Available online.
See also The Rastafari Report: An Academic Betrayal? by Annie Paul.
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Report on the Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica (Reprint)
Available online.
See also The Rastafari Report: An Academic Betrayal? by Annie Paul.
McGill Studies in Caribbean Anthropology
Contents:
Introduction, by Frances Henry.
Village-Government Relationships in Trinidad, by Epeli Hauofa.
The Chinese in Trinidad, by Gerald Bentley and Frances Henry.
Drinking Patterns and Alcoholism in Trinidad, by Carole Yawney.
Adolescent Groups and Delinquency in Mackenzie, Guyana, by Marilyn Silverman.
Industrial Unrest in Mackenzie, Guyana, by Maurice St. Pierre.
The Origins of Porknocking in Guyana, by Douglas Smith.
The Rural Entrepreneur in St. Lucia, by Rochelle Romalis.
Selected Bibliography.
Metodología y Estudio de la Historia
De la portada del libro:
Los ensayos y estudios agrupados en el presente volumen responden a una preocupación básica y constante: procurar nuevas perspectivas metodológicas que permitan contribuir a la depuración de los estudios históricos. Se proponen también la revisión crítica de algunos conceptos generalmente manejados por la historiografía venezolana y se esboza la línea evolutiva de esos estudios con ánimo de precisar etapas y orientación generales. En fin, en Enseñanza de la historia, tercera parte de este volumen, se presentan observaciones y consideraciones que son el fruto de largos años de experiencia docente.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Los Creadores de la Diplomacia Venezolana
De la portada:
Armando Rojas, individuo de Número de la Academia Nacional de la Historia y del Centro de Historia del Departamento Vargas, así como Correspondiente de muchas otras instituciones trascendentes de América y Europa, ha sido Embajador de Venezuela en Nicaragua, Portugal, Uruguay y El Líbano, y ha representado a nuestro país en numerosas conferencias internacionales en varios continentes. Hizo sus estudios de Humanidades y Filosofía en Universidades de España, Bélgica, e Italia para doctorarse en filosofía y letras en la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
The Four Seasons Of Manuela: A Biography, The Love Story Of Manuela Saenz And Simon Bolivar
Available online HERE, and HERE.
From Wikipedia:
Doña Manuela Sáenz y Aizpuru (December 27, 1797 – November 23, 1856) was a revolutionary hero of South America who supported the revolutionary cause by gathering information, distributing leaflets, and protesting for women's rights. Manuela received the Order of the Sun…, honoring her services in the revolution. Sáenz married a wealthy English merchant in 1817 and became a socialite in Lima, Peru. This provided the setting for involvement in political and military affairs, and she became active in support of revolutionary efforts. Leaving her husband in 1822, she soon began an eight-year collaboration and intimate relationship with Simón Bolívar that lasted until his death in 1830. After she prevented an 1828 assassination attempt against him and facilitated his escape, Bolívar began to call her "Libertadora del libertador" ("liberator of the liberator"). Manuela's role within the revolution after her death generally was overlooked until the late twentieth century, presently she is recognized as a feminist symbol of the 19th century wars of independence.
My note:
Inside the book, my father had placed an old article (cut out) which appeared in the January 16, 1978, issue of the Venezuelan periodical ‘El Nacional’. It was about research undertaken by Ana Mercedes Pérez on the life of Manuela Sáenz.
Ten Keys to Latin America
Reviewed in Foreign Affairs.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1963.
Reviewed in Kirkus.
Mentioned in The Hispanic World, conducted by Robert G. Mead, Jr., published in Hispania © 1963.
From the title page:
An informed and searching analysis of the basic elements in Latin American history and character – essential reading for all who want to understand the crisis there today.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
A History of Venezuela
From the inner sleeve:
The first six chapters develop the history of Venezuela and her culture from the purely Indian times, through the Spanish conquest and colonization, through the revolution against Spanish rule and the subsequent troubled National Period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adequate maps and photographs will add to the reader’s understanding of what is still, to most English speakers, an unknown land peopled by unpronounceable names.
Guillermo Morón Montero (Carora, Venezuela, February 8, 1926) is a Venezuelan writer and historian. (...) On his return to Venezuela he began to write his General History of Venezuela. That same year of 1958 entered the National Academy of History. He was also director of the magazine Shell and worked as professor of geography, history and science at the National Pedagogical Institute of Caracas.2 From 1974 to 1985 he taught as professor of History of Venezuela at Simón Bolívar University. Morón also worked as a journalist in the magazine El amigo del hogar and published columns in newspapers El Impulso, El Nacional and El Heraldo. He was director of the National Academy of History of Venezuela between 1986 and 1995 and founder of the Departments of Research and Publications of that Academy where he promoted the publication of numerous works of Venezuelan history and the publication of a collection called El libro menor.
¿Interviene la CIA en Investigaciones Sociológicas que se realizan en Venezuela?
Índice:
Preliminar.
I. “Estrategias para el cambio social” y “El Proyecto Camelot”.
II. Acciones de espionaje sociológico.
III. La conveniencia de una investigación de lo sucedido y de lo que sucede.
Anexos 1, 2, & 3.
Rodolfo Quintero (Maracaibo, 4 de diciembre de 1903 - Caracas, 11 de noviembre de 1985), fue un político marxista, antropólogo, etnólogo, profesor universitario, escritor y dirigente sindical venezolano, miembro fundador y militante del Partido Comunista de Venezuela y director del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales de la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad Central de Venezuela que hoy en día lleva su nombre.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Boves: Aspectos Socioeconómicos de la Guerra de Independencia
José Tomás Boves y de la Iglesia…, también conocido como el León de los Llanos, el Urogallo, la Bestia a caballo o simplemente Taita, fue un militar español, comandante del Ejército Real de Barlovento (también llamada la Legión Infernal) y caudillo de los llaneros en el transcurso de la Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela durante la Segunda República (1813-1814). A lo largo de su breve pero notoria carrera militar, Boves se transformó en un auténtico caudillo popular. Valiéndose de los resentimientos sociales de las clases más bajas contra los abusos y explotación de que eran objeto por la aristocracia criolla desencadenó una feroz ofensiva contra los ejércitos independentistas y se convirtió en un auténtico peligro para la causa republicana de las élites venezolanas.
José Tomás Boves (Oviedo, Asturias, September 18, 1782 – Urica, Venezuela, December 5, 1814), royalist caudillo of the llanos during the Venezuelan War of Independence, particularly remembered for his use of brutality and atrocities against those who supported Venezuelan independence. Though nominally pro-Spanish, Boves showed little deference to any superior authority and independently carried out his own military campaign and political agenda.
La Cultura y el Movimiento de Liberación Nacional en América Latina
Extracto introductorio de las conferencias:
Las primeras dos conferencias que dictaré son una introducción a un Seminario internacional de estudiantes, que es el primer gran acto científico que realiza el Instituto Románico de Rostock, y con el cual ha dado testimonio de su interés por las actividades iberoamericanistas. Se trata de una serie de observaciones acerca de los problemas actuales de América Latina.
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Esta última (3era) conferencia versara sobre la cultura y el Movimiento de Liberación Nacional en América Latina. El objetivo del Movimiento de Liberación Nacional es, en fin de cuentas, liberar las fuerzas productivas de las naciones latinoamericanas para desarrollar la vida nacional en interés de los pueblos latinoamericanos. Dentro de tal orientación, hay que ver el desarrollo de la cultura en Latinoamérica y la función que esta cumple en el Movimiento de Liberación Nacional.
Sobre Autonomía, Reforma y Política en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1827-1958
Livre commenté en Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien, Année 1976, Volume 26, Numéro 1.
