Monday, December 13, 2010

English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies, 1588-1595

Andrews, Kenneth R., ed., English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies, 1588-1595; documents relating to English voyages to the West Indies from the defeat of the Armada to the last voyage of Sir Francis Drake, including Spanish documents contributed by Irene A. Wright, Cambridge, Eng. : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959. [Hardcover]

PUBLICATIONS OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY 1847-1995 - 2/111
Documents, some summarized entirely or in part, relating to twenty-five voyages, drawn mainly from the records of the High Court of Admiralty, with selections from narratives printed by Hakluyt and from a quantity of translations by I. A. Wright of originals (1593-5) in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville intended for a further volume on English West Indies Voyages (see Second Series 66, 71 and 99 above). The Introduction gives an account of the Court itself and of privateering during the Spanish war and in the West Indies.

Crítica Histórica

García Lluberes, Leonidas, Crítica histórica, Academia Dominicana de la Historia, Volumen XVI, Santo Domingo: Editora Montalvo, 1964.

Leonidas García Lluberes

Edad Media de la isla La Española. Historia de Santo Domingo

Lugo Herrera, Isidro Américo, Edad Media de la isla La Española. Historia de Santo Domingo después de 1556 y 1608, [puesta al dia con notas de Fray Cirpriano de Utrera] Ciudad Trujillo: Editorial Libreria Dominicana, 1952. (carpeta blanda)

Isidro Américo Lugo Herrera (Ciudad Colonial, 4 de abril de 1870 † Santo Domingo, 4 de agosto de 1952). Fue un ensayista, historiador y jurista dominicano.Fue discípulo de Eugenio María de Hostos.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

La población indígena y él mestizaje en América, Vol. II

Rosenblat,Ángel La población indígena y él mestizaje en América Buenos Aires: Editorial Nova, 1954, 2ndo vol.

Ángel Rosenblat


Scholars of race and racialization in Latin America, such as Angel Rosenblat and Magnus Mörner, have adopted Lipshütz's concept, as have some of those who study South African and U.S. race relations, in order to make sense of how race mixture is managed.


Ángel Rosenblat (1902-1984) fue uno de los más grandes sabios e investigadores de la demografía histórica y lingüistica de las Americas. (...) Fue uno de los grandes investigadores, a quien debemos conocimiento de la dinámica demográfica de la población autóctona de América. A la vez trabajó sobre el desarollo de la teoría del mestizaje como proceso principal de formación de modelos demográficos y culturales de América iberica, hoy América Latina y Caribe.

La Revolución dominicana y la Crisis de la OEA

Estrella, Julio C., La Revolución dominicana y la Crisis de la OEA Santo Domingo, 1965.

Dedicatoria:
A mi Tio Licenciado Rafael Estrella Ureña, Ex-presidente de la República, luchador infatigable en la jornada nacionalista del año 1916; Fallecido el 16 de septiembre de 1945.


J.C. Estrella (?)

Títulos de los terrenos comuneros de la República Dominicana

Alburquerque, Alcibíades, Títulos de los terrenos comuneros de la República Dominicana, Ciudad Trujillo: Impresora Dominicana, 1961. 170 p.

Citado en Los campesinos del Cibao: economía de mercado y transformación agraria en la República Dominicana 1880-1960 por Pedro Luis San Miguel.

Note: On the first page of the book's prologue, the author apparently scribbled a reference to an article in Caribbean Studies which I surmise is H. HOETINK, Materiales para el estudio de la República Dominicana en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.

Support the Dominican People's Resistance to U.S. Armed Aggression

Peoples Republic of China, Support the Dominican People's Resistance to U.S. Armed Aggression, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965.

Contains Mao Tse-Tung's May 12, 1965 statement.

la Faceta Dinámica de Duarte

Troncoso Sánchez, Pedro, la Faceta Dinámica de Duarte, Santo Domingo de Guzmán: Junta Central Electoral, Enero, 1967.

Del Prologo:
La Junta Central Electoral se propone realizar un programa de difusión de cultura cívica, a través de la publicación de artículos y escritos que traten temas de esta naturaleza, como una contribución al desarrollo de la educación, con la esperanza de estimular y fortalecer en cada dominicano la conciencia de la moral pública, tan necesario para que la vida nacional sea una realidad democrática, pura y estable, no solamente en el funcionamiento de las instituciones públicas sino en el espíritu de cada ciudadano.

Over

Marrero Aristy, Ramón, Over, Santo Domingo: Librería Dominicana, Editora, 1963.

Wiki Dominicana
Nació en San Rafael del Yuma el 14 de junio de 1913. Novelista, periodista e historiador. Hijo de Juan Aristy y Olivia Beltré. (...) Sus obras narrativas más notables son: Balsié, una decena de narraciones y estampas sobre política y costumbres dominicanas, y la novela Over, que relata la deplorable estrechez económica que padecían los traba-jadores de los ingenios azucareros nacionales. Over sitúa a Marrero Aristy entre los novelistas nacionales más notables de la primera mitad del siglo XX y uno de los más importantes cultivadores de la tendencia denominada novela de la caña. Murió en Santo Domingo el 17 de julio de 1959. Dejó inédita la novela El camión rojo.

Exposición iconográfica, UNPHU, 1884 - 1991

Biblioteca Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez, Exposición iconográfica, 29 de junio, 1884 - 1991 diseño gráfico, montaje y coordinación general Graciela Azcárate. Santo Domingo: UNPHU, 1991 17 p. : retrs.

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

La guerra del fin del mundo

Vargas Llosa, Mario, La guerra del fin del mundo, Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1981. [cubierta original de Antoni Tàpies]

Google books

La guerra del fin del mundo (1981) es una novela del escritor peruano y Premio Nobel de literatura 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, reconocida como una de sus grandes creaciones. En ella, recrea literariamente la Guerra de Canudos, acontecimiento histórico ocurrido en 1896 en el que se movilizaron más de 10.000 soldados de 17 estados brasileños.

The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826

Lynch, John, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1973.

John Lynch wikipedia entry

The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1974

Journal of Latin American Studies © 1973

Francisco de Toledo: Fifth Viceroy of Peru 1569-1581

Zimmerman, Arthur Franklin, Francisco de Toledo: Fifth Viceroy of Peru 1569-1581 Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1938. [hardcover]

From the Introduction:
The aims of the author of this volume have been, first, to show how the viceroy, the all-important representative of the Spanish kings in the New World, actually carried out the colonial government; and second, to describe the work of the one viceroy who, perhaps more than any other, laid the legal foundations for the Spanish colonial policy. In order to do this, the author has not only consulted most of the secondary materials available both in English and Spanish, but has had recourse to the unpublished documents in the National Library of Santiago de Chile, the National Library of Lima, Peru; the Library of Congress at Washington D.C.; the National Library at Madrid, Spain; and most important of all, the Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain.


The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1939

Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer

Leighly, John, Ed., Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1963.

The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1964

From a review by Ralph L. Beals, UCLA in American Anthropologist, Volume 67, Issue 1, Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009 -
No other geographer of this century has been as interested in anthropology or has said so much of interest to anthropologists as has Carl Ortwin Sauer. Appropriately, ten out of the 19 writings selected for this volume are of direct interest to anthropologists. Anthropologists will find the remainder good reading. Sauer is an omnivorous reader and he writes with charm. He deals conscientiously with facts. But he also likes to discover far-reaching and unsuspected relationships, he likes to be provocative, and he does not hesitate to speculate. Many will find Sauer most satisfactory in the four papers on Human Uses of the Organic World. These are human ecology at its best, masterful correlations of complex data ranging from climates and soils, through plant genetics, to man’s place in changing the landscape.

Interpreting Latin American History from. Independence to Today

Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo, Interpreting Latin American History: from Independence to Today, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. [paperback]

Excerpts from the author's preface:
The book is divided into three sections: Section One includes the histories of four republics: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. The editor chose these countries because, in his opinion, Latin America embraces at least five peculiar historical currents. At one extreme lies what he would call the "European" republics where Europeans and their descendants account for nearly all of the population and where the culture and ideas of Europe predominate... A second category consists of the "mestizo" republics, where the Spanish conqueror superimposed his way of life upon large indigenous populations which, through the mestizo offspring of Spaniard and Indian, survived to modify not only the Spanish "race" but local culture and civilization as well. (...) Spaniard and Negro joined together to produce yet another historical current, particularly in the Caribbean and the Spanish Main. (...) Brazil, the sole Portuguese colony in the Americas, represents a fourth category. (...) Haiti with its French and Negro heritage, forms a fifth category. (...)

In Section Two, the editor has attempted to fill in some of the gaps left by selection of only four countries. It contains topics of particular importance to the histories of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela which, at the same time, represent cross currents of Latin American growth. (...)

Section Three includes topical issues that cut across national boundaries and carry implications for each republic in the hemisphere...


Obituary in The Washington Post, Tuesday, July 13, 2010:
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, 88, a renowned historian of Mexico and Latin America whose books included in-depth studies of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, died July 6 at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He had cancer and suffered complications from a recent fall. Dr. Ruiz joined the history department at the University of California at San Diego in 1970 and chaired the department in the early '70s. He wrote 15 books, including "Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People," "Cuba: The Making of a Revolution," "The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924" and "On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor."

