Dartmouth Authors
Leo Spitzer, Associate Professor of History. The Creoles of Sierra. Leone: Responses toColonialism 1870-1945. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. $12.50. This study examines the practice, values, and styles of living which made Creole culture dynamic, and unique, and the intellectual reactions to colonialism. The author shows how the Creoles developed their own ideas and gave them expression, how their British mentors and colonial masters treated them and other Africans, and how Creole political responses became increasingly tied to intellectual ones. Creoles are of particular interest because they were often descended from liberated slaves who had been exposed to Western culture through European education and Christianity.
James Edward Wright, Associate Professor Of History. The Politics of Populism, Dissent inColorado. Yale University Press, 1974, $16.50. Historians and political scientists will find this book invaluable in tracing what happened in Colorado from the 1858 gold rush to the Populist Revolution of the 1890s. The title may not do justice to Wright's attempt to write a political history of Colorado during its first half century and at the same time to show how deep were the roots of the social and economic development of the state. Thus the relation of Populism is traced to political realignment, militant unionism, and the progressive movements of the 20th century.
Carl Bridenbaugh '25. Silas Downer:Forgotten Patriot, His Life and Writings. Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation, $8.95. Author of seven books bearing on the American Revolution, Professor Bridenbaugh throws new light on Downer, the little known author of some key documents in the dissent of the American colonies against Great Britain. The second part of the biography contains six such documents, including the Discourse of 1768, first delivered as an oration from the Liberty Tree in Providence to "a great concourse of People."
Dr. Irving M. Levitas '29. You. Can Beat theOdds on a Heart Attack. Bobbs-Merrili. 1975. $7.95. Excerpted in the May issue.
William Bronk '38. The New World: Essays. Elizabeth Press, Berkeley, 1974. To be reviewed in a later issue.
Vincent Canby '45. Living Quarters. Alfred A. Knopf, 1975, $6.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.
Elliot R. Goodman '45. The Fate of the Atlantic Community. Hard Cover, Praeger, 1975, $27.50; paperback, Academic Market Place (Lavallette, N.J.), 1975, $5.95. To be reviewed in a later issue.
R. P. Momsen Jr. '45 and Janet D. Henshall. A Geography of Brazilian Development. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., £6.50. Optimistic prophecies during nearly five centuries about Brazil's future have been overblown. The authors attempt to explain why development in the past 450 years has been so slow. They examine the problems still blocking progress, such as floods and droughts, eroded and impoverished soil, barriers barring transportation, regional and class inequalities, income disparities, and inadequate population (100 million) in so large a country (3.5 million square miles). Unlike the violent revolutions and wars in Russia, China, the United States, and Europe, Brazilian change is proceding slowly by peaceful means.
J. Clarence Davies III '59 and Barbara S. Davies. The Politics of Pollution, Second Edition. Pegasus, A Division of the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975, Paperback, $1.95. Major air and water pollution acts with surrounding controversies are discussed. There are analyses of forces shaping pollution policies in Congress, the Executive Branch, courts, public opinion, interest groups, and state and local government.
