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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Capistrano de Abreu. Ensaio biobibliográfico. By Helio Vianna. [Ministerio da Educação e Cultura. Serviço de Documentação] (Rio de Janeiro: Imprenta Nacional, 1955. Pp. 126. Paper.)

Book Reviews - The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia. By David Bushnell. (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1954. Pp. ix, 381. Bibliography. Index. No price given.)

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Padre Pro. Modern Apostle and Martyr. By Fanchón Royer. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1954. Pp. 248. $3.50.)

The Western Hemisphere Idea: its Rise and Decline. By Arthur P. Whitaker. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1954. Pp. 194. $3.00.)

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The Caribbean: Its Economy. Edited by A. Curtis Wilgus. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1954. Pp. xix, 286. $4.00.)

Zapotec. By Helen Augur. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1954. Pp. 279. Illus. $4.50.)

The political and economic activities of the Jesuits in the La Plata region: the Hapsburg era. By Magnus Mörner. (Stockholm: Library and Institute of Ibero-American Studies, 1953. Pp. xv, 711. $5.50.)

Jamaica Española. By Francisco Morales Padrón. (Sevilla: Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1952 [1954]. Pp. xxx, 495.)

Arid Domain: The Santa Fe Railway and its Western Land Grant. By William S. Greever. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1954. Pp. 184. $4.00.)

Diálogo sobre a conversão do gentio. By Manuel da Nóbrega. Edited by Serafim Leite,S.J. (Lisboa: Comissão do IV Centenário da Fundação de São Paulo, 1954. Pp. 133. Illus.)

Boletín del Instituto Riva-Aguero. I Año, número 1, 1951–1952 (Lima: Universidad Católica del Perú, 1953. Pp. 648.)

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A Guide to the Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Documentos para la Historia de California, 1780–1875. By Doris Marion Wright. (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953. Pp. viii, 264. $4.00.)

La Iglesia, Modeladora de la Nacionalidad. By Julio Tobar Donoso. (Quito: La Prensa Católica, 1953 [1954]. Pp. xvi, 398.)

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