The Population of Latin America, A History

Sánchez-Albornoz, Nicolás. The Population of Latin America, A History, translated by W. A. R. Richardson, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. [paperback]

Citado en Historia de América Latina por Leslie Bethell.

Journal of Social History © 1978

From Latin American Demographic History in the Age of the World Wide Web: National Census Samples as Historical Sources, by Robert McCaa:
Demographic historians of Latin America focus much of their research effort on the protostatistical era--the century of conquest and colonialization, the era of the Bourbons, and even the nineteenth century. Few population historians of Latin America devote attention to the first decades of the twentieth century, much less the recent past, say from 1960. The Bible for our field, Nicolas Sanchez Albornoz's The Population of Latin America (University of California Press, 1974; revised Spanish edition, 1994), offers not only a comprehensive overview of the region's demographic past but also looks into Latin America's future. Much of Sanchez Albornoz's interpretation on the course of population change in the twentieth century is based on the research of demographers, not historians.

Colonial Hispanic America: A History

Chapman, Charles Edward, Colonial Hispanic America: A History, New York: MacMillan Co., 1933. [my father has two Hardcover copies of this book]

The Catholic Historical Review © 1935


Cited in Hispanic American Bibliographies by C. K. Jones.

Obituary of Dr. Charles Edward Chapman, 17 November, 1941, at Berkeley, California. Dr. Chapman took part in the establishment of THE HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Dominican Republic: Nation in Transition

Wiarda, Howard J., The Dominican Republic: Nation in Transition, New York: Praeger, 1969. [Hard Cover]

Review by Manuel Ortega in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs.

Informe de la Comisión de Investigación de los Estados Unidos en Santo Domingo en 1871

Rodríguez Demorizi, Emilio, (prefacio y notas) Informe de la Comisión de Investigación de los Estados Unidos en Santo Domingo, 1871, Ciudad Trujillo, Editora Montalvo, Santo Domingo, 1960, 650 pp.

Wade, B. F. Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo with the Introductory Message of the President, Special Reports made to the Commission/#...#. Ed. A. D. White and S. G. (Samuel Gridley) Howe. Washington, D.C.: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1871.


US President Grant appointed:
a Commission of Inquiry to visit Santo Domingo early in 1871 ... composed of five men, among them Senator Benjamin F. Wade, Cornell University president Andrew D. White, and philanthropist minister Samuel G. Howe, together with former U.S. envoy to Colombia A. A. Burton and the renown abolitionist Frederick Douglass as secretaries. It arrived in Santo Domingo on January 16, 1871, along with a cadre of scientists led by geologist William M. Gabb. They were charged with ascertaining popular support for annexation and assessing the physical, moral and intellectual conditions of the people and the quality of the land and its resources. As with previous U.S. government agents, part of the commissions' task was to assess the racial composition of the country and the power of the white elite, both of which were central to any viable colonization or annexation scheme. After spending two months in the country, and several weeks in Haiti, the commissioners concluded that "the interests of our country and of San Domingo alike invite the annexation of that republic," as President Grant informed Congress.


For a background, see Efforts to Annex Santo Domingo to the United States, 1866-1871, by Harold T. Pinkett in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan., 1941), pp. 12-45; Published by: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc..

See also Frederick Douglass and the Annexation of Santo Domingo.

Instituciones

Ots y Capdequí, José María, Instituciones, Barcelona: Salvat Editores, 1959.

Volumen que integra la Historia de América y de los pueblos americanos, dirigida por Antonio Ballesteros y Beretta.


Extracto de MAESTROS DEL AMERICANISMO; ANTONIO BALLESTEROS BERETTA (1880-1949), por Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois:
Poco antes de la guerra civil, don Santiago Salvat hace a don Antonio [Ballesteros y Beretta] una propuesta de gran alcance: ¿por qué no iniciar una gran Historia de América, de cuya dirección se encargada don Antonio? No sé contestar a la pregunta que hago a mis recuerdos (la misma que plantea qué fue antes, si el huevo o la gallina) de si la idea surgió de don Antonio y la propuesta editorial de don Santiago, o a la inversa, o si fue coincidencia. Lo cierto es que se acuerda una monumental historia americana —que se titularía Historia de América y de los Pueblos Americanos— en veinticinco volúmenes y que don Antonio se encarga de la «movilización », «enganche» y «recluta» de los colaboradores. Piensa, naturalmente, en los americanos, como Bravo Ugarte, Basadre, Pivel Devoto, Efraim Cardozo, Pedro Calmón, Sigfrido Radaelli, Barón Castro, Carlos Pereyra, etc., pero acude a su elenco de personas formadas por él, o de cuya valía tenía conocimiento por haber sido alumnos suyos del doctorado. Así se confecciona la lista de obras y de autores. Recuerdo que comentaba don Santiago Salvat> años después, refiriéndose a la impuntualidad de los autores en la entrega de sus obras: «Si todos hubieran de cumplir lo que entonces firmamos, la Editorial tendría apuros de tesoreria.»
Esta profecía, basada en la experiencia, resultó más dolorosa de lo que podía suponerse, ya que la obra ha quedado incompleta, precisamente porque los autores no sólo se retrasaban, sino que nunca entregaron los originales, mucho después de muerto don Antonio. Quedaron sin publicar los trabajos solicitados a Pérez
Bustamante, Jaime Delgado, Ezquerra Abadía, Barón Castro y los colombianos. Los originales de Radaelli y de Demetrio Ramos llegaron cuando ya la Editorial habia decidido suspender la publicación. La única Historia general de América, intentada con gran aliento por una editorial española, bajo la dirección de don Antonio, se frustró de esta manera. Repasemos el cuadro de colaboradores efectivos.
Entre ellos, como dije, aquellos primeros y más antiguos, que habían pasado por su cátedra del Doctorado. En primer lugar, Luis Pericot, al que convenció para que aplicara sus conocimientos etnológicos en un libro —siempre fundamental, con dos ediciones— que tituló América Indígena. Luego Amando Melón y Ruiz de Gordejuela sobre las primeras colonizaciones y navegaciones; Julián María Rubio sobre el Río de la Plata; Cayetano Alcázar, Antonio Ybot León. También los de últimas hornadas, como Francisco Esteve —Chile—, Manuel Ballesteros —Perú— y su último ayudante, Antonio Pardo Riquelme, que escribió sobre el Canadá.

Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America

Heath, Dwight B., Ed. Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America; a reader in the social anthropology of Middle and South America (2nd. Edition), New York: Random House, 1965. [Hard Cover]

Dwight B. Heath is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, Professor Dwight Heath is recognised as the world's leading anthropological authority on alcohol issues, and has acted as consultant on alcohol, drugs and addiction issues to varied agencies such as the World Health Organisation, the National Academy of Sciences, the International Center for Alcohol Policies, the Peace Corps, etc.


Review by Rodolfo Stavenhagen, American Anthropologist.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

La Batalla de Guatemala

Toriello, Guillermo, La batalla de Guatemala, Guillermo Toriello: México, 1955.

El Dr. Guillermo Toriello Garrido (Guatemala, 1911- Cuba, 1997) fue Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores en los gobiernos de Juan José Arévalo y Jacobo Arbenz. Presidiendo la delegación de Guatemala a la ciudad norteamericana de San Francisco (1945), fue uno de los firmantes de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas. Como Canciller, presidió la Delegación de Guatemala a la X Conferencia Interamericana efectuada en Caracas, Venezuela (1954). Fue el único de los 20 cancilleres presentes que votó en contra de la Resolución 93 que puso fin al principio de No Intervención. Tras el golpe de estado de la CIA al gobierno de Arbenz (1954), el Dr. Toriello vivió años de exilio en México y Europa.


Fundación Guillermo Toriello

Beyond Dependency: The Developing World Speaks Out

Erb, Guy F. & Valeriana Kallab, Eds., Beyond Dependency: The Developing World Speaks Out, Overseas Development Council, Sept, 1975.

Technology and Culture book review

Integration of Science and Technology with Development

Thomas, D. Babatunde & Miguel S. Wionczek, Eds., Integration of Science and Technology with Development / Caribbean and Latin American Problems in the Context of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, Pergamon Press: New York, 1979.

Proceedings of a symposium held in Miami, Apr. 6-8, 1978, sponsored by Florida International University, the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana.


The papers in this volume are organized under, and discuss the following areas:

1. The building of a minimum local capability to produce scientific knowledge and technological know-how is the preconditions for the successful application of science and technology to the solution of difficult intricate problems of underdevelopment;

2. the task of establishing a local science and technology capability in the development countries must start with strengthening S&T infrastructure, and improving or redesigning the mechanisms of technology transfer from the advanced countries;

3. there is a need to know more about concrete technological experiences and difficulties of individual LDC [Less Developed Countries] and, in particular of small LDCs, and

4. the time was ripe to take stock of the achievements and failures of numerous science and technology policy agencies established in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1960s and the early 1970s.

Republican Hispanic America: A History

Chapman, Charles Edward, Republican Hispanic America: A History, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. [Hardcover, excellent condition]

Charles Edward Chapman obituary in the Hispanic American Historical Review

Guide to the Charles Edward Chapman Papers: Additions, 1910-1941

A History of Latin America

Pendle, George, A History of Latin America, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963.

