...Carleton Sprague Smith Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 A Wind from the North: The Life of Henry the Navigator . By Bradford Ernle . New York , 1960 . Harcourt, Brace and Company . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 277 . $5.00 . ...

...Lesley Byrd Simpson The Wind That Swept Mexico. The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 . Text by Brenner Anita ; 184 historical photographs assembled by Leighton George R. . ( New York : Harper and Brothers , 1943 . Pp. 100 . $3.75 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke...

...Maurice de Young A High Wind in Jamaica or the Innocent Voyage . By Hughes Richard . Introduction by Watkins Vernon . New York , 1961 . Signet Classic . New American Library of World Literature . Pp. 191 . $0.60 . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963...

...Robert Alexander South Wind Ped. Our Hemisphere Crisis . By Ray Philip A. . Chicago , 1962 . Henry Regnery Company . Appendix. Index . Pp. viii , 242 . $5.00 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 This book has a simple thesis to sell: that the only salvation...

...Robert E. Quirk The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 . Text by Brenner Anita with photographs assembled by Leighton George R. . Austin and London , 1971 (1943) . University of Texas Press . Illustrations. Index . Pp. 310 . Cloth. $10.00...

... As unexpectedly as money, status, and fame came to Chijo, they melted into thin air: “Life! What a beautiful opportunity, it vanished like hurricane winds,” he lamented in the only segment of the surviving tapes in which he talked about his ephemeral prosperity. 54 Indeed, the “hurricane winds” of the 1970s...

...Matthew Mulcahy Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba . By Pérez Louis A. Jr . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2001 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 216 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper...

...Neill Macaulay The Winds of December . By Dorschner John and Fabricio Roeerto . East Rutherford, N.J. : Coward, McCann and Geoghegan Publishers , 1980 . Map. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 552 . Cloth. $15.95 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press...

... . River Falls , 1974 . University of Wisconsin-River Falls Press . Maps. Illustrations. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 135 . Cloth . $12.95 ; Paper . $5.95 . The Winds of Tomorrow. Social Change in a Maya Town . By Thompson Richard A. . Chicago , 1974 . The University...

...James L. Busey The Winds of Revolution—Latin America Today and Tomorrow . By Szulc Tad . New York , 1963 . Frederick A. Praeger . The Praeger Contemporary World Series. No. 9 . Index . Pp. 302 . $5.95 Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Tad Szulc is one...

... a story. What then is the book’s raison d’être? If anything, it is the exposition of what Landström considers as Columbus’ great secret, the “revolutionary innovation” (p. 191) which persuaded the Spanish monarchs to back him. This secret was his route across the ocean: west with the trade winds...

... and inbound voyages, focus almost exclusively on his daily challenge of figuring out where he was and how to get where he was going. In 1779 this proved unusually difficult. He got off to a late start, well into the season when contrary winds forced ships to sail far west before heading north. He also lacked...

... the Canaries lie off the coast of Africa. If there is some way to determine that the prevailing winds here would carry a square rigged ship to America and back, then this man should enlighten the sciences of navigation and oceanography. Torodash says the citation of authorities is of a selective nature...

.... The opening chapter traces various academic approaches to empire by historians and archaeologists. VanValkenburgh then defines his own approach to empire. Through “landscape genealogy,” he examines the connection between domestic life, imperial decrees, “and seasonal cycles of rain and wind, the occasionally...

... and distinct, though related, problems: (1) “The Determination of the Length of a Terrestrial Degree by Columbus” (and, a crucial corollary, “An Estimate of the Extension of Asia Eastward”); (2) “The Route of Columbus on His First Voyage As Evidence of His Knowledge of the Winds and Currents of the Atlantic...

... of the Ocean Sea that “it was merely his [Columbus’] good fortune that the same wind carried his fleet all the way to America,” but neglects Morison’s previous statement in the very same paragraph that Columbus “must have observed on his [prior] African voyage that a westward course from the Canaries would...

... new light on long-standing historiographies. As much a social and cultural history as a history of storms, the swirling winds of the hurricane provide the centripetal force necessary for a unified narrative of this complex and varied region. Schwartz is not the first to place hurricanes...

..., transatlantic trade, hacienda and plantation systems, and animal, water, wind, and electrical and petroleum power—transfers that took place in a Mesoamerican social, ecological, and historical context and a transatlantic context. He concludes by laying out how the approaches discussed in this volume should...

... o'clock in the morning the sky cleared and by three o'clock in the afternoon it was already night. Rain, snow, frost, wind, solitude, tragic sadness were filling all our sensations.” 89 Yet while many of these men had been detained in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay, in Ushuaia they were rarely...

... associated with the opening of the French wars of religion. Particularly interesting are the author’s insights into court factions and intrigues which have added to our understanding of the winding policies followed by Catherine de Medici and the French Crown. For her material Miss Roelker has relied heavily...