Índice
Introducción
Las rentas universitarias
Universidad y Política
La situación académica
Conclusiones
Apéndice: Guión para un análisis histórico de la Universidad Central de Venezuela
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Diplomacia con Cañones 1895-1905
Reviewed in Latin American Research Review © 1985.
Livre commenté en Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1977.
De la Presentación:
Miriam Blanco Fombona de Hood penetra con su sagacidad de investigadora veterana, en una de las más dolorosas épocas por las que ha atravesado el país; analiza con fría visión objetiva y vigor científico, hechos que venían generando una difícil situación a los gobiernos venezolanos de turno y que al fin hizo explosión en diciembre del año de 1902. Nuestra escritora incursiona meticulosamente en hechos desconocidos por muchos, y luego de detenerse bastante alrededor de la figura de Antonio Guzmán Blanco, el Ilustre Americano, personalista como el que más, vulnerándolo en su estudio con lo que ella misma denomina “las razones para la autocracia” y que conformarían en sí mismas el absolutismo del caudillo letrado, que instaló el septenio para incrustar en Venezuela el medio político, físico y social a la usanza de la Francia napoleónica, arriba luego al meollo mismo de los trágicos sucesos que vivió el país en aquella época.
The Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 was a naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903 imposed against Venezuela by Britain, Germany and Italy over President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay foreign debts and damages suffered by European citizens in the Venezuelan civil war. Castro assumed that the United States' Monroe Doctrine would see the U.S. prevent European military intervention, but at the time the president Theodore Roosevelt and the Department of State saw the Doctrine as concerning European seizure of territory, rather than intervention per se. With prior promises that no such seizure would occur, the U.S. allowed the action to go ahead without objection. The blockade saw Venezuela's small navy quickly disabled, but Castro refused to give in, and instead agreed in principle to submit some of the claims to international arbitration, which he had previously rejected.
El Indio; Novela Mexicana
Gregorio López y Fuentes (17 de noviembre de 1895 – 10 de diciembre de 1966); fue un escritor mexicano que incursionó en la novela, poesía, periodismo y crónica de la Revolución mexicana. Fue contemporáneo de Mariano Azuela y Martín Luis Guzmán..
Lopez y Fuentes was awarded Mexico's first National Prize of Literature for this novel. The English translation by Anita Brenner was published by Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1937. It is presented here in synopsis form. Original quotes are italicized. Use the arrows to navigate. The last page returns you to this page.
Terra Nostra
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Terra Nostra is a 1975 novel by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. The narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". The novel received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1976 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1977.
El Pensamiento Económico en México
Del prólogo:
Este breve libro es un modesto esfuerzo para estudiar las ideas económicas en Mexico desde principios de la Independencia hasta nuestros dias. No se trata de agotar el tema sino tan solo ofrecer un cuadro general y a sabiendas esquemático. Se revisaron la mayor parte de los libros y algunos folletos, sin examinar las publicaciones periódicas, en ocasiones abundantes en útiles materiales.
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, born as Jesús Silva y Flores[4] (8 May 1935 — 6 March 2017) was a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[5] He served as secretary of Finance and Public Credit in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1986), as ambassador to Spain (1991–1994)[3] and the United States (1995–1997),[1] and as secretary of Tourism (1994) in the cabinet of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Historia Mínima de México
Daniel Cosío Villegas (Ciudad de México; 23 de julio de 1898 — Ibídem 10 de marzo de 1976) fue un economista, historiador, sociólogo, politólogo y ensayista mexicano. Fundador del Fondo de Cultura Económica y de la Escuela Nacional de Economía. Realizó estudios de economía en la Universidad Harvard, la Universidad de Wisconsin y la Universidad Cornell. Posteriormente recibió un máster del London School of Economics y École Libre de Sciences Politiques de París (actual Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). Su doctorado fue en Economía Agrícola..
Índice:
Explicación (Daniel Cosío Villegas)
I. El tiempo prehispánico (Ignacio Bernal)
1. Los orígenes
2. El mundo olmeca
3. Teotihuacan y la sociedad urbana
4. El fin del mundo indígena
II. La era virreinal (Alejandra Moreno Toscano)
1. El siglo de la conquista
2. La conquista espiritual
3. La economía colonial, 1650-1750
III. El período formativo (Luis González)
1. El Siglo de las Luces
2. La revolución de la independencia
3. El paréntesis de Santa Ana
4. La reforma
IV. El tramo moderno (Daniel Cosío Villegas)
1. La república restaurada
2. El porfiriato
V. La revolución mexicana (Eduardo Blanquel)
1. 1910-1920
2. 1921-1952
VI. El momento actual (Daniel Cosío Villegas)
1. Hasta 1972
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Documentos del Real Consulado de Caracas
De la cubierta:
Casi ignorado por los llamados “historiadores clásicos” de Venezuela, quienes no alcanzaron sino un conocimiento muy imperfecto de esta institución, el Real Consulado de Caracas ha sido revelado por la moderna investigación como uno de los más importantes organismos de los últimos tiempos de nuestro periodo español.
Ildefonso Leal … fue un destacado historiador, cronista, investigador, escritor y docente venezolano.
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Aparte de desarrollar trabajos de investigación en los fondos documentales del Archivo General de Indias, en Sevilla, España, durante siete años, fue Investigador en el Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid y en el Archivo General de Simancas en Valladolid, España. En Venezuela, Caracas, examinó los repositorios documentales del Archivo General de la Nación de Venezuela; Registro Principal del Distrito Capital; Archivo Arzobispal; Archivo de la Academia Nacional de la Historia; Archivo Histórico de Miraflores; Archivo Histórico de la Contraloría General de la República; Archivo de la Catedral de Caracas; Archivo de la Casa Natal del Libertador; Archivo Histórico de la Universidad Central de Venezuela; Archivo Histórico de Mérida; Archivos de Barquisimeto, Quibor y El Tocuyo (Estado Lara); Archivo de la Catedral y Registro Principal de Los Teques, Estado Miranda y en el Registro Principal, en Trujillo, Estado Trujillo.
Universidad de La Habana, No. 215 (Journal)
Universidad de La Habana. Publicación científica cubana certificada por el Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA). Revista más antiguas del país y una de las de más larga tradición en los medios universitarios de América Latina y del Caribe, reconocida internacionalmente como una de las mejores muestras de sistematicidad académica y calidad científica y humanista dentro del ámbito continental.
Sumario:
Valoraciones Clásicas:
Aristófanes y su público, por Elina Miranda.
En torno a la Eneida, por Luisa Campuzano.
En el bimilenario de la muerte de Virgilio, por Vicentina Antuña.
Valoraciones Latinoamericanas:
Los Comentarios reales: ideología y conciencia de clase, por Margarita Mateo.
Los cien años de unas Memorias prodigiosas, por Magda González Grau.
Mascaró, el cazador americano: comunicabilidad y ruptura, por Manuel Gayol.
Jorge Amado: cincuenta años de novelar, por Griselda Ortiz.
Valoraciones Cubanas:
Orígenes del teatro bufo cubano, por Fornarina Fornaris.
A propósito de la poesía de Rolando López del Amo, por Virgilio López Lemus.
La alianza obrero-campesina en Cuba: surgimiento y desarrollo, por Iliana Rojas y Mariana Ravenet.
Indagaciones Lingüísticas:
Los indoamericanismos en el Espejo de paciencia, por Sergio Valdés Bernal.
Acerca de las oraciones subordinadas en el diálogo, por Zoya Guetman.
La lexía en lingala, por Albert-Samuel M’Bouyou-M’Vou.
Indagaciones Filosóficas:
El problema de lo ideal y la esencia humana, por Gladys Portuondo.
Augusto Comte y la relación filosofía-ciencia, por Olga García Yero.
Lógica y verdad en el Tractatus lógico-philosophicus, por Lourdes Rensoli Laliga.