Cited by Robert N. Burr as one of two general histories of Latin America [Supplement to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 388, Political Intelligence for America's Future, March, 1970, footnote # 13, pg. 137]

Latin America and the Enlightenment

Whitaker, Arthur P., ed., Latin America and the Enlightenment, Second Edition, Ithaca, NY.:Great Seal Books, 1961.

CONTAINS ESSAYS BY ARTHUR P. WHITAKER, ROLAND D. HUSSEY, HARRY BERNSTEIN, JOHN TATE LANNING, ALEXANDER MARCHANT, and CHARLES C. GRIFFIN; INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO DE ONIS.


Hispanic American Historical Review

From the editor's PREFATORY NOTE:
Originally published in 1942, this little book has
long been out of print. Despite the fact that its
publication apparently stimulated, and in any case
was followed by, a great increase in the volume of
historical writing on various aspects of its central
theme, it still remains the only compact account
of the subject. Also, although the subsequent flood
of publication on the subject has added many new
details and brought about some change of inter-
pretation and emphasis, most of the main con-
clusions of the original essays are as valid today
as when they were first stated two decades ago.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Algo Asi Como Biografía [Poemas]

Mariona, Ernesto, Algo Así Como Biografía Lima, Perú, abril de 1971.

De la nota introductoria:
Una y otra generación latinoamericana, en sus ansias de vivir intensamente en el desvenir de un tiempo y espacio que parece no ser nuestro, alza su voz, protesta, gime, se angustia, arremete, crea... El subdesarrollo conlleva también el despojo de la palabra, de ahí nuestra lid para que ella fluya cual torrente libre, cargada de poder; y que pletórica de esperanza abra cauces en la búsqueda de nuevos tiempos y nuevos espacios - ahora muy nuestros.

Caribbean Generations

Gordon, Shirley C., Caribbean Generations: a CXC history source book, Trinidad, London, New York: Longman Caribbean, Longman Group, 1983.

This is a source book to help students and teachers to prepare for the history syllabus of the new Caribbean Examinations Council. The new history syllabus is not simply a list of topics to be studied. It provides objectives for the way history should be studied, as well as indicating the content of Caribbean history for the new 'O' level examination.

Socialism and Slavery

Millette, James, Socialism and Slavery, Trinidad and Tobago, WI: Moko Enterprises, 1978.

James Millette Emeritus Professor at Oberlin College

La Vorágine [Novel]

Eustasio Rivera, José, La vorágine, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, s.f.

"En noviembre de 1924, aparece en Bogotá La vorágine, novela colombiana que de inmediato ganó una remarcable reputación, por el contenido y creatividad con que el autor José Eustasio Rivera, hace llegar al lector los acontecimientos narrados en la obra. Esta, a la cual me referiré tomando algunos aspectos fundamentales a su estructura, unidad de tiempo, contenido, carácter social y rol histórico, es a mi juicio, una expresión vigente en la creatividad literaria de hoy y que puede ser resumida como el Macondo colombiano de 1924."
La vorágine: Valor histórico y estructura conceptual
Elías Letelier

Tobago [Journal article]

Edgar Anderson, Tobago, Baltische Hefte, Vol. 7, No. 4 and Vol. 8, Nos. 1, 3, and 4

Spanish Viceroys in America

Hanke, Lewis, Spanish Viceroys in America, Houston, Texas: University of St. Thomas, 1972.

Lewis Ulysses Hanke

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

Cohen, J.M., (translator), The discovery and conquest of Peru: a translation of books I-IV of Agustin de Zarate's History of these events, supplemented by eye-witness accounts of certain incidents by Francisco de Jerez, Miguel Estete, Juan Ruiz de Arce, Hernando Pizarro, Diego de Trujillo, and Alonso de Guzman, who took part in the conquest, and by Pedro Cieza de Leon, Garcilaso de la Vega "the Inca," and Jose de Acesta, later historians who had first hand sources of information / translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen ; illustrated by Edward Bawden, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968. [Paperback]

Agustín de Zárate:
Durante quince años fue contador del Consejo de Castilla y en 1543 fue nombrado contador de mercedes para el Virreinato del Perú y Tierra Firme. Llegó a América, al Virreinato del Perú, en 1544 en la expedición del primer virrey, Blasco Núñez de Vela. Estando en este puesto la Audiencia de Lima le nombró como negociador entre los encomenderos, que estaban al mando de Gonzalo Pizarro y el virrey. En plenas negociaciones fue apresado por Gonzalo Pizarro.


In 1543 Charles V sent Agustín de Zárate (b. 1514) to Perú along with Blasco Nüñez Vela, the first viceroy, to oversee finances. In 1545 Zárate returned to Spain with a collection of personal notes and other documents about the civil war. His history, divided into seven chapters, begins with the Spanish discovery of Perú and ends with the death of Gonzalo Pizarro and the restoration of royal authority by Governor Pedro de la Gasca. Aware of the dangers involved in writing about such recent and controversial matters, Zárate expressed a reluctance to publish his history during his lifetime, but a manuscript copy of it was read by Prince Phillip, the future King Philip II of Spain, who liked it so much that he ordered its publication. Zárate’s Historia was well received, and in 1577 it was reprinted in Seville. An Italian translation published in 1563 and an English translation published in 1581 are proof of its quick popularity outside of Spain.

Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon

Guppy, Nicholas, Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1961. [Paperback]

Here, graphically written and illustrated , is the perfect travel book. Wai-Wai is the first account of genuine exploration in a region which is almost unknown. For centuries, strange stories have come to us from the basin of the Amazon - of White Indians, of human beings living like otters in underwater caves, of the lost city of Kashima, and of female warriors. Nicholas Guppy penetrated the upper waters of the Rio Alto Trombetas to bring back this report. The result is all at once scientific discovery and magnificent adventure. 'Gives a fascinating account both of this still unspoiled Indian tribe and of the unique untouched rain-forests of the Guiana-Brazil border....' Dr. Julian Huxley.


Wai Wais to set up conservation area

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Los Estafadores de la Democracia : Hombres y Hechos en Guatemala

Nájera Farfán, Mario Efraín, Los estafadores de la democracia: hombres y hechos en Guatemala, Buenos Aires: GLEM, 1956.

Citado AQUI.

The West Indies Federation: Perspectives on a New Nation

Lowenthal, David, Ed., The West Indies Federation: Perspectives on a New Nation, New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.

Contributions:
1) The West Indies Emergent: Problems and Prospects, by H.W. Springer
2) The Survival of the Past in the West Indies, by Gordon Merrill
3) The Political Development of the West Indies, by Douglas G. Anglin
4) The Social Background of the West Indies Federation, by David Lowenthal


Race & Class review

Journal of Politics review

Ideología y Programa del Movimiento Aprista

Kantor, Harry, Ideología y programa del movimiento aprista, México, D.F.: Eds. Humanismo, 1955.

De la página 46 del documento (PDF) Sistematización Bibliográfica sobre los temas de Educación, Demografía y Economía en el Perú Actual de la UNESCO:
Publicado originalmente en Inglés en 1953, este libro es una presentación de la ideología aprista, ideología con la cual se identifica el autor. Este ordena por tópicos las ideas fundamentales que constituyen el cuerpo ideológico del APRA, sin detenerse en un análisis de ellas, ni de la evolución histórica, la organización y la práctica política aprista. El libro contiene una extensa bibliografía sobre el APRA, escritos por apristas y otros observadores de la época.

París en América [Novel]

de Laboulaye, Édouard René Lefebvre: París en América, Edición española, traducida por Augusto Lacort, ilustrada por A. Figuer, Barcelona: Valentín Acha, s.f.

Este hermoso libro, revestido de todos los atractivos de una interesante novela, envuelve un propósito serio y elevado. Poniendo frente a frente la vida política, social y doméstica de los Estados-Unidos y la de la Francia, nos hace asistir al curioso espectáculo que presenta un parangón animado e injenioso entre las ideas y costumbres americanas y las ideas y costumbres francesas. Por este medio nos permite sorprender el secreto de la grandeza y prosperidad de la patria de Washington, y el oríjen de los males que aquejan a la moderna Atenas, a la tierra de Voltaire y de Luis XIV.


Édouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, conocido en los países de habla hispana como Eduardo Laboulaye, nacido el 18 de enero de 1811 en París donde murió el 25 de mayo de 1883, fue un jurista y político francés. Fue diputado y posteriormente senador permanente de la Tercera república francesa. Es conocido por ser el inspirador de la idea de ofrecer una estatua que representara la «Libertad» a los Estados Unidos: la Estatua de la Libertad.


In English

The Ancient Civilizations of Peru

Mason, J. Alden, The Ancient Civilizations of Peru Baltimore: Pelican/Penguin Books, Inc., 1957. (paperback)

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An archaeological anthropologist and linguist, John Alden Mason spent the majority of his career at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his undergraduate degree at Penn in 1907, Mason received a doctorate at Berkeley (1911) for his ethnographic work on the Salinan Indians of California, but his diverse interests in later years ran the gamut from Puerto Rican folklore to Piman languages and cultures (including Pima, Papago, Pima Bajo, Northern and Southern Tepehuan, and Tepecano), Mayan, Aztec, and Incan archaeology, and the languages of South American Indians. Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.

