Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States Oscar G. Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, and Linda Hardberger. San Antonio: Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, University of Texas Press, 2010.

Born in 1926 outside of San Antonio, Texas, to a migrant farmworker family, Reies López Tijerina’s earliest years were defined by severe poverty and intense religiosity. Nevertheless, starting as a boy, Tijerina saw himself as destined by God for greatness. After attending a Pentecostal Bible college, he spent five years as an Assembly of God minister before becoming an itinerant preacher. As a preacher, he crisscrossed the United States, including several trips through northern New Mexico, which introduced him to the sordid history of land dispossession in the region. His marriage to a fellow Bible school student, Mary Escobar, produced an ever-growing family that joined him in his constant travels and life of precarity. In 1954, a collection of his sermons condemned the United States and its citizens for licentiousness and greed.

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INTER-AMERICAN NOTES: CONFERENCES

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/tam.2014.31 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 149-150

Author(s):

Bridget María Chesterton

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Environmental History ◽

The United States ◽

Liberal Party ◽

University Of Texas ◽

History Of ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The University ◽

First Time ◽

Suny Stony

Between July 23 and July 25, 2014, the University of Montevideo hosted the Fourth Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Paraguay, with sponsorship from the Universities of Georgia, Köln, and Rennes 2. Organized by Thomas Whigham and Juan Manuel Casal, the conference included 45 presenters and 70 attendees traveling to the Uruguayan capital from the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Students from both the National and Catholic Universities of Asunción also took part with one of their number, Claudio José Fuentes Armadans (Universidad Católica), providing an interesting presentation on the history of the Liberal Party. First-time contributors to the conference included Carlos Gómez Florentín (SUNY Stony Brook), who discussed the environmental history of the hydroelectric complex at Itaipú, and Justin Michael Heath (University of Texas, Austin), who traced the evolution of frontier security in the early Jesuit missions. The Jornadas also benefited from repeat contributors, including Ignacio Telesca (Universidad Nacional de Formosa/CONICET), who analyzed the historical content of Paraguayan textbooks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Bridget María Chesterton, who discussed how the “sweet herb” ka’a he’e (stevia) has affected markets and habits of consumption in more recent times.

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Book Reviews

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods ◽

10.33043/th.4.1.35-46 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 35-46

Author(s):

Joseph M. McCarthy ◽

Sally Allen ◽

Michael L. Tate ◽

Michael B. Husband ◽

Charles T. Haley ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Roman Empire ◽

Prince Edward Island ◽

The United States ◽

University Of Texas ◽

History Of ◽

City State ◽

The University ◽

Lincoln University

J.H. Plumb, Frederic A. Youngs, Jr., Henry L. Snyder, E. A. Reitan, and David M. Fahey. The English Heritage. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978. Pp. 419. Paper, $9.95. Review by Don M. Cregier of the University of Prince Edward Island. J. R. Hay. The Development of the British Welfare State, 1880-1975. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Pp. x, 116. Cloth, $18.95; C. J. Bartlett. A History of Postwar Britain, 1945-1974. New York: Longman, Inc., 1977. Pp. v, 360. Cloth, $19.00; paper, $9.95. Review by Fred R. van Hartesveldt of Valley City State College. Donald Kagan, ed. The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation? Second edition. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1978. Pp. xii, 188. Paper, $3.95. Review by Charles M. Flail of Harwood Union High School. Alexander J. DeGrand. The Italian Nationalist Association and .the Rise of Fascism in Italy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1978.- pp. x, 238. Cloth, $12.50; Leon Poliakov. The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe. New York: Meridian, 1974. Pp. x, 388. Paper, $4.95; Esmonde M. Robertson. Mussolini as Empire Builder: Europe and Africa, 1932-36. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. Pp. 246. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Helmut J. Schmeller of Fort Hays State University. Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble. The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States. New York: Penguin, 1977. Pp. 448. Paper, $4.95. Review by Larry A. Greene of Seton Hall University. Irwin Unger. These United States: The Questions of Our Past. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xxiv, 993, lxxix. Cloth, $15.95 (single-volume ed.); paper, $9.95 (two-volume ed.); H. L. Ingle and James A. Ward. American History: A Brief View. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xii, 500, ix. Paper, $9.95 (single-volume ed.); $5.95/volume (two-volume ed.). Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Maxine Seller. To Seek America: A History of Ethnic Life in America. Englewood, New Jersey: Jerome S. Ozer, 1977. Pp. 328. Paper, $6.95. Review Larry Madaras of Howard Community College (Maryland). Willie Lee Rose, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 537. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $7.00. Review by Charles T. Haley of Colby College. Alice Marriott and Carol Rachlin. Plains Indian Mythology. New York: Mentor, 1975. Pp. xi, 180. Paper, $1.75. Review by Michael B. Husband of Morningside College. J. Frank Dobie. Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico (c. 1967), 1976. Pp. xiii, 366. Paper, $4.95; James B. Gillett. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1925), 1976. Pp. xxxvi, 259. Paper, $3.95; Robert Edgar Riegel. The Story of the Western Railroads: From 1852 Through the Reign of the Giants. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1926), 1964.Pp. xv, 345. Paper, $3.95. Review by Michael L. Tate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Emma Goldman. Living My Life. Edited by Richard and Anna Maria Drinnon. New York: The New American Library, 1977. Pp. 754. Paper, $6.95. Review by Sally Allen of Hampshire College. John Baskin. New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. New York: Plume, 1977 . Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $2.95; Diana Klebanow, Franklin L. Jonas, and Ira M. Leonard. Urban Legacy: The Story of America's Cities. New York: Mentor, 1977. Pp. xix, 421. Paper, $2.95. Review Joseph M. McCarthy of Suffolk University.

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