Materialismo histórico y conocimiento científico de la sociedad, por Jorge Hernández.
El objeto de la sociología marxista, por Roxana Vieta.
Comentarios
Libros
Ámbito Universitario
Colaboradores
Universidad de La Habana, No. 216 (Journal)
Universidad de La Habana. Publicación científica cubana certificada por el Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA). Revista más antiguas del país y una de las de más larga tradición en los medios universitarios de América Latina y del Caribe, reconocida internacionalmente como una de las mejores muestras de sistematicidad académica y calidad científica y humanista dentro del ámbito continental.
Sumario:
Homenaje a Nicolás Guillén:
Palabras pronunciadas en la investidura de Nicolás Guillén como Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de La Habana, por Mirta Aguirre.
Discurso de aceptación del título de Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de La Habana, por Nicolás Guillén.
Discurso pronunciado en la investidura de Nicolás Guillén como Profesor de Merito de la Universidad de Camagüey, por Fernando Vecino Alegret.
Notas sobre las Elegías de Nicolás Guillén, por Ángel Augier.
La defensa de lo cubano en Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas, por Oscar Valdés Carreras.
Síntesis bio - bibliográfica de Nicolás Guillén, por Josefina García Carranza.
Valoraciones Cubanas:
El pensamiento político y social de José A. Caballero, por Olivia Miranda.
Las ideas estéticas de Félix Varela, por Salvador Arias.
Enrique José Varona, poeta joven, por Luis Suardíaz.
El lingüista don Fernando Ortiz, por Sergio Valdés Bernal.
Carlos Loveira: material lingüístico y función estética, por Ana María González Mafud y Luis Álvarez Álvarez.
Pablo de la Torriente Brau: 1935-1936, por María del Carmen Victori.
El compañero critico José Antonio Portuondo, por Roberto Fernández Retamar.
Comentarios
Libros
Ámbito Universitario
Colaboradores
Universidad de La Habana, No. 217 (Journal)
Universidad de La Habana. Publicación científica cubana certificada por el Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA). Revista más antiguas del país y una de las de más larga tradición en los medios universitarios de América Latina y del Caribe, reconocida internacionalmente como una de las mejores muestras de sistematicidad académica y calidad científica y humanista dentro del ámbito continental.
Sumario:
Valoraciones Cubanas:
Algunos aspectos del pensamiento filosófico de Félix Varela, por Olivia Miranda Francisco.
La lingüística cubana en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, por Mercedes Dubed Echevarría.
Prometeo en Casal, por Elinda Miranda Cancela.
La educación en los inicios de la seudo-república: comentarios al texto Principios de moral e instrucción cívica, por Luis Ángel Arguelles Espinosa.
La vivienda obrera durante el machadato: el reparto Lutgardita, por Pilar Fernández Prieto.
Algunas cuestiones acerca del tránsito en Cuba de la revolución democrática-popular y nacional-liberadora a revolución socialista, por Thalía Fung.
Papel y lugar de la organización campesina en el sistema de la dictadura del proletariado en Cuba, por Iliana Rojas Requena.
Indagaciones:
El problema de lo uno y lo múltiple en la ontología leibniziana, por Lourdes Rensoli Laliga.
Un dilema superado, por Zaira Rodríguez Ugidos.
Análisis de algunas definiciones de persona gramatical, por María Elena Pelly.
Interrogación y presuposición en español, por Raquel García Riverón.
Comentarios
Libros
Ámbito Universitario
Colaboradores
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Año 69, Ene - Abril 1978, Núm. 1 (Journal)
El Culto a Bolívar: Esbozo para un Estudio de la Historia de las Ideas en Venezuela
De la portada:
El culto a Bolívar constituye el primer intento de explorar sistemáticamente una de las manifestaciones fundamentales de la vida ideológica de los venezolanos. Concebida como un esbozo para un estudio de la historia de las ideas en Venezuela, esta obra intenta trazar la evolución del pensamiento venezolano a partir de 1830, tomando como eje la que probablemente puede ser considerada como la expresión más genuina de ese pensamiento: El Culto a Bolívar.
Germán Carrera Damas (Cumaná, 28 de mayo de 1930). Profesor Titular III (jubilado) de la Escuela de Historia de la Facultad de Humanidades y Educación de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Maestro en Historia de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, revalidó la licenciatura y obtuvo el doctorado en su Escuela, de la que fue director. Fundó las cátedras de Historia de Historiografía Venezolana y de Técnicas de Investigación Documental. Desempeñó la Cátedra Simón Bolívar en la Universidad de Cambridge, Inglaterra. Inauguró la Cátedra Simón Bolívar en las universidades de Colonia, República Federal Alemana y Nacional Autónoma de México.
Comércio Livre entre Havana e os Portos de Espanha: 1778-1789, Vols 1 & 2
Tese de concurso para docência libre apresentada à cadeira de história da civilização americana da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 1965.
Da introdução:
O estudo do comércio livre entre Havana e os portos de Espanha no crepúsculo do século XVIII constitui um dos mais fascinantes e fecundos temas de investigação que se ofrece à historiografía contemporánea. O assunto é deveras febricitante e se encontra ainda inteiramente por desmoitar. Trata-se, afinal, da abordagem de importante setor da economia atlântica hispano-americana que seduz o espírito e que permanece ainda aberto à pesquisa e à análise. Rico em reflexão e formulação de problemas conserva-se reservado, quase insensível. Dirse-ia que o intrigado matagal ache-se por desbravar. A instituição do comércio livre entre Espanha e suas Índias Ocidentais é, realmente, uma história a se fazer: tese insinuante e sedutora, fenômeno fundamental para a compreensão da nova economia transatlântica nos derradeiros anos do século XVIII.
From the introduction:
The study of free trade between Havana and the ports of Spain in the twilight of the eighteenth century is one of the most fascinating and fruitful topics of investigation offered to contemporary historiography. The subject is indeed feverish and is still entirely unlearned. It is, after all, the approach of an important sector of the Hispanic-American Atlantic economy that seduces the mind and remains open to research and analysis. Rich in reflection and formulation of problems, it is reserved, almost insensitive. One would think that the puzzling "bush" is undiscovered. The institution of free trade between Spain and its West Indies is really a story to be made: insinuating and seductive thesis, a fundamental phenomenon for the understanding of the new transatlantic economy in the last years of the eighteenth century.
África en América Latina
Índice:
Aportes culturales y deculturación, por Manuel Moreno Fraginals.
Huida y enfrentamiento, por German Carrera Damas.
Organización social y alienación, por Octavio Ianni.
La organización social de las Antillas, por Jean Benoist.
Religión y cultura negra, por Juan Elbein Dos Santos y Deoscoredes M. Dos Santos.
La influencia africana sobre el idioma en el Caribe, por Richard Allsopp.
Presencia africana en la literatura del Caribe, por Edward Kamau Brathwaite.
Influencia africana en Latinoamérica: literatura oral y escrita, por Samuel Feijoo.
La música y la danza en Cuba, por Odilio Urfé.
Música y danza (América Latina continental, excepto Brasil), por Isabel Aretz.
La música de origen africano en Brasil, por José Jorge de Carvalho.
Las artes plásticas en las Antillas, México y América Central, por Adelaida de Juan.
Hábitos alimentarios africanos en América Latina, por Nitza Villapoll.
Saludo y despedida a la Negritud, por René Depestre.
América Latina en África, por Pierre Verger.
África en América Latina; una reflexión desprevenida, por Sidney W. Mintz.
Estudio de caso respuesta a los problemas de la esclavitud y de la colonización en Haití, por Jean Casimir.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Under the Waters of Mexico
Chapter 2 available online.