Breve Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias Occidentales

de las Casas, Don Fray Bartolomé, Breve relación de la destrucción de las Indias Occidentales presentada a Felipe II siendo príncipe de Asturias, [Notas del licenciado Ignacio Romerovargas Yturbide] México: Libros Luciérnaga, 1957.

Bartolomé de las Casas

Las Casas Website

Partial text in English

Sunday, August 22, 2010

America Negra [journal]

América Negra: Expedición humana a la zaga de la América oculta, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, junio 1991, No. 1, Bogotá, Colombia.

Artículos
· Iglesia y escalvitud en Cuba JAVIER LAVIÑA

· Sur les racines africaines, le rapport à la mort dans la representation guadeloupeene du monde ALBERT FLAGIE

· El luto de sí mismo. Cuerpo, sombra y muerte entre los negros colombianos del Chocó ANNE-MARIE LOSONCZY

· Lumbalú: ritos de la muerte en Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia NINA S. DE FRIEDEMANN

· La ensenada de Tumaco: invisibilidad, incertidumbre e innovación JAIME AROCHA RODRIGUEZ

· Las migraciones Maipures: diversas líneas de evidencias para la interpretación arqueológica. ALBERTA ZUCCHI

· Manejo indígena de los espacios cultivados y la sucesión de la selva pluvial tropical BENHUR CERON SOLARTE

· La enfermedad genética enla cerámica Tumaco-La Tolita JAIME BERNAL VILLEGAS e IGNACIO BRICEÑO
Crónica
· Doctrina para negros. NINA S. DE FRIEDEMANN

· La Guajira. Pastores y palabreros hasta en el mar JAIME AROCHA RODRIGUEZ

· Bagadó: terrenos de la Expedición Humana NINA S. DE FRIEDEMANN

· La Expedición Humana entre los Tunebos JAIME BERNAL VILLEGAS

· Monólogo a gritos: negros blanquiados TIBERIO PEREA ASPRILLA
Documenta
· Protocolo para el derecho territorial de Palenque de San Basilio
· Querella por matrimonio
· Declaración sobre herencia africana en el Caribe
· Recomendación de Barcelona: libertad, diversidad y solidaridad
· Recomendación en Popayán: tercer seminario de cultura negra
· Expedición Humana: lista de proyectos

The Caribbean and Latin America: Political and Economic Relations

Waters, Maurice, The Caribbean and Latin America: Political and Economic Relations, Volume 1, A symposium held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1969.

Sessions:
1) Mario Monteforte Toledo - Political cooperation in the light of cultural and historical factors; 2) George Doxy - The OAS and regional non-members: the Canadian picture; 3) Sir Harold Mitchell - General discussion; 4) C.V. Narasimhan - Security: Today's needs; 5) Noel Brown - The OAS and regional non-members; 6) Daniel Oduber Quiros - The OAS and regional members; 7) Hon. Errol Barrow - General discussion; 8) Norman Girvan & Owen Jefferson - Integration from the viewpoint of the Caribbean; 9) Carlos Sanz de Santamaria - Integration from the viewpoint of the Latin America; 10) Tomas Pastoriza - General discussion; 11) Sidney Dell - Strategies for economic development; 12) J.C. Elizaga & George Roberts - Population problems; 13) Alfred Wolf - Development banking; 14) Ben Moore - General discussion; 15) Marcelo Alonso - Scientific and technical cooperation; 16) R.N. Murray - The prospective role of higher education; 17) H.A. Blaize - General discussion; 18) Arturo Morales-Carrion & Alister McIntyre - Summary

Immigration into the West Indies in the 19th Century

Laurence, Keith Ormiston, Immigration into the West Indies in the 19th Century, Barbados: Caribbean Universities Press edition, 1971.

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Editorial note:
D.G. Hall, E.V. Goveia & F.R. Augier - We are engaged in the writing and editing of a history of the Caribbean. In this work, we hope to achieve a regional approach, as far as the diverse histories of the various territories permit, and we believe that the work can greatly stimulate research and teaching throughout the area. Rather than hold contributions until the entire History has been assembled, we have decided to publish accepted contributions in this series as they appear. Many of the Chapters will be contributed by scholars abroad. At the end of the book, following the index, will be found a draft outline of the contents of the History. An asterisk marks those titles which are already published.

Peasants, Plantations and Rural Communities in the Caribbean

Cross, Malcolm & Arnaud Marks (Ed.): Peasants, plantations and rural communities in the Caribbean Guildford: University of Surrey and Leiden: Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, 1979.

From the Preface and Acknowledgments:

Eight of the ten papers in this book were originally prepared for the Third Caribbean Colloquium organized by the Universities of Surrey and Sussex in cooperation with the Department of Caribbean Studies of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. The title for the book also comes from that meeting, which took place in Leiden in December, 1977.


Papers:
Gad J. Heuman - "The struggle for the settler vote: politics and the franchise in post-emancipation Jamaica"; David Nicholls - "Rural protest and peasant revolt in Haiti; David Harrison - "The changing fortunes of a Trinidad peasantry"; Jean Besson - "Symbolic aspects of land in the Caribbean: The tenure and transmission of land rights among Caribbean peasantry"; Wout van den Bor - "Peasantry in isolation: the agrarian development of St. Eustatius and Saba"; David Lowenthal & Colin Clarke - "Common lands, common aims: the distinctive Barbudan community"; Eric Hanley - "Mechanised rice cultivation: the experience of an East Indian community in Guyana"; Henk Luning & Prakash Sital - "The economic transformation of small holder rice farming in Surinam"; Michael Allen - "Sugar and survival: the retention of economic power by white elites in Barbados and Martinique"; Jan van Huis - "Marketing problems and agricultural extension in Nickerie (Surinam): a stimulant to an alternative strategy"

Some Aspects of Jamaica's Politics 1918 - 1938

Carnegie, James, Some Aspects of Jamaica's Politics 1918 - 1938, Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1973. (hardcover)

From the Preface, by Trevor Munroe:
1918 - 1938, the period examined by Carnegie's book, is of considerable interest to students both of modern Jamaican politics and of the development of our people's struggle against colonialism. It was perhaps the last time that different wings of the local ruling class fought openly among themselves on political and economic questions such as, for example, whether the banana industry should be dominated primarily by national capitalism or American imperialism. It was the period too when the leaders of the emergent black middle class thoroughly wedded themselves to the precepts and practices of British parliamentarism in the Crown Colony Legislature and the Parochial Boards of the day. Most importantly, these were the years that the anti-colonial struggle, gradually at first, then in a revolutionary outburst, changed its character and moved into a new stage. ...

Huasipungo

Icaza, Jorge, Huasipungo [Colección Literatura Latinoamericana], Cuba: Casa de las Américas, s.f.

Un clásico.



Ver además Huasipungo.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Pirate Port: The story of the sunken city of Port Royal

Marx, Robert F., Pirate Port: The story of the sunken city of Port Royal, Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. [two copies]

Extract from "About the author":
Climaxing a lifetime of adventure with the history-making excavation of the sunken city of Port Royal, Robert F. Marx brings unique gifts to his job of Underwater Archaeologist for the Government of Jamaica.

La Universidad de Caracas en los años de Bolívar 1783-1830

Leal, Ildefonso, La Universidad de Caracas en los años de Bolívar 1783-1830, Tomos I & II, Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1983. [Dos copias de Vols. I & II]

Del Proemio de Carlos A. Moros Ghersi:
Esta obra La Universidad de Caracas en los años de Bolívar, forma parte del homenaje que rendimos al Libertador en la conmemoración del Bicentenario de su Nacimiento. Contiene las Actas del Claustro Universitario de 1783 a 1830, todo el período que abarca la vida del Libertador.


Central University of Venezuela

Brazil: An Interpretation

Freyre, Gilberto, Brazil: An Interpretation, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. [Hardcover]

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The Journal of Negro History review

Cited: American Catholic Sociological Review; Dec., 1945, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p260-261, 2p.

Brazil: The Land and People

Poppino, Rollie E., Brazil: The Land and People, New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. Paperback

International Journal review


Extract from the author's foreword:
Brazil: The Land and People reviews the evolution of the society and economy of Portuguese America since 1500. Approximately one half of the volume is devoted to the colonial period, with emphasis on trends of continuing importance and on developments that helped to shape the Brazilian mentality. The discussion of the national period focuses on the decades since about 1870. The first chapter describes the physical and cultural regions of the half-continent. Subsequent chapters deal with patterns of exploration and settlement, the successive cycles of the plantation and mining economies, the Africans and Europeans who peopled the land, the introduction and development of manufacturing industries, and the impact of the industrial economy on the number, distribution, and aspirations of the Brazilian people. A political chronology and statistical tables are provided for reference. The annotated bibliography is designed as a guide to further study.

