Between Two Worlds - Educated Puerto Rican Migrant Women of the Early Settlements

Sanchez Korrol, Virginia E., “Between Two Worlds - Educated Puerto Rican Migrant Women of the Early Settlements” (Paper), N.D.

Virginia Sánchez Korrol is an American historian and foundational figure in the field of Puerto Rican studies. She is a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and CUNY. Throughout her career, Sánchez Korrol has also worked with the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn’s Hispanic Communities Oral History Project, and as one of three U.S. scholars on the international program committee of the Fifth International Congress on Hispanic Cultures in the United States, which was held in Madrid, Spain, in 1992.

Transición de Casta a Clase: la Gente de Color en la Sociedad Norteamericana

Fisher, Sethard, “Transición de Casta a Clase: la Gente de Color en la Sociedad Norteamericana”, (Esta es una versión algo aumentada de un trabajo presentado en la junta del ASA en Nueva York, durante el verano de 1973).

Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Article in a Mimeo slated to appear in the Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Puerto Rico: VOL. XIX, NÚM. 2, JUNIO DE 1975.

Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas

Hauch, Charles C., Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas: Bulletin, 1960, No. 26. OE-14043, Washington: Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Available online.

From the Foreword:

Educational trends throughout the world hold wider and deeper significance for American education today than in any previous period of our country. Thousands upon thousands of foreign students from many nations are enrolled each year in American colleges and universities. Increasingly the vital part which education contributes to the development of society is being recognized by peoples and their governments. The present bulletin is another in the Office of Education's long established series on education in other countries. This bulletin deals with some of the most apparent educational trends at the present time in European affiliated areas of the Caribbean. These include the British, Netherlands, and French affiliated areas. The educational ties of these areas with the United States add importance and interest to such a study. To cite just one example, more than 1,400 students from the British Caribbean areas alone were enrolled in institutions of higher learning in the United States during the 1958-59 school year, according to published statistics of the privately supported Institute of International Education. Information in this bulletin is based in considerable part on direct observation by the author of educational institutions and practices, and on discussions with educational and other specialists, in certain of the Caribbean areas during the latter part of 1958. These observations and discussions were supplemented by extensive study of published source materials and other writings on the area generally and its educational patterns and facilities. A selected bibliography is included. Two appendixes present: (1) Summary of Recommendations of the Regional Conference on the Training of Teachers in the British Caribbean, 1957; and (2) Summary of Principal Recommendations of the Mission on Higher Technical Education in the British Caribbean. Individual chapters contain footnotes.

Reviewed in The Americas.

University Centers of Foreign Affairs Research, [U.S.] Dept. of State Publication 8378

Office of External Research, U.S. Dept. of State, University Centers of Foreign Affairs Research, [U.S.] Dept. of State Publication 8378, Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April, 1968.

From the Foreword (Scope of this Directory):

As a service to the academic community and to Government agencies sponsoring research, the Office of External Research of the Department of State has published several directories of centers engaged in international studies. (…) The focus of this volume is on U.S. university affiliated centers which have as their main purpose social science research in foreign affairs. It includes only those university research programs and projects which are organized into easily identified centers or institutes. It includes both area-oriented research centers and those specializing in a functional field. It does not, however, include centers at which a principal emphasis is on teaching at the undergraduate level.

Institute of Caribbean Studies (Entry # 145, p. 97)

Description: The purposes of the Institute are to encourage, support and serve as a center for scholarly research and exchange in the Caribbean, to give disciplinary training to Caribbean specialists, and to stimulate interest in the Caribbean among the University community.

The American Tradition in Foreign Policy

Tannenbaum, Frank, The American Tradition in Foreign Policy, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. (signed by the author for Dr. Mathews, his former doctoral student)

Reviewed in Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 32: Iss. 1.

Reviewed in The Journal of Politics, Volume 17, Number 3 | Aug., 1955.

See also The Balance of Power Versus the Coördinate State:

This essay is an attempt to state what has always been the American philosophy of international relations. It brings to the surface the beliefs and the ideals upon which this nation was built as a great federal system, and shows how these same commitments have shaped our foreign policy from the beginning.

The Old Gringo

Fuentes, Carlos, The Old Gringo, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1985.

