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.

Project Gutenberg
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.