Relecciones Sobre Los Indios Y El Derecho De Guerra

De Vitoria, Francisco, Relecciones sobre los Indios y el derecho de guerra, Colección Austral, (Traducción y prólogo de Armando D. Pirotto), Buenos Aires: Editora Espasa-Calpe Argentina, 1946. Paperback (condition: very fragile)

De Wikipedia:
Francisco de Vitoria O.P. (Burgos o Vitoria, España; 1483/1486 - Salamanca, España; 12 de agosto de 1546) fue un fraile dominico español. La fecha y el lugar de nacimiento son discutidos por diversas fuentes. (...) La dignidad y los problemas morales de la condición humana fue el eje en torno al que se desarrolló su obra. Fue especialmente influyente por sus aportaciones jurídicas, aunque también tuvieron gran repercusión sus estudios sobre teología y sobre aspectos morales de la economía. No escribió personalmente todas sus obras, sino que nos han llegado recogidas por sus alumnos o por secretarios a partir de sus lecciones y relecciones (repeticiones que resumían al final del curso las lecciones del año). Sus enseñanzas y métodos pedagógicos dieron su fruto en forma de numerosos teólogos, juristas y universitarios a los que bien enseñó directamente o bien se vieron influidos por sus teorías (Melchor Cano, Domingo Báñez, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez, etc), formando la llamada Escuela de Salamanca.


English Wikipedia

Mexico Before The World

Hammond Murray, Robert (translator and editor), Mexico Before The World: Public Documents and Addresses of Plutarco Elias Calles, New York: The Academy Press, 1927. Paperback, [Condition: very fragile]

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From the book's Foreword:
This compilation of a portion of the public documents and addresses of President Calles has been made with the object of providing an adequate and a convenient reference source for the benefit of those who seek authoritative information upon the man and his work and upon topics relevant to the present state of governmental, social, economic and kindred conditions in Mexico. It constitutes a presentation and a record of the official and personal aspirations of the President and also of the government and the masses of Mexico upon national necessities and problems, and especially in matters which concern Mexico's international relations. In this book answers will be found to virtually all of the questions upon which illumination may be desired by persons who are interested in knowing what is being done in Mexico and why, and in the development of President Calles programme of reform and reconstruction. New York, December, 1927.


The following was written by the Argentine author José Ingenieros, after visiting Mexico, in 1925:
President Plutarco Elias Calles, who at present is directing the destinies of the Mexican people, is an exceptional states man, a notable personality in every way, a man worthy of the admiration of cultivated intellects Educated in modern socialistic ideas and conscious of the destinies of his country, General Calles is establishing a government of reparation and justice and leading Mexico along proper lines in the direction of social re forms. Hence he is supported by millions of workmen and tillers of the soil who rep resent the vital forces of the country. Few elements in Mexico are in opposition to his great and fruitful programme of national reconstruction, which should serve as an example to all the nations of America.


Wikipedia - English & Español

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

El Comercio de los Mayas Antiguos

Cardós de Mendez, Amalia, El comercio de los mayas antiguos, Mexico, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sociedad de Alumnos, 1959.

Del Prólogo:
El móvil primario en la vida del hombre es la satisfacción de sus necesidades elementales. De allí la importancia de estudiar, primero, los medios de que se vale para la transformación de los elementos naturales que tiene en su habitat en productos utilitarios o de consumo, y segundo, el intercambio que desarrolla con otros grupos que poseen los artículos o materias primas que le hacen falta. El presente estudio, aunque no pretende ser exhaustivo del tema, ha tratado de presentar un cuadro general y claro de la segunda parte señalada anteriormente, es decir, del intercambio o actividad comercial desarrollada por un grupo humano, el Maya, que forjara una de las culturas más brillantes de América.


ENAH

Mexico: The Struggle for Modernity

Cumberland, Charles C. Mexico: The Struggle for Modernity, London: Oxford University Press, 1968. [paperback]

From the author's preface:
Between 1940 and 1960, phenomenal change took place in Mexico, but it came only after an earlier revolution remarkable as much for its violence as for its program. The costs of that conflagration - in lives, in property, in trauma - cannot be calculated, nor can the stimuli for the destruction be fixed with precision. But revolutions of such ferocity are spawned by deep seated ills, not in passing fancies. This book is an attempt to clarify and to explain the social and economic issues which gave the Mexican Revolution such a distinctive stamp, and to account for the direction and the nature of the change. It is an attempt to view nearly half a millennium of Mexican history through the eyes of those who suffered from inequality and who finally exploded with incredible violence.


Hispanic American Historical Review

Mexico: Revolution to Evolution, 1940-1960

Cline, Howard F., Mexico: Revolution to Evolution, 1940-1960, New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.

Obituary
Journal of Economic History review

Hispanic American Historical Review
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science January 1963 345: 168

Is the Mexican Revolution Dead?

Ross, Stanley R., Editor, Is the Mexican Revolution Dead?, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. (paperback)

Hispanic American Historical Review

Extract about Stanley R. Ross:

Stanley Ross's research took him through the full sweep of Mexico's modern history, from that nation's late nineteenth century search for modernization and nationhood through the Revolution of 1910 to the consolidation of the revolution by the one-party state. Perhaps Ross's greatest contribution to Mexican historiography is his political biography entitled Francisco I. Madero, Apostle of Mexican Democracy... Following the publication of the book on Madero, Stanley Ross focused his scholarship on collective historiography. ... Ross's most influential collaboration across borders has to be his edited volume called Is the Mexican Revolution Dead? (first published in 1966 by Alfred A. Knopf). This book ultimately was published in two English language editions, two Spanish editions, and in a Japanese translation. It became one of the best-selling "Borzoi Books on Latin America" issued by Knopf. Ross's edited volume achieved widespread readership as an assigned text in many undergraduate courses on Mexican history and politics, and the United States Information Service distributed many copies of the Spanish version of the book from U.S. embassies throughout Latin America. ... The book is remarkable for bringing together the opinions of some of the most successful politicians and intellectuals of contemporary Mexico. Among the politicians were ex-presidents Miguel Alemán, Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, and Luis Echeverría; party leader Jesús Reyes Heroles; revolutionary intellectuals Luis Cabrera, Jesús Silva Herzog, Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, and Heriberto Jara; and labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano. Some of Mexico's greatest scholars also participated. They include Daniel Cosío Villegas, Leopoldo Zea, Moisés González Navarro, and Pablo González Casanova. North American scholarship was represented by such pioneer "Mexicanists" as Frank Brandenberg, Frank Tannenbaum, and Howard F. Cline.

Some reviewers scoffed at this edited volume for serving as the official party's view of the Mexican Revolution, which held that the Partido Revolución Institucionalista (PRI) had properly carried out the revolutionary ideals of social reforms and national economic development. However, even Ross himself demurred from this view, offering in his introduction his own viewpoint that the PRI-dominated government of the 1960s had ended the reforms in the interests of political control and the national bourgeoisie. Whatever the shortcomings of this influential volume, it did collect the varying and competing opinions of prominent Mexicans and North Americans into one volume. Ross had accomplished a major feat of cross-border collaboration, from which a whole generation of students and scholars benefited. It would not be going too far afield to assert that this was one of the seminal volumes in precipitating what would eventually become a high tide of revisionist critique, in which the PRI, for all its undoubted accomplishments, would be exposed increasingly for its strong-arm political tactics, its pervasive venality, and its artistry in constructing a self-serving version of Mexican history.

West Indian Folk-tales

Sherlock, Philip, West Indian Folk-tales retold by Philip Sherlock, illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe, Oxford: Oxford University Press in Oxford, 1966.

Author's note:
The true tiger is not found in West Africa. It is likely, as the artist has indicated, that the tiger of the Anansi stories is a leopard. In her introduction to Walter Jeckyll's Jamaican Song and Story, Alice Werner wrote in 1907: 'All over South Africa, leopards are called "tigers" by Dutch, English, and Germans, just as hyenas are called "wolves" , and bustards "peacocks" ... "Tiger" is used in the same sense in German Kamerun, and probably elsewhere in West Africa.'

Mirror, Mirror; Identity, Race, and Protest in Jamaica

Nettleford, Rex, Mirror, Mirror; Identity, Race, and Protest in Jamaica, 1st ed., Kingston (Jamaica): W. Collins and Sangster, 1970, 256 p. 22 cm.

From the author's preface:

The decade of the nineteen sixties will probably be in time recorded as one of the most troublous periods of Jamaica's contemporary history. The essays in this volume are some reflections on the times. They are not exhaustive of the anxiety, uncertainties or self-doubt that mark the decade, but they seek to record and interpret certain important aspects of the young nation's major dilemma mirrored in the trinity of identity, race and protest.


Professor Rex Nettleford

obituary:
Professor Rex Nettleford was an academic, writer, dancer, manager, orator, mentor, cultural activist, historian and social and political critic. Sometimes described as the “quintessential Caribbean man”, his contribution to the academic, cultural and political development of his native Jamaica and the Caribbean region was considerable. He was Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder and artistic director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. He was seen also as the voice of ordinary people, particularly the poor. His own life showed how far a boy from rural Jamaica could go with determination, resilience and “smadification” — a term used of an outsider with character who is accepted socially.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Personas sobre cosas

Padín, José, Personas sobre cosas, Biblioteca de Autores Puertorriqueños, San Juan, 1951.

De la Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico:
Educador, servidor público y ensayista. Luego de una larga carrera como maestro y empleado del Departamento de Instrucción Pública fue nombrado comisionado de instrucción, puesto que ocupó de 1930 a 1937. Durante su incumbencia, implementó una política lingüístico-educativa la cual consistía en emplear el español como lengua de enseñanza durante los primeros ocho grados de escuela elemental e incorporar el inglés como una asignatura especial.