The Old Gringo is a novel by Carlos Fuentes, written from 1964 to 1984 and first published in 1985. Fuentes stated: "What started this novel was my admiration for Ambrose Bierce and for his Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. I was fascinated with the idea of a man who fought in the United States Civil War and dies in a Mexican civil war."[1] The novel addresses themes of death, cultural exchange, and Mexican identity, among others. Its English-language translation became the first novel by a Mexican author to become a U.S. bestseller.[2] The book was one of three nominees for the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award as best novel of 1985.[3]

Peregrinaje por el País de la Libertad Racional, 1783-1784

De Miranda, Francisco, Peregrinaje por el país de la libertad racional, 1783-1784: diario de viajes a través de los Estados Unidos, Caracas: Oficina Central de Información, Dirección de Publicaciones, 1976.(parcialmente destruido por comején)

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.

The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy

Wood, Bryce, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967.

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.

The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter

Fox, Stephen R., The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter, New York: Atheneum, 1971.

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).

Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas

Hauch, Charles C., Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas, Washington D.C.: Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960.

Reviewed in The Americas, Volume 17, Issue 4 April 1961.

From the Foreword:

The present bulletin is another in the Office of Education's long established series on education in other countries. This bulletin deals with some of the most apparent educational trends at the present time in European affiliated areas of the Caribbean. These include the British, Netherlands, and French affiliated areas. The educational ties of these areas with the United States add importance and interest to such a study. To cite just one example, more than 1,400 students from the British Caribbean areas alone were enrolled in institutions of higher learning in the United States during the 1958-59 school year, according to published statistics of the privately supported Institute of International Education. Information in this bulletin is based in considerable part on direct observation by the author of educational institutions and practices, and on discussions with educational and other specialists, in certain of the Caribbean areas during the latter part of 1958. These observations and discussions were supplemented by extensive study of published source materials and other writings on the area generally and its educational patterns and facilities.

The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired

Tinker, Edward Larocque, The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired, Books of the Americas No. 1, New York: Hastings House, 1953.

Partially available online.

From the inner sleeve:

This volume presents a fascinating account of life on the cattle frontiers of the western hemisphere, together with an enlightening discussion of the amazingly rich literature that has grown up around these popular heroes, the South American gaucho, the Mexican charro and our own cowboy.

La Guerra del Caribe en el Siglo XVIII

Zapatero, Juan Manuel, La guerra del Caribe en el siglo XVIII, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1964.

De la portada:

Su formación histórico-militar, reconocida en Hispanoamérica y en España, le ha llevado al campo de especialización en fortificaciones históricas, a las que ha aportado numerosos trabajos publicados en la Revista de Indias; Revista de Historia Militar de España; Anuario de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, Buenos Aires; Anuario de la Academia Argentina de Geografía, y Revista "Asinto" (Asoc. de Ingenieros de la Construcción y Electricidad del Arma de Ingenieros, Madrid), parte de los cuales han servido para redactar LA GUERRA DEL CARIBE EN EL SIGLO XVIII, detenido estudio de la contienda anglo-española por la disputa y posesión de antiguos dominios. Por estos trabajos, el Gobierno Español le recompensó con el ingreso en la Orden del Mérito Civil.

The author’s historical-military training, recognized in Hispanic America and Spain, has led him to the field of specialization in historical fortifications, to which he has contributed numerous works published in the Journal of the Indies; the Journal of Military History of Spain; the Yearbook of the National Academy of History, Buenos Aires; the Yearbook of the Argentina Academy of Geography and the journal "Asinto" (Assoc. Of Engineering, Construction and Electrical …Engineers, Madrid), part of which served to draft the WAR OF THE CARIBBEAN IN THE XVIII CENTURY, a careful study of the Anglo-Spanish dispute and contest for possession of ancient domains. For these works, the Spanish Government rewarded him with membership in the Order of Civil Merit.

The United States and the Caribbean

Perkins, Dexter, The United States and the Caribbean, [Introduction by Sumner Welles], Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.

Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly © 1948 .

Dexter Perkins (1889–1984) was one of the most prominent authorities on United States History and served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester.
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From 1928 to 1932, Perkins was secretary to the American Historical Association, succeeded by Conyers Read. In 1945 he was the first to hold Cambridge University’s Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions.[4] Dr. Perkins was also the John L. Senior Professor of American Civilization at Cornell University from 1954 to 1959. He was a former visiting professor at the University of London and Cambridge University. Perkins was the official U.S. historian at the 1945 San Francisco Security Conference that preceded the organization of the United Nations.

The Economic Basis of Politics, and Related Writings

Beard, Charles Austin, The Economic Basis of Politics, and Related Writings New York: Vintage Books, 1957.

Available in part online.

Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles. Beard's most influential book, An Economic Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution (1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication. While frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of American history of the founding era.[1][2][3] He was also the co-author with his wife Mary Beard of The Rise of American Civilization (1927), which had a major influence on American historians.

The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America (separata)

McGann, Thomas F., The Ambassador and the Dictator: The Braden Mission to Argentina and Its Significance for United States Relations with Latin America, reprinted from The Centennial Review, Vol. VI, No.3, Summer 1962.

Available online.

Spruille Braden (March 13, 1894 – January 10, 1978) was an American diplomat, businessman, lobbyist, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the ambassador of various Latin American countries, and as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He is notable for his interventionist activities and his prominent role in several coups d'état.
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Beginning in 1948, Braden was a paid lobbyist for the United Fruit Company. When the company's interests were threatened in Guatemala by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Braden helped to conceive and execute the 1954 coup d'état that overthrew him. In his first act as newly ignaugurated President of Nicaragua on May 1, 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle conferred Nicaragua's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of Ruben Dario, on Ambassador Spruille Braden and his wife Verbena for their "unstinting efforts in the cause of freedom in all of Latin America".

Haitian Migration and the Haitian Economy: Papers

Latortue, Paul R., Dianne E. Rocheleau & Karen E. Richman, Haitian Migration and the Haitian Economy: Papers, Gainesville: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1984.

Paul R. Latortue: The Haitian Economy in Historical Perspective; Dianne Rocheleau: Geographic and Socioeconomic Aspects of the Recent Haitian Migration to South Florida; Karen E. Richman: From Peasant to Migratory Farmworker: Haitian Migrants in U.S. Agriculture.

From Associate Director Terry L. McCoy:

The contents of Occasional Paper No. 3 originated in 1982. Dr. Latortue gave his paper at a mini-seminar on Haiti held at the University in July. He returned a year later as a Visiting Scholar with the Caribbean Migration Program. Dr. Rocheleu’s paper was done as a part of a joint research Project conducted with Florida International University under the State STAR grant to investigate the impact of immigrants and refugees on Florida. Karen Richman’s paper is derived from her work on Haitians in the domestic migrant stream.

Marines in Santo Domingo!

Perlo, Victor, Marines in Santo Domingo! New York: New Outlook Publishers, June, 1965. (two copies)

Available online at Political Affairs

Victor Perlo (1912–1999) was a Marxist economist, government functionary, and a longtime member of the governing National Committee of the Communist Party USA.

Historia de la Trata de Negros

Mannix, Daniel P. & M Cowley, Historia de la trata de negros, (tr. por Eduardo Bolívar Rodríguez), Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1968.

Reseñada en la Revista española de la opinión pública © 1968.

Reseñada en el Blog de reseñas de Esteban Mira Caballo.

Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1911 – Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1997) was an American author, journalist, photographer, sideshow performer, stage magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker. His best-known works are the 1958 book Those About to Die, which remained in continuous print for three decades, and the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound which in 1981 was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions.

Shipwrecks of the Western Hemisphere, 1492-1825

Marx Robert F., Shipwrecks of the western hemisphere, 1492-1825, New York & Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1971.

Contents:

PART ONE
Ch. 1 - The Ships
Ch. 2 - Early Salvors, Treasure Hunters and Marine Archaeology
Ch. 3 - Locating Shipwrecks
Ch. 4 - Surveying, Mapping, and Excavating a Site
Ch. 5 - Identification and Dating of Shipwrecks and Their Cargoes
Ch. 6 - Preservation of Artifacts

PART TWO
Ch. 1 - Canada
Ch. 2 - The United States
Ch. 3 - Florida
Ch. 4 - Mexico
Ch. 5 - The Lesser Antilles
Ch. 6 - Bermuda
Ch. 7 - The Bahamas
Ch. 8 - Cuba
Ch. 9 - Hispaniola
Ch. 10 - Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
Ch. 11 - Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Ch. 12 - Central America and Off-Lying Areas
Ch. 13 - South America
Selected Bibliography

Black Nationalism in America

Bracey, John H., August Meier & Elliott Rudwick, Eds., Black Nationalism in America, Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

Available online (PDF).

Professor John H. Bracey, Jr., has taught in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1972. He is now serving a second stint as department chair, and is co-director of the department’s graduate certificate in African Diaspora Studies. His major academic interests are in African American social history, radical ideologies and movements, and the history of African American Women and more recently the interactions between Native Americans and African Americans, and Afro-Latinos in the United States. During the 1960s, Professor Bracey was active in the Civil Rights, Black Liberation, and other radical movements in Chicago.