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... relationship to Latin America from their anticolonial perspective as migrants. The book connects with a new, critical literature in American Studies about the significance of the rise of the U.S. empire in the works of writers such as Emerson, Whitman, and Helen Hunt Jackson, and new explorations...

... Those Wild West Indies . By Whitman Edmund S. . ( New York : Sheridan House , 1938 . Pp. 316 . Illus.) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...Gabriel Jackson Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 The Struggle for Madrid: the Central Epic of the Spanish Conflict. (1936-37) . By Colodny Robert Garland . New York City , 1958 . Paine-Whitman Publishers . Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations . Pp. 256...

.... A necessary secondary theme is the role of America in human history either as land of degeneration or land of promise. This theme, Gerbi finds in the sixteenth century in religious discussion and traces down to the nineteenth century in a juxtaposition of Dickens and Whitman. Most readers probably would have...

... coins, the fineness of the silver, and the metallic combinations are included. The period covered is generally from about 1850 to date. Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 A Guide Book of Modern Latin American Coins . By Harris Robert P. . Racine , 1966 . Whitman...

..., Dion E. Phillips clearly explains why the creation of the Barbados Defense Force was delayed until 13 years after the island attained political independence. Whitman Browne shows how the overt militarism of St. Kitts-Nevis may paradoxically diminish the nation’s sovereignty and security. Pablo...

...; the place of journalism in Latin America and the United States and its meaning as a literary genre; and Martí's essays, reviewed in detail, with passages from some of his most femous ones, including "Coney Island” (1881), “Walt Whitman" (1887), “Ralph Waldo Emerson” (1882), and "The Charleston Earthquake...

... work by Juan Ramón Jiménez and Rubén Darío. The selections that compose the bulk of her book include samplings from both the literary and political dimensions of Martí’s works. She includes Martí’s literary essays on Walt Whitman, Cecilio Acosta, and Alexander Pushkin, plus excerpts from Ismaelillo...

...: that of “composing another Don Quijote —which would be easy” instead of “the” Don Quijote , as Menard/Borges mischievously preferred. Similarly, as an influence behind the “Conjectural Poem,” it seems less relevant to mention Browning than Walt Whitman’s “Death Sonnet for Custer,” to which Borges’ reflective poem...

... buildings, we assist in the process by which (quoting Walt Whitman) “‘America, from its many far back sources . . . identifies its own’ ” (p. 212). In this mission, the author succeeds quite well, though I would question his assertion that “Acoma Pueblo on its high rock, with its church of San Esteven...

... and culture, and wrote fundamental essays on Emerson, Grant, and Whitman. Admiration for the United States was mixed with reservations: Marti, like the Puerto Rican Betances, saw the power of the United States as profoundly threatening to the Caribbean and Latin America. But it was in United States territory...

... such as Emerson, Whitman, and Helen Hunt Jackson, and new explorations on the origins of modernism. The author advances the scholarship on Martí beyond canonical works, e.g., “Nues- tra América,” to other lesser known and even recently discovered writing, subjecting both the well-known writings...

..., “Licentious Liberty,” 171. Also see Stephen Whitman, “Diverse Good Causes: Manumission and the Transformation of Urban Slavery,” Social Science History 19, no. 3 (1995): 346, focused on Baltimore. 39 Most studies of manumission do not consider change over time. For the rare exceptions, see Higgins...

...—as North American corporations continued to introduce new methods and technology and explore new markets. The liberal developmentalism of the 1920s and 1930s changed in style and sophistication, if not in substance, as it was reinterpreted and adopted by a new generation of North Americans (Walt Whitman...

...-Year Retrospect” took place at the Central America Committee meeting at 7 P.M. on January 7 at the Marriott. With Ralph Lee Woodward (Tulane University) chairing the session, Michel Gobat (University of Chicago), Julie Charlip (Whitman College), Michael Schroeder (University of Michigan, Flint...