Los puertorriqueños y la Biblia

Shope, John W., Los puertorriqueños y la Biblia, Informe preliminar del estudio de una muestra estratificada de la población para el Instituto Penzotti, la Sociedad Bíblica Americana y el Concilio Evangélico de Puerto Rico, Centro para la Investigación de la Evolución Cultural, Universidad Interamericana, San German, Puerto Rico, 1962.

Propósito del estudio (pag. 18)
El propósito principal se funda en las necesidades de la Sociedad Bíblica Americana. Primeramente, la dirección de la Sociedad Bíblica Americana de Puerto Rico desea información de hecho sobre la cual basar un nuevo programa para distribuir las Escrituras en Puerto Rico. Un segundo propósito radica en el deseo de la Sociedad de descubrir información que pueda contribuir al desarrollo de sus programas en otras islas y áreas del Caribe. El tercero es un deseo similar para allegar datos y relaciones que puedan contribuir a un programa más efectivo en todos o algunos países de América Latina

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Peace by Revolution: An Interpretation of Mexico

Tannenbaum, Frank, Peace by Revolution: An Interpretation of Mexico, drawings by Miguel Covarrubias, New York: Columbia University Press, 1933.

From the Pittsburgh Press:
Material was gleaned from an extensive survey of Mexican rural education, undertaken at the request of the Mexican government and completed in 1931; years spent as a newspaper correspondent, and a thorough knowledge of Mexican social, economic and governmental affairs.

Frank Tannenbaum and the Mexican Revolution, by Charles Hale
Frank Tannenbaum, The Making of a Mexicanist

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

Humboldt, Alexander, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (Translator), Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, Vol. I (in 3 volumes): During the Years 1799-1804, London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.

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Aimé Bonpland

The Island of Cuba

Humboldt, Alexander, The Island of Cuba, translated from the Spanish with notes and a preliminary essay by J.S. Thrasher, New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1856. [The hardcover is poorly preserved but all the pages in the interior are exceptionally intact]

From Wikipedia:
Humboldt is considered to be the "second discoverer of Cuba" due to all the scientific and social research he conducted on this Spanish colony. During an initial three-month stay at Havana, his first tasks were to properly survey that city and the nearby towns of Guanabacoa, Regla and Bejucal. He befriended Cuban landowner and thinker Francisco Arrango y Parreño; together they visited the Guines area in south Havana, the valleys of Matanzas Province, and the Valley of the Sugar Mills in Trinidad. Those three areas were, at the time, the first frontier of sugar production in the island. During those trips, Humboldt collected statistical information on Cuba's population, production, technology and trade, and with Arrango, made suggestions for enhancing them. He predicted that the agricultural and commercial potential of Cuba was huge and could be vastly improved with proper leadership in the future. After traveling to America, Humboldt returned to Cuba for a second, shorter stay in April 1804. During this time he socialized with his scientific and landowner friends, conducted mineralogical surveys and finished his vast collection of the island's flora and fauna.


Review

Propaganda y Ataque

Gonzalez Prada, Manuel, Propaganda y Ataque, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Iman, 1939. [portada de José Planas] (condicion del libro: paupérrimo)

Manuel González Prada (1844-1918) fue un hombre de grandes rechazos. Nacido en la aristocracia limeña, se apartó de ella para acercarse al obrero. Fue socio del Ateneo de Lima (el Club Literario de Ricardo Palma), pero poco a poco fue desilusionándose con la tradición literaria que predominaba allí. Participó en la fundación del Círculo literario, vehículo para proponer una literatura basada en la ciencia y orientada así hacia el futuro. Se alejó del partido Civilista para fundar con sus amigos del Círculo un partido radical, la Unión Nacional. Este partido lo nombró candidato presidencial, pero él negó su propio caudillaje, huyendo a Europa. En sus ensayos, divulgó las ideas positivistas de Auguste Comte. Sin embargo, terminó convirtiéndose en partidario del anarquismo, el elemento social más criticado por el filósofo francés.


De la "Advertencia":
Propaganda y ataque obedece al plan de reunir una serie de escritos de índole semejante, no recopilados aún en volumen. Veintiocho artículos -ocho inéditos y veinte publicados- forman el libro: trece artículos religiosos en la primera parte; quince artículos políticos en la segunda. Los primeros son de carácter general y divulgación doctrinaria; los segundos, casi todos de interés local y circunscritos, en su mayoría, a un ciclo breve de la historia política peruana. Circunstancias ligadas con la vida misma del autor explican que todos los artículos, excepto cuatro, correspondan a la época 1898-1903, años marcadamente beligerantes en la existencia de González Prada.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Political Economy of International Oil and the Underdeveloped Countries

Tanzer, Michael, The Political Economy of International Oil and the Underdeveloped Countries, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.

Review
Review

As a rather interesting footnote, I found a cutout from The San Juan Star which my father had placed in the book. The article, dated May 3, 1969 was by Harold Lidin:

Oil exploration in the Dominican Republic has boomed with the start of off-shore research along the northeast coast, and the beginning of intensive drilling in the republics arid southwest. The operations involve two large US firms and a group of Puerto Rican investors. The offshore effort features the use by the Tenneco Oil Co. of the survey ship "Artic Seal" to test the oil bearing potential of a submarine shelf in the Bay of Samana area.


Regarding the newspaper article, see also this and this.

Class, Race and Political Behaviour in Urban Jamaica

Stone, Carl, Class, Race and Political Behaviour in Urban Jamaica, Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1973.

From Martin Henry (contributor to the June 21, 2009 edition of the Gleaner):
Stone sensibly classified classes in the Jamaican political economy by distinctions of both income and non-material status. In 'Class, State, and Democracy in Jamaica' and an earlier paper on 'Class, Race, and Political Behaviour in Urban Jamaica', he identified four broad socio-economic categories in Jamaican social structure:

1. An upper class of capitalists (large-scale business owners and planters).

2. An upper-middle class, made up of professionals, owners of medium-size businesses, college-level educators, corporate managers, senior bureaucrats in the public sector, and leaders of voluntary associations.

3. A lower-middle class, consisting of small-scale business owners, primary and secondary-school teachers, white-collar workers (in private business, civil administration, and parastatal organisations), skilled workers, and owners of medium-size farms.

4. A lower class of small peasants, agricultural workers, labourers (unskilled and semi-skilled), and the substantial number of rural and urban unemployed (Stone, 1973).

Stone's work delineates a complicated link between class and party loyalty.


Review

See also JSTOR and Retrospective in Commemoration of Carl Stone: Jamaican Pioneer of Political Culture.

Norman Manley: A Biography

Sherlock, Sir Philip Manderson, Norman Manley: A Biography, London: MacMillan London Ltd., 1980. Signed by author to my parents in Christmas 1980.

About the author:
Perhaps his genius for relating to people lay in his deep acceptance of culture and cultural values as being synonymous with creativity, on the one hand, and on the other, as an indispensable factor in assessing the state of development of a nation. It was a natural development for him to become a virtual patron of the arts. Few are aware or will recall that Philip Manderson Sherlock was the promoter of the popular comedy team of the 1930s - Slim and Slam - or that he was a renowned teller of Anancy stories. He was a poet of more than passing repute, a researcher into and a conservator of folk culture. In between all these activities, Philip Sherlock found the time to write several books ranging from readers for young children to historical works for university students; and of course, there was his biography of the great Jamaican leader Norman Washington Manley.

Viaje a la America Meridional

De La Condamine, Carlos Maria, Viaje a la America Meridional, Buenos Aires: Espasa Calpe, 1942. carpeta blanda

CHARLES MARÍA DE LA CONDAMINE
CIENTIFICO Y NATURALISTA.- Nació en París el 28 de Enero de 1701 en el seno de una familia de la nobleza media y desde sus primeros años lo pusieron sus padres a estudiar con los jesuitas la Física y las Matemáticas hasta llegar a ser uno de los más consumados geómetras de Francia, por cuya razón lo eligió la Academia Real de Ciencias por uno de sus individuos de número en 1730.

También sabía Astronomía, Geodesia y Geografía y durante un corto tiempo que sirvió en el ejército viajó por las costas del norte del África, visitando las zonas de berbería y del levante como miembro del escuadrón Duguay-Trouin.

En 1735 la Academia lo designó miembro de la Expedición conformada para medir la longitud exacta de un arco de meridiano en el Ecuador y averiguar la verdadera figura de la tierra.


ENGLISH, Wikipedia:
La Condamine became a member of the expedition that was sent to Peru in 1735 to determine the length of a degree of the meridian in the neighborhood of the equator; this work laid the basis for the determination of the length of the meter. The group was led by Louis Godin and included Pierre Bouguer, Antonio de Ulloa, and Jorge Juan y Santacilia. His associations with his principals were unhappy; the expedition was beset by many difficulties, and finally La Condamine split from the rest and made his way to Quito, Ecuador separately, becoming the first Westerner to encounter rubber in the process.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

The uncertain alliance: the Catholic Church and labor in Latin America

Floridi, Alexis Ulysses, & Stiefbold, Annette E., The uncertain alliance: the Catholic Church and labor in Latin America, Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami Coral Gables, Fla., 1973.

