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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 12 - October 1955

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Brazil: People and Institutions. By T. Lynn Smith : (Revised edition; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1954. Pp. xix, 704. Ulus. $7.50.)

Colombia: Monumentos históricos y arqueológicos. 2 volumes. By Luis Duque Gómez. (Mexico: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 1955. Pp. 554.)

Andres Lamas: Escritos. Tomo III. Edited by Ariosto D. González. [Instituto Histórico y Geográfico del Uruguay, Biblioteca de Autores Nacionales.] (Montevideo: Imprenta Nacional, 1952. Pp. ci, 616.)

Probing Our Past. By Merle Curti. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. Pp. xii, 294. Index. $4.00.)

Panamá y los Estados Unidos. By Ernesto Castillero PimentelDoctor . (Panamá: Cincuecentenario de la Fundación de la República de Panamá, 1953. Pp. cxli, 336.)

Ecuador, Country of Contrasts. By Lilo Linke. (London & New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1954. Pp. ix, 173. $2.50.)

Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles. By LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen. [The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875. Volume One] (Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954. Pp. 377. $9.50.)

Florida Fiasco: Rampant Rebels on the Georgia-Florida Border, 1810–1815. By Rembert W. Patrick. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1954. Pp. 359. $5.00.)

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Testimonios auténticos acerca de los Protomártires del Japón. Edited, with a bibliographical essay, by Agustín Millares Carlo and Julián Calvo. Prologue by Eduardo Enrique Rios. (México: Privately printed, 1954. Pp. ccxxxix, 357.)

El Reformismo Ilustrado en Puerto Rico. By Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo. (“Asomante” [Puerto Rico] y El Colegio de México, 1953. Pp. 259.)

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La Diputación Oriental a la Asamblea General Constituyente, 1814–1815. By Agustín Beraza. [Instituto Historico y Geográfico del Uruguay.] (Montevideo: Imprenta Nacional, 1953. Pp. xv, 186. Illus.)

Martí en Guatemala. By David Vela. (Guatemala: Editorial del Ministerio de Educación Pública, 1954. Pp. 366.)

In and Out the Andes. By Sister Maria del Rey. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955. Pp. 281. $3.95.)

El plan Cisneros-Las Casas para la reformación de las Indias (Bartolomé de las Casas. Vol. I: Delgado de Cisneros para la reformación de las Indias, 1516–1517. By Manuel Giménez Fernández. (Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, 1953. Pp. xxvi, 763. Illus.)

Economic History of the United States. By Howard R. Smith. (New York: Ronald Press, 1955. Pp. 763. Maps. $6.00.)

The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization. By J. Eric S. Thompson. [Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 39.] (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. Pp. xii, 287. Illus. $5.00.)

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