From the Cover:
An account of Pablo Bush Romero's life reads much like a Baedeker of adventure, for the author has led an active and varied life dominated by his great love of the outdoors. Photographer, big game hunter, lecturer, explorer, sportsman, writer, businessman-all these apply to him, and one more: humanitarian. For Mr. Romero is a member of many civic and historical associations, and has received various awards from such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, the Tennessee Archaeological Society, and the National Geographic Society.
Studies in Human Ecology
Contents:
Ecological potential and cultural development in Mesosamerica, by Angel Palerm and Eric R. Wolf.
The Central North American grassland: man-made or ntural?, by Waldo R. Wedel.
Environment and culture in the Amazon Basin, an appraisal of the theory of environmental determinism, by Betty J. Meggers.
The ecology of human disease, by Jacques M. May.
Culture and environment in Interior Asia, by Lawrence Krader.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Peregrinaje por el País de la Libertad Racional, 1783-1784
De las paginas introductorias:
Aparece esta obra en cumplimiento del Decreto Ejecutivo No. 1,613, de fecha 8 de Junio de 1976, por el cual Venezuela se asocia al júbilo de los Estados Unidos con ocasión del Bicentenario de su Independencia. Sobre los documentos del glorioso Precursor Francisco de Miranda – quien viajo por la república norteña recién constituida en los años 1783 y 1784 - , ha realizado un trabajo altamente meritorio la acreditada mirandista Josefina Rodríguez de Alonso, Consejera de nuestra Embajada en Paris. La entusiasta acuciosidad y la competencia de la galardonada escritora y académica, nos permite disfrutar de este admirable e histórico compendio de observaciones que sobre la entonces naciente federación del Norte nos dejó el sagaz hijo de Caracas, adelantando en la causa de la unidad latinoamericana.
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Su interés por conocer en detalle el proceso de la revolución americana, se encuentra sintetizado en esta frase de John Adams, segundo presidente norteamericano: “Era opinión general en Estados Unidos que Miranda sabia más de cada campaña, sitio, batalla o escaramuza que había tenido lugar durante la guerra que cualquier oficial de nuestro ejército o miembro de nuestro Congreso”.
During his time in the United States, Miranda made a critical study of its military defenses, which demonstrated extensive knowledge of the development of American conflict and circumstances. While there, Miranda prepared and fixed a correspondence technique, used for the rest of his journey: he would meet people through the gift or loan of books, and examine the culture and customs of the places through which he passed in a methodical way[4]. Passing through Charleston, Philadelphia, and Boston, he dealt with different characters in American society. In New York City he met the prominent and politically connected Livingston family. Apparently Miranda had a romantic relationship with Susan Livingston, daughter of Chancellor Livingston. Although Miranda wrote to her for years, he never saw her again after leaving New York. During his time in the United States, Miranda met with many important people. He was personally acquainted with George Washington in Philadelphia. He also met General Henry Knox[4], Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton[4], Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. He also visited various institutions of the new nation that impressed him such as the Library of Newport and Princeton College, Rhode Island College and Cambridge College.
Un Hombre Llamado Rómulo Betancourt: Apreciaciones Críticas Sobre su Vida y su Obra
De la Nota del Editor:
La primera parte de este libro contiene casi íntegramente los textos de nuestra edición de 1948 – Ediciones Caribe – con el título de Rómulo Betancourt, Semblanza de un Político Popular, y de la reimpresión ampliada que hiciera la Editorial SUMA en 1958, bajo el título de Rómulo Betancourt, Interpretación de su Doctrina Popular y Democrática. La segunda parte incluye todos los materiales de nuestra edición de 1971 – Ediciones Centauro – con el título de El General Betancourt y Otros Escritos. Al final se agregan textos de épocas distintas, también producidos por figuras de significación en los campos de la política y las letras de Venezuela y otros países.
Social Science Trends in Latin America
Reviewed in Foreign Affairs.
Obituary of the author in The New York Times.
About the author (from the book):
Formerly Dean of Hiram College, Professor Harold E. Davis is now Chairman of the Division of Social Studies and Director of Inter-American Studies at The American University. Through extensive travel in Latin America and through his work as Director of the Division of Education and Teacher Aids of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs he has been in close contact with Latin American scholars for many years.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy
Reviewed in Pacific Historical Review © 1962.
Reviewed in The Journal of Conflict Resolution © 1962.
From the Preface:
This book attempts to delineate the rationale of the Good Neighbor policy. It came to be written out of an interest in the nature and limits of enduring, pacific, political relationships between the United States, as a great power, and the Latin American countries, as lesser powers, in the period from 1926 to 1943. The chief problems with which it deals are those of the origins and consequences of the formal and unreserved abandonment of the use of force by the United States in its relations with Latin American countries. These relations did not develop haphazardly after 1926; they were guided at first by impulses and later by political ideas that began to take the shape of principles with the sharpening of appreciation of the nature of this interstate society from which coercion was banned.
Venezuela
Reviewed in The Americas.
From the Preface:
I lived in Caracas in 1950 and 1951, during which time I had an opportunity to visit all twenty states, all the major cities, and every oilfield and refinery. One by-product of this sojourn was my book Petroleum in Venezuela, published by the University of California Press in 1954. I visited Venezuela again during 1956. Over the past decade I have had good opportunities to follow closely the extraordinarily rapid political, social, and economic changes that have characterized Venezuela's recent history, either from my United States government posts dealing with Latin American affairs (1952-3, 1955-7) or from my academic employment as Professor of Modern Latin American History (1953-5, and 1957 to the present time). I also keep up a steady correspondence with my many good Venezuelan friends.
Edwin Lieuwen (February 8, 1923 – May 25, 1988) was an American historian, professor, and author. His area of expertise was focused on Latin America. His work was a major precursor to the establishing of the Latin American Institute.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica
Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1968.
Reviewed in Caribbean Studies © 1969.
Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as well as the sociology of development. His book Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Cartas a un Ciudadano
Disponible en línea .
José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer served as President of Costa Rica on three occasions: 1948–1949, 1953–1958 and 1970–1974. During his first term in office he abolished the country's army, nationalized its banking sector, and granted women and blacks the right to vote. He was a good friend of the Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marín, praising his political achievements in one of his essays.
Monday, June 5, 2017
El Movimiento Obrero Latinoamericano
Moisés POBLETE TRONCOSO, Chilean lawyer; Moisés was born on November 15, 1893 in Chillán, Chile; member and representative in Chile, International Labor Office, since 1927; Member Comisión Chilena de Cooperación Intelectual, Institut dc Sociologic (Geneva), American Institute of International Law, Academy, of Polit. Science, American Academy, of Political and Social Science, Unión para la Victoria (president); member Institute del Trabajo in Santa Fé and Córdoba (Argentina), Sito Paulo (Brazil).
Padre de Sergio Poblete Garcés .
El Camino de El Dorado
Disponible en línea, (PDF).
Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, lawyer, journalist, writer, television producer and politician. (...) Uslar led a remarkably fruitful life, influential in Venezuelan politics, historical analysis and literature, and as an educator. His period of activity spanned the last years of Venezuelan Caudillismo, the transition to democracy and most of the democratic era of 1958 - 1999. He held posts such as Secretary for the Venezuelan Delegation at the League of Nations, delegate at the International Labour Organization, minister of education, minister of finance, contributor to the Act of Constitution of the New Democratic Government (1958), ambassador to the United States of America, professor of Latin American literature at Columbia University, professor of political economics at the Central University of Venezuela, chief editor of a main newspaper, candidate for the Presidency and member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
Arturo Uslar Pietri OL (Caracas, 16 de mayo de 1906-ibídem, 26 de febrero de 2001), fue un polímata: abogado, periodista, escritor, productor de televisión y político venezolano. En su país ha sido considerado como uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo XX.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Christian Democracy in Venezuela
Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies © 1981 .