Review in EBSCOhost Research Databases

Review in the Journal of Church and State

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Sugar and Slaves

Dunn, Richard S., Sugar and Slaves; the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713, Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va.: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Richard Slator Dunn BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

From the Foreword of the 2000 edition by Gary B. Nash:
Sugar and Slaves is a brilliant depiction of the outlaw English planters who came to the Caribbean in the early seventeenth century. Because they were the first English colonizers to build an economy on African slave labor, their history provides a comparative perspective on the origins of slavery in England's mainland colonies. Writing at the beginning of the social history tectonic plate shift of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Dunn takes the reader inside the tropical island plantation world where displaced Africans and English colonists built a tobacco and sugar economy that mocked all that the English believed their culture stood for. The book begins in 1624, when the English gained their Caribbean foothold on the tiny island of St. Christopher. From that lonely outpost emerged a "cohesive and potent master class" of tobacco and sugar planters that spread to Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat, Antigua, and Jamaica. The book vividly portrays how the English planters created a living hell in a Caribbean Garden of Eden and how they accommodated themselves to the human wreckage involved in turning the islands into highly successful sugar-producing colonies.

Del Orinoco al Amazonas

Humboldt, Alexander Von, Del Orinoco Al Amazonas: Viaje A Las Regiones Equinocciales Del Nuevo Continente, Editorial: Labor, 1967. [carpeta blanda]

Este libro narra la parte más interesante del viaje que Humboldt realizaó entre 1799 y 1804: el inicio en España y la expedición al Orinoco y al Amazonas, donde se adentró en lugares que hasta entonces no había visitado un europeo. Allí llevó a cabo un trabajo científico que todavía hoy sigue causando asombro.


wikipedia:
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Barón de Humboldt (Berlín, Alemania, 14 de septiembre de 1769 - 6 de mayo de 1859), conocido en español como Alejandro de Humboldt, fue un geógrafo, naturalista y explorador prusiano, hermano menor del lingüista y ministro Wilhelm von Humboldt. Es considerado el "Padre de la Geografía Moderna Universal". Fue un naturalista de una polivalencia extraordinaria, que no volvió a repetirse tras su desaparición. Los viajes de exploración le llevaron de Europa a América del Sur, parte del actual territorio de México, EE.UU., Canarias y a Asia Central. Se especializó en diversas áreas de la ciencia como la etnografía, antropología, física, zoología, ornitología, climatología, oceanografía, astronomía, geografía, geología, mineralogía, botánica, vulcanología y el humanismo.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Froudacity: West Indian Fables Explained

Thomas, J. J., Froudacity: West Indian Fables Explained, (with introduction by C.L.R. James and biographical note by Donald Wood), London: New Beacon Books, Ltd., 1969.

From the introduction by CLR James:
The origin of this publication is typical of the relation between imperialism and its colonial dependencies. Imperialism maintains a constant attack upon and a prevailing depreciation of the people it rules (or has ruled). The attack is not always malicious. Quite often it is worse, a genuine sense of outraged superiority stimulating political ignorance and myopia and not averse to plain lying. Froudacity is a reply to an imperialist attack, an attack ignorant and myopic as usual, but this time malign and motivated. The attack was a sitting duck for a counter-blow.


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See also The English in the West Indies, by James Anthony Froude.

Friday, February 26, 2010

West-India policy under the Restoration

Thornton, A. P., West-India policy under the Restoration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.

From the book jacket:
The Restoration period was the heyday of the West-India sugar-economy. This book, based throughout on original sources, examines the relations between the English Crown and its most valuable possessions.


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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Machado de Assis, romancista

Correia Pacheco, Armando, [seleção, prefácio e notas], Machado de Assis, romancista, Washington: União Pan-Americana, [1954].

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Acclimatization in the Andes

Monge, Carlos, Acclimatization in the Andes: Historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man,Translated by Donald F. Brown. With a foreword by Isaiah Bowman; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press,, 1948.. 8vo; xix, 130 pp. Second edition.

It is the author's thesis that life at high altitudes deserves a new biology concerned with beings adapted to reduced atmospheric oxygen tension. This field of biology illustrates the principle that the reactions of living organisms are related to the duration as well as to the intensity of imposed stresses. There is every extreme in response ranging from the vomiting newcomer to the hard-working, healthy resident.

O mundo que o portugues criou

Freyre, Gilberto, O mundo que o portugues criou: aspectos as relacoes sociaes e de cultura do Brasil com Portugal e as colonias portuguesas: sociaes, pref. de Antonio Sergio, Rio de Janeiro : Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1940; 164p. [Nota: livro em muito mal estado]

Gilberto de Mello Freyre (Recife, 15 de março de 1900 — Recife, 18 de julho de 1987) foi um sociólogo, antropólogo,escritor e pintor brasileiro, considerado como um dos grandes nomes da história do Brasil.


Fundação Gilberto Freyre

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A Voyage to the Eastern part of Terra Firma, or the Spanish Main

Depons, François Joseph, A Voyage to the Eastern part of Terra Firma, or the Spanish Main, in South-America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804, Containing a description of the territory under the jurisdiction of the captain general of Caraccas, composed of the provinces of Venezuela, Maracaibo, Varinas, Spanish Guiana, Cumana, and the island of Margaretta; and embracing every thing relative to the discovery, conquest, topography, legislation, commerce, finance, inhabitants and productions of the provinces, together with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards, and the savage as well as civilized Indians, 3 Volumes, Translated by an American gentleman, New York: I. Riley and Co., 1806 [all three volumes are in very fragile condition]

From rare, antiquarian, used & out-of-print books on travel in Central America, Caribbean & West Indies:
First edition in English, 8vo [22 x 13 cm]; 3 volumes, xxxii, 248, [vi]; 362, [viii]; 288 pp, large folding engraved map of eastern South America, contemporary tree calf, recased with calf spines and new endpapers, title lettering on paper spine labels, edgewear, some light foxing, bookplate of Bernhard Schaefer on endpapers, signature on vol III title, solid very good set.

The author, an agent of the French government at Caracas, described the history, conquest, topography, political and commercial life, customs & manners of the Spanish and Indians, finance, in the various provinces in the Caribbean under control of the Captain-General of Caracas including Venezuela, Maracaibo, Spanish Guiana, Cumana and the Isle of Margaretta. First published in Paris in the same year, this translation was by Washington Irving and was his first book, published when he was 23. BAL 10096. Sabin19642. Humphreys 564 refers to the two volume 1807 edition published in London. Hill p. 238: 'This is an important account of Venezuela giving a description of the country and people and also accounts of growth and production of cocoa, indigo, sugar, cotton, coffee, and tabacco'. The London edition was entitled, 'Travels in South America, During the Years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804'. Field 421: 'Beside his account of the slaughter and destruction of Indians during the conquest of their nations, the author gives Portrait of the Indians before the arrival of the Europeans'. There is much on the native peoples. Hand D132: 'Important early documentation'.

US$950. bookID # 9093


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El Lazarillo by Concolorcorvo

Kline, Walter D. (translator), El Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers between Buenos Aires and Lima, 1773 by Concolorcorvo, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.

From the book jacket:
Available here in its first English translation, El Lazarillo de Ciegos Caminantes relates the humorous experiences and encounters of an inspector of the postal routes between Buenos Aires and Lima during the late eighteenth century. Called "one of the liveliest narratives of the Colonial period," El Lazarillo contains many elements of the picaresque genre, while numerous passages presage the regionalism of nineteenth-century writers.


From the Foreword by Irving A. Leonard:
The literary products of the former possessions of Spain in the New World far exceeded in quantity and quality those of the Atlantic colonies of England in North America. No British historian of English letters is likely to include any prose or versified work composed in the former American dependencies as a significant - much less classic - contribution to the literature of the mother country. Chroniclers of Castilian literary expression, on the other hand, whether Spanish or Spanish American, are pleased and even proud to recognize many works created in the former overseas realms of Spain as worthy elements of the great patrimony of Spanish genius.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Colombia Traveler

Rodman, Selden, The Colombia Traveler: A Complete History and Guide, New York: Hawthorn Books Inc Publishers, 1971. {Jacket design by Edgar Blakeney}

The Hummingbird and the Hawk

Padden, R. C., The Hummingbird and the Hawk: Conquest and Sovereignty in the Valley of Mexico, 1503-1541, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1967.

From the book jacket:
In this vivid account of the complex phenomena of cultural change as they occurred in the Valley of Mexico in the first half of the sixteenth century, Mr. Padden discovers two distinct processes of change functioning simultaneously throughout the period. The first process was governed by evolutionary forces that had shaped Aztec society since formation of the Triple alliance and whose influence survived the Spanish conquest and continued well into the post-conquest period. The second and more apparent process of change was governed by the revolutionary imposition of Spanish sovereignty.


From the author's preface:
Although nearly one third of this book is concerned with pre-conquest Mexico, it does not pretend to be a definitive or exhaustive treatment of Aztec society. It merely attempts to follow the sometimes elusive evolution of Aztec sovereignty from its origins to its demise and examines only those cultural traits and social phenomena that were related to it.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Guia y Mapas para Cinco Excursiones por Cartagena

Bustamante del Valle, Luis, Guía y mapas para cinco excursiones por Cartagena, Cartagena: Editora Bolivar Ltda., Primera Edición agosto de 1978.

Bibliografía sobre Ocupación Territorial e Historia Urbana en Colombia

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Cayenne, Déportés et bagnards

Devèze, Michel, Cayenne, Déportés et bagnards, présentés par Michel Devèze, Julliard, Paris 1965, 287 p.

