distinct from their present claims that they led a valiant struggle against military authoritarianism. Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

.... The region’s great territory and varying terrain often defeated the most valiant efforts of the early Spanish explorers as well as the later Jesuit missionaries. Tragedy repeatedly visited the various Indian groups. First they suffered a massive kill-off from the introduction of European diseases...

... under the control of caudillos, frequently of backgrounds and aspirations at odds with those of their rural followers. This explains the nature of the revolt and the present institutionalized system. Despite valiant efforts by historians to explain the course of the Mexican Revolution, much of what...

.... Mexico’s economic collapse (the death of the “boom”), virtually on the heels of a “miracle” certified as just and enduring by North American scholars, has given birth to frantic efforts to explain what went wrong. James D. Cockcroft’s book makes a valiant and provocative attempt not only to do...

... of his [Lampião’s] preoccupations” (p. 246). On the other hand, the society in which Lampião grew up “was one in which a valiant young man such as he could fall into banditry all too easily” (p. 247). In any case, there was much of Jesse James and precious little of Robin Hood in Lampião’s makeup. ...