Reviewed in The American Historical Review © 1981 .
See also Ideology, Economic Power and Regional Imperialism: The Determinants of Foreign Policy under Venezuela's Christian Democrats, by Donald L. Herman.
From the cover:
The Christian Democrats and Accion Democratica have retained, and even increased, their political importance in the 1970s. Christian Democracy in Venezuela explains the processes of AD-COPEI opposition and accommodation which have insured a third decade of democracy for this resource-laden and politically important Latin American nation.
The British in the Caribbean
Reviewed in The William and Mary Quarterly © 1974.
Reviewed in The Journal of American History.
Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies.
Reviewed in The American Historical Review.
From AbeBooks:
English exploration & colonization of the region, from Drake & Hawkins, colonies in Guyana, Barbados, Caribees; planters & slavers; to nineteenth century emancipations.
Interesting notes from: Nettelbeck, David, A history of Arusha School, Tanzania, 1974:
From 1946 to 1963 under the second major Headmaster (Cyril) Hamshere and a stable senior staff, the school expanded and became an efficient and somewhat impersonal yet vital and living community. (…) In 1961 the country gained its independence, followed in January 1962 by the abolition of separate European, Indian and African education departments. This history is brought to a conclusion in 1969, 7 years after the integrated system of education became effective. During these years, the school returned to semi-Diocesan control under a Board of Governors and became an "international community" feeling its way very hesitantly to a place within independent Tanzania. In 1969, the post-independence Headmaster Bryn Jones left, the last of the British indent staff arrived, and the first of many missionary recruited teachers was employed on terms similar to those of 1934. (…) The first Government appointee as Headmaster was Cyril Hamshere (M.A. Cantab) who was born in East Africa and whose father Archdeacon J.E. Hamshere had been Principal of the Diocesan Training College for pastors and teachers up to his retirement in 1928, when Wynn Jones took over from him. The missionaries who withdrew in 1946 from the staff hoped that through Hamshere, a personal if no longer official link between the Diocese and Government would be retained. (…) Those who worked with him describe Hamshere as an efficient, rather impersonal man who was dominating and demanding with his staff. His nick name was "Old Pomposity" and one of his common greetings was, “I am Mr. Hamshere. I am the Headmaster”. An amusing sidelight on his personality was the bell system he had connected to his study door. When a visitor knocked, a one bell-ring reply meant come in, two rings wait, and three rings go away! (…) For all his strength and gifts, Hamshere was not an educational innovator. Many exciting things went on outside the classroom, but apart from local studies in the social studies curriculum of the lower grades, the impression is of rather formal, academic classroom instruction, with outdated and dull text books, though this may have been typical of his time.
What Happened in Cuba: A Documentary History
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1962.
From the cover:
The object of this fascinating collection of source material is to expose the broad spectrum of United States-Cuban relations by offering pertinent historical documents from the areas of economic, ideological, military, and political interaction. Although this volume is concerned mainly with Cuba, the documents included also give a clear perspective on relations between the United States and the rest of the Latin American area, for United States involvements with the rest of Latin America and with various European nations have influenced United States-Cuban relations.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
A Strategy for Research on Social Policy (Volume 1 of The Politics of Change in Venezuela)
Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly © 1971.
Reviewed in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs © 1970.
Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology 79, no. 1.
Professor Frank Bonilla (February 3, 1925 – December 28, 2010) was an American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies. After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, where his dissertation was supervised by Talcott Parsons, he had held faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the City University of New York. He is a key figure in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Hispanic Leadership Forum and the Center for Puerto Rico Studies at the City University of New York.[1].
Electoral Mobilization and Public Opinion: The Venezuelan Campaign of 1973
Reviewed in The Americas © 1979.
See also Enrique A. Baloyra: A Remembrance.
From the cover:
This study attempts to measure the impact of the electoral campaign of 1973 on voting behavior. It is divided into three parts: part 1 describes the political environment and the parties, the elections and patterns of campaigning; part 2 discusses the selection of candidates, issues, and campaign organization, strategies and tactics; and part 3 analyzes the various campaign styles and the results of the election. It concludes that the outcome of an election is indeed affected by the nature of a political campaign.
John D. Martz is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. The author of numerous works on Latin American politics, he has been editor of Studies in Comparative International Development since 1988, and before that editor of the Latin American Research Review.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Obras Completas: Silabario de la Decoración Americana
Ricardo Rojas (San Miguel de Tucumán, 16 de septiembre de 1882 – Buenos Aires, 29 de julio de 1957) fue un poeta, dramaturgo, orador, político e historiador argentino. Aunque tucumano por su lugar de nacimiento, por su linaje materno y por parte de su crianza en su niñez y juventud; por linaje paterno provenía de una de las familias más influyentes de Santiago del Estero, donde su padre fue gobernador de la provincia homónima.
De Silabario Revista de Estudios y Ensayos Geoculturales. ISSN 1514-4100:
En 1930, Ricardo Rojas editó un libro de destino azaroso: Silabario de la decoración americana.[1] La elección del título apuntaba a un programa de lectura cuya praxis debía desplazarse entre los términos enseñanza/aprendizaje como campo de experimentación de una estética, una moral y un método de investigación. Mi obra es apenas una incitación para empezar a descifrar estéticamente los signos del arte americano.[2]
Fundación Ricardo Rojas.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Por la Democracia Universitaria
Desde el inicio:
Este trabajo ya estaba en prensa cuando se comenzó a discutirse en el Congreso Nacional la reforma parcial a la Ley de Universidades dictada en el año 1958. En muchas páginas hacemos referencias y enfrentamos directamente la concepción y el contenido antiuniversitarios del proyecto de reforma, desde nuestra posición de universitarios comprometidos con los intereses de la juventud y el pueblo venezolanos.
Frontera, Junio 26, 2016:
José Mendoza Angulo: En el ámbito Docente tuvo a su cargo la cátedra de Historia de Venezuela y Geografía Económica de Venezuela en el Liceo Libertador de Mérida, en el campo universitario ejerció las cátedras de Economía Política en Derecho y Humanidades e Historia del Análisis Económico y de Economía del Trabajo en la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de los Andes y culminó su actividad universitaria desempeñándose gremialmente como Presidente de la Asociación de Profesores Universitarios (APULA); finalizando como Rector de nuestra Universidad emeritense.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Comercio Terrestre de y entre las Provincias de Centroamérica - Tomo I
De la “Advertencia”:
El presente trabajo resume las investigaciones realizadas por el autor en el Archivo General de Centroamérica, en bibliotecas nacionales y particulares, así como en otras fuentes que, no siendo propiamente históricas, contienen valiosos datos acerca de la actividad comercial entre las provincias de la Real Audiencia del Reino de Guatemala y que, territorialmente, corresponden a lo que actualmente se denomina Centroamérica.
Reconquest of Mexico: An Amiable Journey in Pursuit of Cortes
Reviewed in Kirkus.
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (August 21, 1931 – June 4, 2008)[1][2] was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He was the preeminent expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also wrote about writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and John O'Hara, and was editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Venezuela, Política y Petróleo
Reseñada en: Social Research © 1958.
Prodavinci | 22 de abril, 2014: La primera edición de este libro se publicó en 1956, por la Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica, de México. El autor estaba entonces en el exilio. Venezuela, política y petróleo era de prohibida circulación en Venezuela y solo escasos ejemplares pudieron evadir la barrera policial que impedía su acceso al país.
Ver además blog de Rómulo Betancourt Bello.
Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981); known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Acción Democrática, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century. Betancourt, one of Venezuela's most important political figures, led a tumultuous and highly controversial career in Latin American politics. Periods of exile brought Betancourt in contact with various Latin American countries as well as the United States, securing his legacy as one of the most prominent international leaders to emerge from 20th-century Latin America. Scholars credit Betancourt as the Founding Father of modern democratic Venezuela.
