Recently added articles from The Americas:
STATISTICS, MAPS, AND LEGIBILITY: Negotiating Nationalism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Oct 01, 2009; ... "These days, we want to know everything and forget nothing. Life needs to confess to itself and take a test of conscience. Let's grab life by the neck so that it makes that confession in the elegandy eloquent form of numbers, tables, formulas, and diagrams. This is statistics: the confession ...
COLD WAR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: Conflict in Guerrero, Mexico
Oct 01, 2009; ... "Our struggle has its inspirational roots in [our] national history and reality: our flag . . . is the same raised by Hidalgo, Morelos and Guerrero, Juárez, Zapata and Villa." Genaro Vázquez Rojas, La Asociación Cívica Nacional Revolucionaria, ...
NOTARIZED AND BAPTISMAL MANUMISSIONS IN THE PARISH OF SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO DAS MORTES, MINAS GERAIS (C. 1750-1850)
Oct 01, 2009; ... As regards the slave societies of the Americas, it is hard to imagine a more palpable example of social mobility than manumissions. The fact that exslaves were able to carve out a space for themselves within tne larger slave societies attests to their resilience - a resilience that must have ...
BROKEN SPEARS OR BROKEN BONES: Evolution of the Most Famous Line in Nahuatl
Oct 01, 2009; ... Arguably the line "Broken Spears" is die most famous in Nahuati. Any undergraduate student who has taken a course in Latin American history, literature, or anthropology has in all likelihood come across the line. It, of course, comes from the tide of Miguel León-Portilla's book of the same name ....
FELLOWSHIPS
Oct 01, 2009; ... JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately thirty short- and long-term Research Fellowships for the period June 1, 2010-June 30, 2011. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of ...