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Volume 12 - October 1955

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Historia de la Nación Cubana. 10 vols. By Emeterio S. Santovenia et al. (Habana: Editorial Historia de la Nación Cubana, S. A., 1952 [i.e. 1953]. Pp. xviii, 368; viii, 326; viii, 394; viii, 418; viii, 375, map; viii, 463; viii, 484; viii, 393; viii, 464; viii, 485. Illus.)

Fontes da História da Igreja Católica no Brasil. By José Carlos de Macedo Soares. [Reprint from Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, vol. 220, Julho-Setembro, 1953.] (Rio de Janeiro, 1954. Pp. 338.)

The Sage of Canudos. By Lucien Marchal. Translated by Charles Duff. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1954. Pp. 381. $3.95.)

The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. By J. Lee Stambaugh and Lillian J. Stambaugh. (San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1954. Pp. xiv, 344. $4.50.)

The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia, 1570–1572. By Clifford M. Lewis,S.J. and Albert J. Loomie,S.J. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1953. Pp. 294. Illustrations. $7.50.)

Apache Kinship Systems. By Robert N. Bellah. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. Pp. 151. $2.50.)

Colección de documentos para la historia de la formación social de Hispanoamérica, 1493–1810. Volume I. Edited by Richard Konetzke. [Instituto Jaime Balmes.] (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953. Pp. 669. Indexes. Paper.)

Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period. By Fray Angélico Caávez. With illustrations by José Cisneros. (Santa Fe: Louis Schifani for the author and the Historical Society of New Mexico, 1954. Pp. 339. $7.50.)

The Maya Katun Prophecies of the Books of Chilam Balam, Series I. By Ralph L. Roys. [Contributions to American Anthropology and History, No. 57.] (Washington, D. C: Carnegie Institution, 1954.)

Iberoamérica. Su Evolución Política, Socio-económica, Cultural e Internacional. By Jesús de Galíndez. (New York: Las Américas Publishing Company, 1954. Pp. xv, 620. índice alfabético de Personajes, $10.00.)

Paraguay: A Riverside Nation. By George Pendle. (London and New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1954. Pp. 115. $2.50.)

The Catholic Indian Missions and Grant’s Peace Policy, 1870–1884. By Peter J. Rahill. [Studies in American Church History, Vol. XLI] (Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1953. Pp. xx, 396. $4.25.)

People in Ejidos: A Visit to the Cooperative Farms of Mexico. By Henrik F. Infield and Koka Freier. Foreword by Clarence Senior. [International Library of the Sociology of Cooperation, II] (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1954. $3.00.)

Anselm Weber, O.F.M., Missionary to the Navaho, 1898–1921. By Robert L. Wilken,O.F.M. (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1955. Pp. xiv, 255. $4.50.)

Bishop Tamarór’s Visitation of New Mexico, 1760. Edited by Eleanor B. Adams. [Publications in History, Vol. XV.] (Albuquerque: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1954. Pp. 113. Paper. $2.25.)

Yuman Indian Agriculture. Primitive Subsistence on the Lower Colorado and Gila Rivers. By Edward F. Castetter and Willis H. Bell. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1951. Pp. 274.)

History of St. Meinrad Archabbey, 1854–1954. By Albert Kleber,O.S.B. [American Benedictine Academy. Historical Studies. Monasteries and Convents. No. 1] (St. Meinrad: Grail Publications, 1954. Pp. xii, 540. $7.50.)

El Santo que libertó una raza: San Pedro Claver, S.J., esclavo de los esclavos negros. Su vida y su época, 1580–1654. By Angel ValtierraS.J. (Bogotá: Imprenta Nacional, 1954. Pp. xxi, 908. Illus.)

The Annals of the Cakchiquels. Translated from the Cakchiquel by Adrián Recinos and Delia Goetz. Title of the Lords of Totonicapán. Translated from the Quiché into Spanish by Dionisio José Chonay. English version by Goetz Delia. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. Pp. ix, 217. $3.75.)

Amazon Town. A Study of Man in the Tropics. By Charles Wagley. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953. Pp. 305. Illus. Cloth. $5.00.)

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