Memoria del Primer Congreso Nacional de Sociología (Asociación Colombiana de Sociología)
Parcialmente disponible aquí, (PDF).
Orlando Fals Borda (Barranquilla, 11 de julio de 1925 - Bogotá, 12 de agosto de 2008) fue un Investigador y sociólogo colombiano. (...) El recorrido fundamental de la obra de Fals Borda está dado en la conjunción de la indagación sociológica con el compromiso político en beneficio de los "sectores populares" (campesinos y proletariado agrícola en lo fundamental), en cuya "praxis" postula la "investigación-acción participativa". Su obra es consultada en todas partes, al considerarse que activa innovaciones metodológicas en la práctica sociológica.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Ejido: Mexico's Way Out
Reviewed in The Catholic Historical Review © 1939.
Reviewed in Journal of Farm Economics © 1937.
Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Volume 43, Number 3 | Nov., 1937.
Reseñada en la Revista de Historia de América © 1938.
Ejido: In (the) Mexican system of government, an ejido… is an area of communal land used for agriculture, on which community members individually farm designated parcels and collectively maintain communal holdings. Ejidos are registered with Mexico's National Agrarian Registry (Registro Agrario Nacional). The system of ejidos was based on an understanding of the Aztec calpulli and the medieval Spanish ejido.
Manual de Historia Universal, Tomo VI, Historia de América
Tomos V & VI reseñados, (PDF).
Traducido desde Wikipedia:
Francisco Morales Padrón was a renown Spanish historian, who specialized in the discovery of America at the University of Seville... He completed his studies at the University of La Laguna, then specialized in History of America at the Hispalense. Among his most renowned works are "Jamaica Española" (1952), "Canary-American trade (XVI, XVII, XVIII)" (1995), "History of the Conquest of America" (1973), and “Seville, The Canaries and America" (1970), or "Sevilla insólita" (1972), edited up to seven times and the most sold copy of the Publications Service of the University of Seville.
Monday, March 20, 2017
All the Peoples of the World Are Men: The Disputation between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and Religious Capacity of the American Indians
Reviewed in The Journal of Modern History © 1978.
The Valladolid debate (1550–1551) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of a colonized people by colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in the Spanish city of Valladolid, it was a moral and theological debate about the colonization of the Americas, its justification for the conversion to Catholicism and more specifically about the relations between the European settlers and the natives of the New World. It consisted of a number of opposing views about the way natives were to be integrated into colonial life, their conversion to Christianity and their rights and obligations. A controversial theologian, Dominican friar and Bishop of Chiapas Bartolomé de las Casas, argued that the Amerindians were free men in the natural order despite their practice of human sacrifices and other such customs, deserving the same consideration as the colonizers.[1] Opposing this view were a number of scholars and priests including humanist scholar Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, who argued that the human sacrifice of innocents, cannibalism, and other such "crimes against nature" were unacceptable and should be suppressed by any means possible including war.[2]
Bernal Diaz del Castillo: The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521
Previewed online HERE.
Versions available online HERE and HERE.
A review in Foreign Affairs.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to 1496, birth date is uncertain – 1584)[1] was a Spanish conquistador, who did not hold a leadership position in the conquest of Mexico, but participated as a soldier of fortune with Hernán Cortés. As an experienced soldier of fortune, he had already participated in expeditions to Tierra Firme, Cuba, and to Yucatán before joining Cortés. In his later years he was an encomendero and governor in Guatemala where he wrote his memoirs called "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain". He began his account of the conquest almost thirty years after the events and later revised and expanded it in response to the biography published by Cortes's chaplain Francisco López de Gómara, which he considered to be largely inaccurate in that it did not give due recognition to the efforts and sacrifices of others in the Spanish expedition.
About one of the Editors:
Eileen Edna LePoer Power (9 January 1889 – 8 August 1940) was a British economic historian and medievalist.
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Power was Director of Studies in History at Girton College (1913–21), Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics (1921–24), and Reader of the University of London (1924–31). In 1931 she became Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she remained until 1938 when she became Professor of Economic History at Cambridge University. Her most famous book, Medieval People, was published in 1924. In 1927 Power founded the Economic History Review.
Betancourt y Leoní en la Guayana Esequiba
De la “Declaración” del autor:
El presente trabajo tiene por finalidad, ampliar la investigación que iniciara a finales de 1966, año en que se firmó el Tratado denominado “Acuerdo de Ginebra”, mediante el cual Venezuela y Gran Bretaña establecían una serie de instancias para buscar la solución “practica” a la reclamación venezolana de los 159.500 km2 que conforman territorialmente nuestra Guayana Esequiba.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí
Extracto de una nota al calce en las páginas 5-6 de Hacia una historia crítica de la literatura en Bolivia:
La edición de Gustavo Adolfo Otero (1943) utiliza el nombre de Nicolás de Martínez Arzanz y Vela. Sin embargo, dos investigadores, Mario Chacón y Gunnar Mendoza, coinciden en que hasta que no se halle el certificado de bautismo u otro documento relevante, lo más razonable es usar el nombre que usamos aquí: Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela (Ver Mendoza y Hanke 1965: xxxiii-xxxiv).
Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela ( Villa Imperial de Potosí, Perú, 5 de noviembre de 1674 - 25 de enero de 1736), fue un cronista potosino autor de un monumental trabajo literario e historiográfico que, bajo el título de Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí, le convierte en uno de los cronistas más lúcidos y amenos de la literatura virreinal1 y considerado como fuente indispensable para los estudiosos del Alto Perú2 .
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Alrededor de 1705 comenzó a escribir la Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí, obra que se vio interrumpida por su muerte y que fue continuada por su hijo, Diego, quien "agregó ocho capítulos más de inferior calidad y llenos de hechos esperpénticos".3 Recuperada a principios del siglo XX, la Universidad de Brown sacó en 1965 una edición en tres tomos.
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El hijo de Arzáns, que guardaba los originales, se vio obligado a empeñarlos a un eclesiástico, que los conservó durante 20 años; "una copia del manuscrito llegó hasta la biblioteca del Rey de España y otra fue comprada en 1877 para ser publicada en Europa. Posiblemente sea esta copia la que adquirió en París en 1905 el ingeniero norteamericano coronel George E. Church, quien a su muerte la obsequió con todos sus papeles a la Brown University en Providence, Rhode Island, donde había nacido".3 Antes que los tres tomos fueran publicados por la universidad estadounidense, en Buenos Aires aparecieron en 1943 los 50 primeros capítulos de esta monumental obra.
El Indoamericanismo y el Problema Racial en las Américas
Reseñada en The Americas V. 4 # 2.
Reseñada en Nature 156.
Ver además El problema racial en la conquista de América.
Alejandro Lipschutz Friedman (Riga, Letonia, 1883 - Santiago, 10 de enero de 1980)1 fue un científico, médico, académico y filósofo chileno de origen judío-letón. Realizó estudios en el área de la Fisiología, la Endocrinología sexual y, como antropólogo, en el del indigenismo biológico y cultural de América. En 1969 fue el primero a quien se le otorgó el Premio Nacional de Ciencias de Chile.
Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches
Available online HERE, (1910), and HERE, (1900).
From SLAVERY AS A SYSTEM OF PRODUCTION IN TRIBAL SOCIETY, (1966):
It is now more than half a century since the publication, in 1900, of the comprehensive study on slavery by the ethnologist H. J. Nieboer.1 Rejecting the then current theories, according to which the institution of slavery arose, of necessity, at a given stage of social evolution, Nieboer attempted to explain the phenomenon in functional terms.2 In order to establish the factors determining the occurrence of slavery Nieboer based his research on data relating to 391 tribal societies listed in tables compiled by S. R. Steinmetz.3.
