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136 pages with photographs, figures and bibliography. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial wrappers. First edition. They stand on a hilltop in the mountains of Minas Gerais in Brazil twelve dramatic figures, twelve Old Testament prophets soundlessly crying their warnings to mankind. There they have stood for over two centuries, masterpieces by that strange, unhappy sculptor, Antonio Francisco Lisboa or, as he is better known, Aleijadinho, "The Little Cripple." Condition: Jacket corners, spine ends and edges chipped with closed tears and small loss to spine ends and edges, price clipped quarter inch chip to back head edge else very good in like jacket.

xiv+316 pages with tables, maps, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. First edition. With the rapid expansion of an international wool market in the 19th century, sheep raising and the wool trade became the most lucrative businesses in Argentina from the 1840s to the 1880s. Sabato focuses on the link between agrarian and mercantile activity to analyze the way in which capitalism took shape in 19th century Argentina Condition: Near fine.

x+173 pages with plates and photographs. Folio (13" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition. This work on Columbia cover the period from 1810-1960. Other editions have cover the period up to the present century. Condition: First 47 pages damp stained ad rippled. spine ends chipped, spine mildewed, corners bumped and creased, wrapper with edge tears else a poor copy.

xv+219 pages with frontispiece, photographs, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound ion original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and black pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Often described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. By 1910 and the Revolution, he was a radical anarchist in exile in the United States. Always a Rebel studies Magon's transformation during those crucial ten years, placing his changing ideas in the context of the liberal movement in Mexico, government suppression, the development of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in the United States, and thwarted attempts at revolution in 1906 and 1908. The first work to concentrate on Flores Magon himself, Always a Rebel makes clear the journalist's significance in Mexican history and explains modern Mexico's growing appreciation for him. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

University of Michigan Press 1959 Ann Arbor, 1959 Very good in a better than very good dust jacket 1st Hardbound Large Octavio xiv, 260p Previous owner's name marked out on front end paper, former owner's stamp on title page and page 100, corners bumped. DW lightly soiled,. Hardcover.

xxi+487 pages with frontispiece, plates, maps, glossary, index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with green label to spine with gilt lettering to spine in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Foreword Roberto de Oliveira Campos. Inscribed by author. First edition. Along and substantial life of the first of the post-1964 military Presidents, amply documenting his unusual talents for political maneuver and negotiation. An interesting foreword by Roberto Campos notes how Castello Branco "skillfully managed to blend the disciplinary and the transformational elements-repression and reform," thus enlisting for the revolution the strong backing of the urban middle class. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper. Corners and edge gently bumped. Jacket corners and hinge corners lightly chipped, spine sunned, fold over flaps rubbed, price clipped else very good in like jacket.

Labyrinthos 1991 Culver City, 1991 Better than very good issued in wrappers Reprint Wrappers Quarto vi, 50p Translated by Robert Wood, notes by Frank Comperato.. Soft cover.

242 pages with maps, tables, appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" X 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempt to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of stress, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords. In examining the character of village uprisings, typical relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair. landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole, and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not political… Read More

18 pages with map and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Errata slip tipped in. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba Publicaciones del Instituto de Arqueologia, inguistica y Folklore "Dr Pablo Cabrera" number V. First edition. This covers a brief history of the discovery and conquest of Cordoba now in Argentina to 1577, before the establishment of the Jesuits who came in 1599. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, offset darkening to edges else very good.

UNAM 1995 Mexico, 1995 Very good to fine lacking dust jacket 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo 297p Limited to 1000 copies. Light edge wear.. Hardcover.

xvi+469 pages with appendix and bibliography. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First editionFocusing on the fate of the natives under Spanish rule, the author traces in graphic detail the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people. While demonstrating the excesses of the conquistadors and unscrupulous crown officials, he also emphasizes that Central America was the scene of the first attempt to apply the famous New Laws. Although that legislation was not fully implemented, the reformist judge Alonso Lopez de Cerrato made significant improvements in labor conditions, in the face of furious opposition from the Spanish settlers. Aside from it discussion of labor practices, this account deals with population figures and the extent of the slave trade, and corrects a number of errors in traditional sources. In addition, Spanish Indian policy, particularly at the local level, is examined… Read More

xii+253 pages with tables, charts, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with brown lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In effect this is a short work, concise, not a work wasted: the style is strictly matter-of-fact, through neither perfunctory nor pedestrian. It is a research manual: its character as such is not unnaturally emphasized by the appendices. For the first time complete tables of holders of audiencia offices through the later part of colonial rule. Condition: Jacket price clipped else a near fine copy in like jacket.

xii+252 pagers with maps, illustrations, glossary and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. To map the shifting interplay of state with federal politics in Brazil over the turbulent period from 1930 to 1964 is a task of no mean proportion or value. Carlos Cortés attempts that and more. By arguing that Rio Grande do Sul deliberately and decisively circumscribed the actions of national political figures, most dramatically those of Getúlio Vargas between 1930 and 1937, but also those of João Goulart in the 1960s, Cortés gives bold interpretive shape to that mapping. Condition: Head page ends soiled. Jacket price clipped, darkening to spine and edges, spine ends and corners chipped else very good in like jacket.

