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A volume of essays by Mesoamerican scholars on topics ranging from Zapotec archaeology to Cuicatec irrigation and Mixtec codices to Aztec ethnohistory. Authors use a direct historical approach, the comparative method, or develop models that contribute to ethnological and archaeological theory. Contributors: J. Chance, G. Feinman, K.V. Flannery, F. Hicks, R. Hunt, M. Lind, J. Marcus, J. Monaghan, J. Paddock, E. Redmond, M. Romero Frizzi, M.E. Smith, C. Spencer, and J. Zeitlin.

Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the words of eminent historian José Honório Rodrigues, "No one person influenced the Brazilian historical process as much as Carlos Lacerda from 1945 to 1968."

In this volume, the first of a two-volume biography, Professor Dulles paints a portrait of a rebellious youth, who had the willfulness of his prominent father and who crusaded for Communism before becoming its most outspoken foe. Recalling Lacerda's rallying cry, "Brazil must be shaken up," Dulles traces the career of the journalist whose unsparing attacks on the men in power led authorities to imprison him and employ thugs who pummeled him physically. The story covers events in which Lacerda helped alter Brazil, such as the redemocratization in 1945 and his revelation of scandals in high places in the early 1950s. An unsuccessful attempt by government men to murder him in 1954 led to the suicide of President Getulio Vargas in 1954.

Lacerda's spirited oratory helped him become Brazil's most popular congressman, but it scared the rulers of Brazil and they prohibited the broadcast of his speeches after he returned from exile in 1956. Their effort to deprive him of his mandate stirred the entire nation and culminated in one of the most dramatic sessions ever held in the Chamber of Deputies.

Dulles, who knew Lacerda well and had access to his papers, sheds light on Lacerda the man, ardent in courtship and in all his undertakings, intellectually restless, and scornful of routine and mediocrity. Lacerda had a vitriolic pen that made bitter enemies, but, as disclosed in these pages, his courage and incorruptibility attracted an enthusiastic following, evident in the landslide election victories that brought him seats on Rio de Janeiro's city council and in the federal Congress.

Hilary of Poitiers (d. 367), famous for his role in the Trinitarian debates of the fourth century, was a key figure in the emergence of Western, Latin theology and biblical exegesis. His writings reflect his deep engagement with the major Greek thinkers of his time as well as his distinctive approach to the moral and spiritual meaning of Scripture. His extensive treatment of the Psalms, translated here into English for the first time, is the earliest that survives from the Latin West. The work, which Hilary composed between 364 and his death in 367, reflects his mature theology, comprising an Instructio or introduction, as well as commentary on fifty-seven Psalms (1, 2, 9, 13, 14, 51–69, 91, 119 to 150; LXX numbering) and an extended treatise on Psalm 118. While the Commentaries have received relatively little scholarly attention, they reward close reading. They reflect not only Hilary’s own keen interest in the linguistic and theological features of the biblical text, but also his debts to the traditions of interpretation that were circulating among the pro-Nicene thinkers of his time. Close study of this work reveals how Hilary supplemented his own earlier methods of figurative exegesis by engaging Greek sources, especially the thought of Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 255), and by incorporating insights from his developing pro-Nicene theology. Although Hilary attends to the historical meaning of the Psalms, he regularly views Christ as the true author of the prayers. Thus, the Commentaries are closely linked to his Christological and Trinitarian writings, as well as to his theology of kenosis and deification.