Batlle, Héroe Civil
José Pablo Torcuato Batlle Ordóñez (Montevideo, 21 de mayo de 1856 - 20 de octubre de 1929), fue un político y periodista de Uruguay. Presidente de la República por dos períodos: 1903 - 1907 y 1911 - 1915.
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Llevó a cabo reformas económicas y sociales que permitieron a Uruguay transformarse en uno de los países más estables política y económicamente de América latina. Impulsó la constitución de 1917, cuya principal característica era la de establecer un ejecutivo colegiado. Debido a la derrota electoral de 1916 y luego de negociaciones con sus oponentes políticos, el proyecto original derivó en un Poder Ejecutivo bicéfalo, formado por la Presidencia de la República y el Consejo Nacional de Administración. Si bien fue presidente sólo durante 3 años, se lo considera la figura más gravitante e influyente en la política de su país desde su primera presidencia hasta su muerte, período que abarca más de 25 años.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
A Brief Sketch of British Honduras
About the author (pdf):
Hamilton was born on November 30, 1901, in Melbourne, Australia, to Scottish Presbyterian missionary parents. Though life led him through many lands, he was always a Scot and proud of it, and he often found that his heritage served him well in the tasks to which he dedicated himself. After a brief period in Australia, the Anderson family moved to a new post in Kenya, where much of Hamilton's early schooling was completed in Nairobi.
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Hamilton went out to British Honduras in 1927 for a brief stay, or so he thought; after his father's death, his sojourn lengthened to 40 years, and British Honduras virtually became his home, though the ties with the British Isles were never severed.
What is Socialism?
Richard Hart (13 August 1917 – 21 December 2013) was a Jamaican historian, solicitor and politician. He was a founding member of the People's National Party (PNP) and one of the pioneers of Marxism in Jamaica.[1] He played an important role in Jamaican politics in the years leading up to Independence in 1958.[2][3][4][5] He subsequently was based in Guyana for two years, before relocating to London in 1965, working as a solicitor and co-founding the campaigning organisation Caribbean Labour Solidarity. He went on to serve as attorney-general in Grenada under the People's Revolutionary Government in 1983. He spent the latter years of his life in the UK, where he died in Bristol.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
U.S. Intervention in Guyana
This booklet is a collection of “Straight Talk” articles written for and published in the Mirror, a national daily newspaper, by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the leader of the People’s Progressive Party. The articles have been brought together in this form in the hope that they will prove valuable not only to the broad masses within our national boundaries and beyond, but also to all other people everywhere who view with concern our internal struggle and the increasing political tensions and social contradictions largely due to foreign, particularly United States, interference in our domestic affairs.
Higher Education in Trinidad and Tobago: a Focus on Organizational Development and Change
Available online (pdf).
Over the past thirty (30) years, Dr. Williams has worked at all levels of the education system in the Caribbean, her last position being that of Head of the Department of Management Studies and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies.
Universidad y Sociedad en América Latina: Un Esquema de Interpretación
Segunda edición disponible en línea (pdf).
José Joaquín Brunner Ried (5 de diciembre de 1944) es un político, investigador y académico chileno. Fue militante del centroizquierdista Partido por la Democracia, y se desempeñó por casi cuatro años como ministro de Estado durante el Gobierno del presidente democratacristiano Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.
República Dominicana y las Relaciones Internacionales
Del Prefacio, escrito por Eduardo Latorre:
(Este libro) Nació de la inquietud de un grupo de jóvenes dominicanos, calificados en el área de relaciones internacionales y preocupados por la suerte de este pueblo.
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El primer paso fue hacer un seminario. Este tenía como objetivo principiar a dar a conocer a nivel científico la seria problemática de las relaciones internacionales y como, de manera general, estas afectan la vida de nuestro país. También se pretendía explorar ligeramente las posibilidades de como la República Dominicana podría maximizar sus ventajas dentro de las limitaciones ofrecidas por las actuales estructuras internacionales.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Merchants and Planters
Reviewed by The William and Mary Quarterly © 1960.
Reviewed by Renaissance News © 1961.
Reviewed by The Journal of Southern History © 1960.
Reviewed by The Journal of Modern History, Sep., 1961.
Richard Pares CBE (25 August 1902 – 3 May 1958) was a British historian. He "was considered to be among the outstanding British historians of his time."[1]
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In 1927–28, he was appointed assistant lecturer in history at University College, London, before obtaining a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Scholarship to do research in the United States and in the West Indies on mid-eighteenth-century trade. On his return to England, he was appointed lecturer in history at New College, Oxford. In 1940, World War II interrupted his Oxford academic career and he became an administrative civil servant at the Board of Trade. On returning to his academic career in 1945 as professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his wartime public service[citation needed]. He remained at Edinburgh until he resigned for reasons of health in 1954. In 1951, he was Ford's Lecturer in Oxford and he was joint editor of the English Historical Review from 1939 to 1958. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1948.
Bibliografía de las Plantaciones
Del Prefacio:
En el curso del presente año la Unión Panamericana, en colaboración con el Gobierno de Puerto Rico y el Programa de investigación y adiestramiento para el estudio del hombre en el trópico de la Universidad de Columbia, organizó un Seminario sobre las plantaciones del Nuevo Mundo.
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Durante la preparación del Seminario tuvimos conocimiento de que el doctor Edgar T. Thompson, que ha dedicado largos años de su vida al estudio de las plantaciones, había reunido una extensa bibliografía sobre el tema, todavía inédita. Los organizadores del Seminario pensaron que podían prestar un breve servicio haciendo accesible este excelente instrumento de trabajo a los especialistas interesados en el estudio de las plantaciones.
Bim, Vol. 14, No. 55 (Journal)
Table of Contents:
Notebook.
The West Indian, by C.L.R. James.
The Fellow Travelers, by John Wickham.
O Hearing Wilson Harris Speak, by Berenth Lindfors.
Flying Fishing, by Elwyn Parry-Jones.
West Indian Poetry: Some Problems of Assessment – Part Two, by F.G. Rohlehr.
Gran Nan, by Cynthia Wilson.
Caribbean Collage – James Berry, Faustin Charles, Frank Collymore, John Figueroa, Denis Foster, A. L. Hendriks, Robert Lee, Ian McDonald, Mervyn Morris, Bruce St. John, John Wickham.
Things in the Silence, by Harold Marshall
Notes and Additions to the Barbadian Glossary, by Frank Collymore.
Bay Brown Window, by Ron Welburn
Esmeralda, by Timothy Callender.
Towards an Eastern Caribbean Federation.
Think If You Can Of Beauty, by John McClellan.
Look Homeward Bajan, by Clare MacCulloch.
Book Reviews.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Gambage / by Earl Augustus & others
From the Foreword:
Every type of society is in a constant state of change…
One consequence of this change is the rapid disappearance of many of our legacies. One of these legacies is the stories of bygone days. A team of young men led by Mr. Earl Augustus is attempting to record and preserve what is left of these tales. This volume is the first of the series of five to be compiled by the team and published by the U.W.I. Extra-Mural Department. I wish to recommend the book especially for children but hope that adults will also find the stories interesting.
E.D. Ramesar
Resident Tutor.
Table of Contents:
How Nancy Fooled Lion.
Rat, Rabbit and Cat.
Courage! Compere Goat.
Why Nancy Lives in a Roof.
Keys to Understanding.
Game.
Questions.
Solutions to Puzzles and Notes (…) Nancy: Represented by the Spider, reputed to be the most crafty figure in the New World…
The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter
Reviewed in The New England Quarterly © 1970.