38+unpaginated reproduced pages from the Gazeta de Caracas. Folio (15" x 11") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over beige boards with black and red lettering to cover. From the library of Professor Donald Worcester. First published as newspaper from 1811-1812. La Gazeta de Caracas was the first newspaper printed in Venezuela; its first issue was published on October 24, 1808. In 1814, its name changed to Gaceta de Caracas. The newspaper was issued, with some interruptions, until January 1822. It was printed by the Britons Matthew Gallagher and James Lamb, who had brought a printing press from Trinidad. They became the first typographers working in Venezuela. The newspaper published news and ideas favorable toward the current government, which would subject it to rapid changes in editorial policies as the Venezuelan War of Independence raged; its sympathies alternated between royalist and republican, somewhat undermining its credibility. Andrés Bello was… Read More

xvi+388 pages with 2 maps, 21 figures, 29 tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1st edition. The Countryside near Guadalajara underwent great change in the eighteenth century, for that city, dependent on the surrounding area for food and other resources, grew six fold in those one hundred years. This book examines the period 1675-1820, showing how the haciendas near Guadalajara responded to a rapidly escalating demand for meat, maize, wheat, and other necessities. By studying how agricultural production, patterns of capital investment, the labor system, and land ownership and use changed to meet the city's increasing needs, Van Young demonstrates the vital role cities play in the modernization of traditional peasant societies. Unlike in Europe, the great rural estates of Mexico intensified but did not otherwise change their methods of agricultural technology. By increasing capital investment, paying more workers less money, and… Read More

7 volumes. Volume 1: Cedulario Cortesiano; xxii+6363 pages with index volume 2: Heraldica de Cortes 321 pages with color frontispiece and index; volume 3: Cortes ante la Juventud 362 pages with color frontispiece and index; volume 4: Cesar y Cortes 252 pages with two frontispieces and index; volume 5: Cristobal de Olid Conquistador de Mexico y Honduras 316 pages with frontispiece and index, appendix and index; volume 6: Expedicion Cortessiana a las Molucas, 1527 315 pages with frontispiece, plates, bibliography and index; volume 7:Bibliografica de Hernan Cortes viii+269 pages with frontispiece and bibliography. Duodecimo (7" x 6") Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 7 bound in original publisher's wrappers, 4, 5 & 6 bound in original publisher's cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. To be published in 10 volumes. First edition's. A collection of works focusing on the history and biography of Hernan Cortes. A great reference work on the conqueror sometimes compared to Caesar. Condition: Volume 1 wrapper detached… Read More

Universidad de Navarra 1966 Pamplona, 1966 Very good issued in wrapprs 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo 695p Edges and spine ends rubbed, corners bumped, spine ends lightly chipped.. Soft cover.

x+302 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (9 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In 1963, after four years of hearings in this country, Venezuelan former president Marcos Pérez Jiménez was extradited from the United States to his homeland, where a five-year-long trial before that country's supreme court found him guilty of misusing Venezuela's wealth. This book outlines the early career and dictatorial government of Pérez Jiménez and the efforts of his rival and eventual successor, Rómulo Betancourt, to hold him legally responsible for his abuses of power. Among the conclusions drawn from the case, Judith Ewell shows that the effort to hold a former dictator responsible for his crimes can help legitimize the new revolutionary government, that U.S. cooperation depends more on its foreign policy of the moment than on the merits of the legal case, that extradition of a former head of state always… Read More

xviii+334 pages with frontispiece, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original brown buckram with black lettering to spine and front cover. First edition. The author was Chicago newspaperman John F Finerty (1846-1908). The manuscript was preserved many years by his daughter-in-law, Mrs John F Finerty, Jr, who resides in Mexico. Editing and annotations were provided by Wilbert H Timmons of The University of Texas at El Paso. The result is an unusual book - one which provides a contemporary reaction to Mexico in 1879, some judgments revised twenty-five years later, and all published for the first time ninety-six years after the author observed the events. Condition: Jacket spine sunned, corners and spine ends chipped with 1/4" loss to spine head, closed edge tears else a very good to fine copy in a very good jacket.

xi+184 pages with frontispiece map, facsimiles, plates, tables, appendixes, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1.4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial map to cover. First edition. In six chapters, Burkholder examines Baquíjano's family ties; economic and social positions; law studies; early academic successes; first trip to Madrid (and its miserable outcome); and attempts to earn merit as a university professor, as lawyer to various corporations, and as interim crown attorney, all of which came close to failure because of over ambitiousness and goals too highly set. Burkholder seeks to connect personal circumstances and enterprises of Baquíjano with general political developments and to contrast the personal strategy with the particular legal norms and political conceptions of the crown. Drawing on substantial new sources, Burkholder succeeds in illuminating the mechanisms and problems that a pretender to an audiencia post had to face… Read More