Cayenne est une ville martyre par le fâcheux renom que lui ont valu d'abord de malheureux essais de colonisation au XVIIIe siècle, puis les déportations des victimes politiques de divers régimes républicains et impériaux, enfin le bagne, presque centenaire, avec ses turpitudes. Pourtant, tous seux qui ont connu Cayenne et la Guyane, s'ils ont réussi à négliger les constructions humaines ont été séduits par la grandeur de cette terre équatoriale, de cette nature violente et primitive.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Making of Modern Mexico

Brandenburg, Frank R., The Making of Modern Mexico, Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1964.

From the Introduction by Frank Tannenbaum:
Dr. Brandenburg has written an interesting and broadly based book that seeks to explain how an undeveloped nation with a troubled and revolution-riddled history moved into the modern world. The changeover in the years that span 1910 to 1964, the period with which the author is primarily concerned, is dramatic. The Mexican story as told here suggests what a revolution can and can not do, and at what costs. The price in Mexico was high. The revolution took a million lives. It destroyed a ruling society; the "upper classes," from which the governors, generals, diplomats, landowners, intellectuals were drawn, were impoverished, expropriated, exiled or killed. The government, the constitutional system, the army the courts, the landholding system, peonage, and many things besides were swept away by the revolutionary tide. The people who came to replace those who were driven out were newcomers.

Review (Southern Economic Association)

Review (Academy of American Franciscan History)

Review (Western Political Quarterly

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Los Mayas Antiguos

Lizardi Ramos, César, Editor, Los mayas antiguos, monografías de arqueología, etnografía y lingüística mayas publicadas con motivo del centenario de la exploración de Yucatán por John L. Stephens y Frederick Catherwood in los años 1841-42, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1941.

John Lloyd Stephens (28 de noviembre de 1805–13 de octubre de 1852) fue un explorador, escritor y diplomático estadounidense. Stephens fue una figura central en la investigación de la civilización maya, y en la planeación del ferrocarril de Panamá.


Frederick Catherwood explorador, dibujante, arquitecto y fotógrafo inglés, nacido el 27 de febrero de 1799 y muerto el 20 de septiembre de 1854, famoso por sus exploraciones de las ruinas de la civilización Maya, en compañía del escritor estadounidense John Lloyd Stephens.


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Indian Notices

Hilhouse, William, Indian Notices: or sketches of the habits, characters, languages, superstitions, soil and climate of the several nations; with remarks on their capacity for colonization, present government and suggestions for future improvement and civilization; also the icthyology of the fresh waters of th interior, Georgetown: National Commission for Research Materials on Guyana, 1978.

From the Introduction by M. N. Menezes, RSM, Ph.D.:
The author of Indian Notices, William Hilhouse, was one of the most versatile, interesting, and controversial figures in the early history of British Guiana. He arrived in British Guiana about 1815 (LH 1 July 1831) and for twenty five years until his death in May 1840 he was well known to the Colonial Office, the local legislature, and the press through his voluminous writings on a variety of subjects. Hilhouse described himself ... as "a colonist of Demerara, by necessity a permanent resident" (p. 130) and later as "a field engineer and practical agriculturist" (LRGS, 30 July 1839). He was an ex-member of the Staff Corps, a good land surveyor, and at one time an attorney of a small estate on the west coast of Demerara.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Planeamiento y organización de las actividades gubernamentales

Silva, Benedicto*, Planeamiento y organización de las actividades gubernamentales, Puerto Rico: Ediciones de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (1903-1953)

*Organizador de la Escuela de Servicio Público de Brasil

Conquistador: The Life of Don Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

Clissold, Stephen, Conquistador: The Life of Don Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, London: Derek Verschoyle, 1954, 205 pgs. : ill.

From the note on illustrations:
The illustrations are from engravings by Theodore de Bry and drawings by Poma de Ayala and represent contrasting European and Indian views of Spanish rule in the Indies.

Social Change and Images of the Future

Mau, James A., Social Change and Images of the Future: A Study of Progress in Jamaica, Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., Inc., 1968.

From the acknowledgements:
The primary financial support for this research came from the Social Science Research Council which granted me a pre-doctoral fellowship during the years 1961-63; and from the West Indies Studies Program of the University of California, Los Angeles which was financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and directed by Wendell Bell.


Review by Robin Mackenzie
Also reviewed by Basil Ince for Caribbean Studies [PDF], scroll down to pg. 7 : Vol. 9 # 4, January 1970.

Monday, February 8, 2010

La isla de Puerto Rico: estudio histórico y geográfico

Sardá, Agustín, La isla de Puerto Rico: estudio histórico y geográfico Madrid: Establecimiento Tipográfico de Evaristo Sánchez, 1889.

En lista del Catalogo de la Biblioteca Universitaria V Impresos Del Siglo XIX, Santiago de Compostela.

The Destruction of Brazilian slavery, 1850-1888

Conrad, Robert Edgar, The Destruction of Brazilian slavery, 1850-1888, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

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Review by Douglas A. Chalmers.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

La Iglesia en Puerto Rico en el Siglo XVIII

Campo Lacasa, Cristina, Notas generales sobre la historia eclesiástica de Puerto Rico en el siglo XVIII, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1963(?)

De la introducción:
En un principio iniciamos nuestro trabajo con el propósito de concretarnos al tema La Iglesia de Puerto Rico en la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. No obstante, el hecho de encontrar material más completo e interesante con respecto a la segunda mitad de la centuria, ha constituído la razón del cambio de titulación y así, una vez dada por finalizada nuestra labor, la exponemos bajo el título Notas generales sobre la historia eclesiástica de Puerto Rico en el siglo XVIII, estimando que ello responde mas justamente al contenido de la misma.

El Presente y el Futuro de la Realidad Económica Puertorriqueña

Paniagua Picazo, Antonio, El Presente y el Futuro de la Realidad Económica Puertorriqueña: Una interpretación de la realidad actual y un presagio de lo que ocurrirá en lo porvenir, San Juan: Editorial Betances, s.f.

Del autor al lector:
Este breve ensayo escrito el año de 1953, es una interpretación personal del fenómeno político y económico de la isla de Puerto Rico. Durante la década del 30 al 40, y mas tarde en el año 1948, señalamos en ensayos y artículos la necesidad de fomentar la industrialización en la isla, de aprovechar los recursos naturales, unido al logro de la soberanía política. La compilación de estos trabajos desperdigados en diarios como El Mundo y El Imparcial en una obra bajo el título de La realidad económica puertorriqueña, espera la bondad de una editorial, como la que se le ha dispensado a este modesto trabajo del autor, para su publicación.


Referencia al Noísmo o el Grupo No.

Nota personal: Obsequio del autor a mi padre (con firma y fecha 25 de octubre del 1964).

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Instrucciones para el Manejo de las Haciendas Jesuítas del Perú

Macera, Pablo, Instrucciones para el Manejo de las Haciendas Jesuítas del Perú, ss. XVII-XVIII, Nueva corónica, vol. 2, fasc. 2, Nueva corónica ;, v. 2, fasc. 2, Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Departamento de Historia, 1966. (fragile)

From the first chapter:
Los documentos consultados abarcan en su mayor parte el último medio siglo de la dominación española desde la expulsión de los jesuítas (1767) hasta la independencia criolla (1821-24) y contienen toda la información acumulada por la administración colonial y republicana sobre los bienes confiscados a la Compañía de Jesús: inventarios y tasaciones, actas de subasta, planos de haciendas, cuentas de jornales y gastos, bautismos de esclavos...


Good review by John Lynch
Personal note: to my father, signed by the author.

Highland Communities of Central Peru

Tschopik, Harry, Highland Communities of Central Peru: a Regional Survey, Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (Washington), 1947: 56 p. plates, maps. 26cm.

Words of Luis Eduardo Valcárcel Vizcarra, Peru's Minister of Public Education, taken from the Preface:
A people such as ours, which is becoming increasingly more conscious of its own cultural heritage, assumes a wary attitude toward outside influences, of course without going so far as to adopt such extreme conservatism as leads to an absurd rejection of all external contributions. In order that the discrimination which educators should exercise have a scientific foundation, it is not only advisable to have a satisfactory command of the modern cultural trends to be introduced, but also an increasingly clear knowledge of our own authentic social heritage, of the ways of life of our people throughout the country, of the functioning of political, juridical, economic, religious and other institutions, of the ways in which our people produce things of beauty together with those of utilitarian value, of how external factors influence the community and how the latter reacts, of the process of change in customs and the extent to which new methods and procedures are adopted, and of what is, in sum total, the cultural content analyzed in terms of its elements and seen from the point of view of its structure.

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Jamaican Leaders: Political Attitudes in a New Nation

Bell, Wendell, Jamaican Leaders: Political Attitudes in a New Nation , University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (1964).

From the author's preface:
This book constitutes a case study in the sociology of nationhood. It is about ... Jamaica ..., during the final stages of its transition from colonial dependence to full political independence, and it focuses on the exploration and discovery of the causes of nationalism, those factors that produce nationalist attitudes, that underlie a person's desire and drive for political independence, and those that in others result conversely in preferences for colonial status and opposition to the formation of the new independent nation-state.


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