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...José Orozco Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the US-Mexico Borderlands . By Miroslava Chávez-García . David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv...

...James Lockhart Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations . By Marcus Joyce . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Tables. Index . xxii, 495 pp. Cloth. $45.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press...

... written by an Indian, is entirely unique in the Andean context. 5 The contrast between Mesoamerican abundance and Andean scarcity is starkest when it comes to the sort of writing that Nahua scholar James Lockhart calls “mundane” — in other words, practical and quotidian documentation as opposed...

...John Nist The Modernist Idea: A Critical Survey of Brazilian Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Martins Wilson . Translated by Tomlins Jack E. . New York , 1970 . New York University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 345 . Cloth. $9.50 . Copyright 1972 by Duke...

... actively conspiring against retrograde, monarchical, oligarchic Europe. As Raúl Coronado's A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture (2013) and the forthcoming work of Lina del Castillo suggest, the Monroe Doctrine was ultimately the cocreation of reluctant US diplomats...

... terse translations. Omitted are ambiguities and nuances of meanings invoked by words such as oficial (rendered without hesitation as “assistant”). Translated excerpts are not paired with Spanish transcriptions, thereby preventing other renditions. These qualms hark back to the way writing relates...

...Judy Kalman The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing . By Salomon Frank and Niño-Murcia Mercedes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 368 pp. Paper , $25.95...

...Ernesto Capello Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America . By Rama Ángel . Edited and translated by Frye David . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Notes. Index. xix, 243 pp. Paper...

...Alan Knight Writing Mexican History . By Van Young Eric . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 338 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Eric Van Young is a major historian of colonial Mexico, now...

... pp. Paper, $17.95 . Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations . Edited by Joseph Gilbert M. , Legrand Catherine C. , and Salvatore Ricardo D. . Foreword by Fernando Coronil . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham...

...A. Curtis Wilgus Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 A History of Historical Writing . By Barnes Harry Elmer . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1937 . Pp. XIV , 434 . $3.50 .) ...

...Manuel Medrano [email protected] Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes . By Laura Leon Llerena . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2023 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 250 pp. Cloth, $65.00...

...John Starosta Galante [email protected] Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism . By Tullio Pagano . Amherst, MA : Amherst College Press , 2023 . Notes. 219 pp. Paper, $28.99 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Colonialism can take...

...Heinrich Berlin Maya hieroglyphic writing, An introduction . By Thompson J. Eric S. . Norman , 1960 . University of Oklahoma Press . Illustrations. Glossary. Index . Pp. xxiii , 432 . $10 . Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...Katarzyna Mikulska Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing . By Gordon Whittaker . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . 223 pp. Cloth, $34.95 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke...

... it has become Mexico's singular early case of picaresque writing with something of a literary pedigree, and Sigüenza y Góngora does fit with the concerns of The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico 's recent authors about the “perils of intellectual and creative labor” (p. 125). But who would have...

...Linda A. Newson This well-written book is based on a thorough analysis of the writings of the three medical practitioners, as well as on newspapers, including the Mercurio Peruano , and archival research. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima will be of interest to scholars of both the history...

...Ivor L. Miller Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign . By Martínez-Ruiz Bárbaro . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 228 pp. Cloth , $75.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke...

... history. It allows us to write the history of patriarchy as a hegemonic process related to the processes of state and class formation and defined by tensions, contradictions, and appropriations, as well as subjugations, regulations, and restrictions. Reintroducing patriarchy as a central category...