William Monroe Trotter (sometimes just Monroe Trotter, April 7, 1872 – April 7, 1934) was a newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts, and an activist for African-American civil rights. He was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper, as a vehicle to express that opposition. Active in protest movements for civil rights throughout the 1900s and 1910s, he also revealed some of the differences within the African-American community. He contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Wilson Harris: A Philosophical Approach
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (born 24 March 1921) is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English.
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Literary critics have stated that although reading Harris's work is challenging, it is rewarding in many ways. Harris has been admired for his exploration of the themes of conquest and colonization as well as the struggles of colonized peoples. Readers have commented that his novels are an attempt to express truths about the way people experience reality through the lens of the imagination. Harris has been faulted for his novels that have often nonlinear plot lines, and for his preference of internal perceptions over external realities.
The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government
Available online.
Reviewed in The Journal of Politics © 1961.
Social Research, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Journal)
Social Research has its origins in the New School's historic effort to provide intellectuals safe haven as the Nazis began to threaten Jewish scholars prior to the onset of WWII. This group of rescued scholars, known as the University in Exile, launched Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences in 1934 on the core conviction that every true university must have its own distinct public voice.
Table of Contents:
De Homine Abscondito, by Helmuth Plessner.
Human Nature and Modern Society, by Paul Leyhausen.
Biological Glimpses of Some Aspects of Human Sociology, by H. Hediger.
Assortment and Selection, by Ilse Schwidetzky.
Darwinian Sociology Without Social Darwinism, by Alexander Alland, Jr.
Philosophers and Intellectuals: The Question of Academic Freedom.
White Versus Colored in Britain: An Explosive Confrontation?, by Daniel C. Kramer.
The International Scene – Current Trends in the Social Sciences: Metabletics of Loneliness: An Account of J.H. van den Berg’s Life in Multiplicity, by M. Jacobs.
Book Reviews:
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Ivar Oxall, Black Intellectuals Come to Power: The Rise of Creole Nationalism in Trinidad & Tobago, reviewed by Thomas G. Mathews.
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Sonderausstellung Karl V
Aus dem Vorwort:
Einen Anlaß dieser Art bot der vierhundertste Todestag Kaiser Karls V., den die Wiener Universität heuer durch eine Gedenkwoche begeht, bei der auch spanische Historiker das Wort ergreifen werden. Ungeachtet der auf den ersten Blick nicht allzu dichten Beziehungen Karl V. zu Österreich, das von ihm schon 1521/22 seinem Bruder Ferdinand I. überlassen wurde, erwies sich, daß der Reichtum des Wiener Museal- und Archivgutes eine würdige und international konkurrenz- fahige Illustration der geschichtlichen Gestalt des Kaisers und seines Zeitalters ermöglichte.
Rough translation:
The four hundredth anniversary of the death of Emperor Charles V, which the Viennese University is celebrating this year, was the occasion of a memorial week, in which Spanish historians will also speak. Notwithstanding the not very close relations between Charles V and Austria, which he had already given to his brother Ferdinand I in 1521/22, the wealth of the Viennese museological and archival material proved worthy and internationally competitive Illustration of the historical form of the Emperor and his age.
Charles V.
Social Mobility, Leadership and Political Change in Jamaica (Separata)
Excerpt:
This project was a study, extending from 1956 to 1963 of the transition of the Caribbean island of Jamaica from a British colony to an independent nation-state, a political status which Jamaica achieved on August 6, 1962. Although most of the data were the results of a mail questionnaire survey conducted in Jamaica in the spring and summer of 1958, the general conclusions reached were based, additionally, on discussions and interviews with leaders and others in Jamaica at various times during 1956, 1960, 1961, and 1962. The purposes of the study were (1) to explore and discover the causes of nationalism, i.e., to determine those factors which produce nationalist attitudes, that underlie a person’s desire and drive for political independence, and those which in others result conversely in preferences for colonial status and opposition to national movement; (2) to describe the changing social composition and power of different types of elite groups during the transition to nationhood; and (3) to analyze attitudes of Jamaica elites toward the big decisions of nationhood, i.e., toward those actions most significant in shaping the future character of the Jamaican polity, economy, and society.
Attitudes toward Democracy among Leaders in Four Emergent Nations (Separata)
Available online.
Cultural Unity and Diversity in New States (Separata)
Human diversity is a source of human problems. Like most treasures, the great advantages of individual and cultural differences are not had without cost and control. Nowhere is this poignant aspect of the human condition more apparent than in the newly emerging nations, where education is relied upon as a primary tool for achievement of cultural unity. This analysis of the difficulties posed by cultural pluralism was prepared by Dr. Moskos and Dr. Bell during a year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California, and under a grant by the Carnegie Corporation to the Political Change Committee of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Equality and Attitudes of Elites in Jamaica (Separata)
Wendell Bell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and a Fellow of the Koerner Center, Yale University. He joined the Yale faculty in 1963, served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, helped to found the Yale Program (now Department) of African American Studies, directed the Yale Comparative Sociology Training Program, which required students to do research abroad, and was a Senior Research Scientist in the Yale Center for Comparative Research (2000-05). Before that, he was on the faculties of Stanford University where he directed the Stanford Survey Research Facility (1952-54), Northwestern University (1954-57), and UCLA, where he headed the West Indies Study Program (1957-63). He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA (1963-64). During World War II, he was a naval aviator and did a tour of duty in the Philippines. His fields of interest are futures studies and social change, human values and global ethics, altruism, social stratification, ethnicity and nationalism (Caribbean, Western Europe, and comparatively worldwide).
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Ingratitude and Outrage: 27 Years in the Dominican Republic
Part I – Statement presented by Puerto Rican Civil Engineer and Contractor, Mr. Félix Benítez Rexach, through Radio Caribe in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 8, 1962, in which he explained to the Dominican People his solely professional participation in the development of the public works of that country, throughout the 27 years he lived among them, working and helping to enhance the progress of the Republic.
Part II – After the exposition of facts made by engineer Félix Benítez Rexach to the Dominican People over the radio, printed in Part I hereof, this second Part is a brief and truthful account of the inconceivable vexation and abuse suffered by Mr. Félix Benítez Rexach at the hands of the present Dominican Government.
Félix Benítez Rexach [note 1] (March 27, 1886 – November 2, 1975) was a Puerto Rican engineer and businessman who built the Normandie Hotel, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (…) Benítez Rexach also worked on various projects in the Dominican Republic, as a consequence of the friendship which he had with that country's dictator, Rafael L. Trujillo. Among his works in that country were the Port of Santo Domingo and the "Avenida Jorge Washington" (George Washington Avenue). (…) Benítez Rexach was a passionate Puerto Rican patriot and a personal friend of Pedro Albizu Campos, president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
La Desnutrición y sus Implicaciones Sociales en la República Dominicana
Índice:
Discurso de orden del Dr. Alfonso Lockward en la apertura del seminario sobre la desnutrición y sus implicaciones sociales en la República Dominicana.
Introducción al seminario sobre el impacto social de la desnutrición en la República Dominicana (nutrición y cultura).
Estrategia para la producción y mercadeo de los productos agropecuarios dentro de las metas de desarrollo económico dominicano, por Bienvenido Brito.
Situación nutricional y salud pública en la República Dominicana, por Víctor Suero.
Salud, educación, nutrición: estrategia para la acción, por Amiro Pérez Mera.
Nutrición, distribución del ingreso y desarrollo agrícola, por Flavio Machicado Saravia.
Resumen y conclusiones.
Crisis in the British West Indies
Available online.
Extract:
At a time when so many of the colored peoples of the world are demanding and gaining their independence from colonial rule, it is something of an anomaly to find a people who, having taken a second look, are not sure they want it so quickly or in the way it was planned. This is what has happened on the island of Jamaica, one of the principal units in the Federation of the West Indies.
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