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W. GEORGE LOVELL
Adjunct Professor Emeritus,
Department of Geography at Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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W. GEORGE LOVELL
Professor of Geography, Emeritus
Visiting Professor in Latin American History
Queen's University and Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Seville, Spain
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BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Lovell, W. George. 2022. Review of Javier Uriarte, The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (2020), in Media, War & Conflict (2022), 15 (3), pp. 401-403. Download pdf. Access online.
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Lovell, W. George. 2022. Review of Cole Harris, A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada (2021), in Progress in Human Geography (2022) 46 (4)11, pp. 1124-26. Download pdf. View the complete Book Review Symposium here.
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Lovell, W. George. 2020. Review of Robert M. Carmack, The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories (2017), in Ethnohistory 67, 3 (2020), pp. 533-535.
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Lovell, W. George. 2019. Review of Mallory E. Matsumoto, Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib' K'iche' Títulos: "The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors" (2017), in Hispanic American Historical Review 99, 2 (2019), pp. 353-354. Access online.
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Lovell, W. George. 2018. Review of Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859 (2017), translated and edited by Katia Sainson, in AAG Review of Books 6, 2 (2018), pp. 77-79. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2015. Robert W. Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810 (2013), in Journal of Historical Geography 48 (2015), p.71 and Anuario de Estudios Americanos 72, 2 (2015), pp. 784-786 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2015. Review of Gregory T. Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (2013), in Journal of Latin American Geography 14, 1 (2015), pp.173-175. Access online, with Queen's login. Download pdf.
Lovell, W. George. 2015. Review of Sylvia Sellers-García, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery (2014), in Anuario de Estudios Americanos 72, 1 (2015), pp. 383-385 (Spanish). Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2014. Review of Sylvia Sellers-García, Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery (2014), in The Americas 71, 1 (2014), pp. 151-153. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2014. Review of Susanna B. Hecht, The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha (2013), in Journal of Peasant Studies, 41, 3 (2014), pp. 434-437. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2014. Review of Luciana Martins, Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil (2013), in Society and Space: Environment and Planning D, www.societyandspace.org (2014). Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2014. Review of Susanna Badgely Place, Guatemala Journey Among the Ixil Maya of Guatemala (2013), www.guatemalaixiljourney.org (2014). Read online.
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Lovell, W. George. 2013. Review of Daniel W. Gade, Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination (2011), in The Canadian Geographer 57, 4 (2013), online e29-e30. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2013. Review of Matthew Liebmann and Melissa S. Murphy, eds., Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas (2011), in Ethnohistory 60, 1 (2013), pp. 128-130. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2012. Review of Emilio del Valle Escalante, Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity, and Identity Politics (2009), in Journal of Latin American Geography 11, 1 (2012), pp. 173-175 and Anuario de Estudios Americanos 69, 1 (2012), pp. 380-383 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2011. Review of Peter H. Herlihy, Kent Mathewson, and Craig S. Revels, eds., Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays Honoring William V. Davidson (2008), in Journal of Historical Geography 37, 4 (2011), p. 521. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2010. Review of Karen Bassie-Sweet, Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities (2008), in Journal of Historical Geography 36, 1 (2010), pp. 107-108 and Anuario de Estudios Americanos 67, 1 (2010), pp. 312-314 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2010. Review of Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (2008), in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 35(70) (2010), pp. 262-264 and Mesoamérica 52 (2010), pp. 199-201 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2009. Review of Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2007), in Journal of Latin American Geography 8, 1 (2009), pp. 204-206. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2009. Review of Laura Matthew and Michel Oudijk, eds., Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica (2007), in Ethnohistory 56, 4 (2009), pp. 749-53 and Anuario de Estudios Americanos 66, 2 (2009), pp. 329-333 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2009. Review of Joel Wainwright, Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya (2008), in Social and Cultural Geography 10, 1 (2009), pp. 97-98. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2008. Review of Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2007), in Anuario de Estudios Americanos 65, 2 (2008), 324-327 (Spanish). Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2007. Review of Davíd Carrasco, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 3 vols. (2001), in Anuario de Estudios Americanos 64, 2 (2007), pp. 314-322 (Spanish). Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2006. Review of Robinson Herrera, Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala (2003), in Bulletin of Latin American Research 25, 2 (2006), pp. 309-310. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2005. Review of Martha Few, Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (2002), in Colonial Latin American Review 14, 2 (2015), pp. 338-340. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2005. Review of Timothy Hawkins, José de Bustamante and Central American Independence (2004), in American Historical Review 110, 5 (2005), pp. 1570-1571. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2005. Review of Adriaan C. van Oss, Church and Society in Spanish America (2003), in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 78 (2005), pp.111-113. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2005. Review of Suzanne A. Alchon, A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective (2003), in Ethnohistory 52, 1 (2005), pp. 198-200. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2004. Review of John Bale and Mike Cronin, Sport and Postcolonialism (2003), in Sociology of Sport 21, 4 (2004), pp. 223-26 (with David Bakhurst and John McGarry). Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2004. Review of Daniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Betrayal, Forgetting, and Terror in Guatemala (2002), in American Anthropologist 106, 3 (2004), pp. 640-641. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2004. Review of Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton (2003), in Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84, 4, pp. 743-744. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2004. Review of José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies ([1590] 2002), translated by Frances López-Morillas, in Canadian Journal of History 39 (April 2004), pp. 195-197. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2003. Review of David Carey, Jr., Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives, in American Historical Review 108, 5, (2003), pp. 1495-1496. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2002. Review of D. Graham Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado (2000), in Colonial Latin American Review 11, 1 (2002), pp. 164-165. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2001. Review of Rolena Ardorno and Patrick Charles Pautz, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez (1999), in Journal of Latin American Studies 33, 4 (2001), 877-881. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 2000. Review of David Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate (1998), in Ethnohistory 49, 2 (2002), pp. 468-470. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1999. Review of Robert H. Jackson, ed., Liberals, the Church, and Indian Peasants: Corporate Lands and the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America (1997), in Journal of Latin American Studies 31, 1 (1999), pp. 196-198. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1999. Review of Jeffrey L. Gould, To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (1998), in American Historical Review 104, 4 (1999), pp. 1353-1354. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1999. Review of Alfredo Jiménez, ed., Antropología histórica: La Audiencia de Guatemala en el siglo XVI, in Ethnohistory 46, 4 (1999), pp. 842-844 and Mesoamérica 37 (1999), pp. 258-259 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1998. Review of John W. Verano and Douglas M. Ubelaker, eds., Disease and Demography in the Americas (1992), in Mesoamérica 35 (1998), pp. 313-318 (Spanish). Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1998. Review of William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (1996), in Ecumene 5, 3 (1998), pp. 356-359 and Mesoamérica 35 (1998), pp. 305-309 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1998. Review of Thomas E. Reed and Karen Brandow, The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement (1996), in Labour/Le Travail 41 (1998), pp. 310-313. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1997. Review of Kenneth Mills, Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750, in Canadian Journal of History 32, 3 (1997), pp. 489-490. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1995. Review of Oakah L. Jones, Jr., Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period (1994), in International History Review 17, 3 (1995), pp. 585-587. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1995. Review of Robert H. Jackson, Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 (1994), in American Historical Review 100, 5 (1995), p. 1734. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1994. Review of A.J. Jaffe, The First Immigrants from Asia: A Population History of the North American Indians, in The Canadian Geographer 38, 4 (1994), pp. 380-381. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1994. Review of Allan F. Burns, Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida (1993), in Refuge 13, 10 (1994), pp. 28-29 and Mesoamérica 27 (1994), pp. 203-205 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1994. Review of Norita Vlach, The Quetzal in Flight: Guatemalan Refugee Families in the United States (1992), in Hispanic American Historical Review 74, 3 (1994), pp. 546-547 and Mesoamérica 27 (1994), pp. 203-205 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf.| Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1994. Review of Kevin Gosner, Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion (1992), in Hispanic American Historical Review 74, 1 (1994), pp. 168-169. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1993. Review of Kevin Gosner, Soldiers of the Virgin: The Moral Economy of a Colonial Maya Rebellion (1992), in Mesoamérica 26 (1993), pp. 335-337 (Spanish). Access online index. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1993. Review of Daniel T. Reff, Disease, Depopulation, and Culture Change in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764, in American Historical Review 98, 2 (1993), pp. 612-613. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1993. Review of John K. Chance, Conquest of the Sierra: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca (1989), in Journal of Historical Geography 19, 1 (1993), pp. 100-101 and Mesoamérica 25 (1993) 144-146. Access online. Download pdf. | Access online index. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1991. Review of Grant D. Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier (1989), in Latin American Anthropology Review 3, 2 (1991), p. 79. Access journal online.
