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W. GEORGE LOVELL
Adjunct Professor Emeritus,
Department of Geography at Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC WRITING
BOOK REVIEWS
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
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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