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Lovell, W. George. 1991. Review of Paul Sullivan, Unfinished Conversations: Maya and Foreigners Between Two Wars (1989), Mesoamérica 22 (1991), pp. 331-341 (Spanish). Access online index. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1991. Review of Liisa North, Between War and Peace in Central America: Choices for Canada (1990), in Mesoamérica 22 (1991), pp. 357-358 (Spanish). Access online index. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1990. Review of Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (1987), in Journal of Historical Geography 16, 4 (1990), pp. 480-81 and Mesoamérica 19 (1990), pp. 177-179 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1990. Review of Linda A. Newson, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua (1987), in Ethnohistory 37, 1990, pp. 92-93. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1989. Review of Robert A. Pastor, Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua, in Queen’s Quarterly 96, 1 (1989), 198-219 and Mesoamérica 17 (1989), pp. 235-237 (Spanish). Download pdf. | Acceda al índice en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1989. Review of Noam Chomsky, Turning the Tide: The U.S. and Latin America (1987), in Environments 20, 1 (1989), pp. 99-100. Access online index.
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Lovell, W. George. 1989. Review of Robert M. Hill II and John Monaghan, Continuities in Highland Maya Social Organization: Ethnohistory in Sacapulas, Guatemala (1987), in The Americas 45, 4 (1989), pp. 564-567.
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Lovell, W. George. 1988. Review of Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, in Mesoamérica 16 (1986), pp. 421-424 (Spanish). Acceda al índice en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1988. Review of Elías Zamora, Los mayas de las tierras altas en el siglo XVI (1985), in Ethnohistory 35, 1 (1988), pp. 94-96. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1987. Review of Robert G. Williams, Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America (1986), in Queen’s Quarterly 95, 2 (1987), pp. 446-468. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1987. Review of Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America: Colonial Latin America, vols. 1 and 2 (1985). Mesoamérica 13 (1987), pp. 283-294 (Spanish). Acceda al índice en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1987. Review of Lawrence H. Feldman, A Tumpline Economy: Production and Distribution Patterns in Sixteenth-Century Eastern Guatemala (1985), in Hispanic American Historical Review 67, 3 (1987), pp. 512-513. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1987. Review of Adriaan C. Van Oss, Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala (1986), in Hispanic American Historical Review 67, 3 (1987), pp. 511-512. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1987. Review of Karl Sapper, The Verapaz in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Contribution to the Historical Geography and Ethnography of Northeastern Guatemala (1985), in Journal of Historical Geography 13, 2: (1987), pp. 221-222 and Mesoamérica 13 (1987), pp. 294-296 (Spanish). Access online. Download pdf. | Acceda al índice en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1986. Review of Carolyn Hall, Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective, in The Canadian Geographer 30, 4 (1986), pp. 373-374. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1986. Review of Donald R. Hopkins, Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History (1983), in Mesoamérica 12 (1986), pp. 475-478 (Spanish). Acceda al índice en línea.
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Lovell, W. George. 1986. Review of Peter Gerhard, The North Frontier of New Spain (1982), in Mesoamérica 11 (1986), pp. 219-221 (Spanish). Acceda al índice en línea. Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1985. Review of John Grier Varner and Jeannette Johnson Varner, Dogs of the Conquest (1983), in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75, 2 (1985), pp. 287-288. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1985. Review of Lester D. Langley, The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900-1934 (1983), in Queen’s Quarterly 92, 2 (1985), pp. 396-398. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1984. Review of Dan Stanislawski, The Transformation of Nicaragua, 1519-1560 (1983) in Journal of Historical Geography 10, 4 (1984), pp. 442-444. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1984. Review of Murdo J. MacLeod and Robert Wasserstrom, eds., Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica; Essays in the History of Ethnic Relations (1983), in The Americas 41, 2 (1984), pp. 261-263.
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Lovell, W. George. 1984. Review of Timothy E. Anna, Spain and the Loss of America (1983), in Queen’s Quarterly 91, 3 (1984), pp. 715-717 and Mesoamérica 7 (1984), pp. 188-190 (Spanish). Download pdf. | Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1983. Review of Robert M. Carmack, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán: The Evolution of a Highland Guatemalan Kingdom (1981), in Journal of Historical Geography 9, 1 (1983), pp. 82-83. Access online. Download pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1982. Review of Robert M. Carmack, Evolución del reino quiché (1979), in Mesoamérica 3 (1982), pp. 240-244 (Spanish). Descargar pdf.
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Lovell, W. George. 1981. Review of Peter Gerhard, The Southeast Frontier of New Spain (1979), in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70, 4 (1981), pp. 587-589 and Mesoamérica 2 (1981), pp. 224-228 (Spanish). Descargar pdf.
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