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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 12 - Issue 4 - April 1956

Book Reviews

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

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

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.)

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.)

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

Readings in Latin-American Civilization, 1492 to the present. By Benjamin Keen. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Pp. ix, 477. $3.60.)

Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic. A Calendar of the Juan E. Hernández y Dávalos Manuscript Collection, the University of Texas Library. Edited by Carlos Eduardo Castañeda. Compiled by Jack Autrey Dabbs. (México: Editorial Jus, 1954. Pp. xv, 604. Index. Paper.)

Archivo del General Porfirio Díaz. Memorias y Documentos. Prologue and notes by Alberto María Carreño [Colección de Obras Históricas Mexicanas, No. 3]. Volumes XVII, XVIII, XIX. (México: Editorial”Elede” S.A., 1953, 1954, 1955. Pp. 312, 313, 317. Indexes. Paper.)

La Carta a los Españoles Americanos de Don Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzman. By Ruben Vargas UgarteS.J. (Lima: Editorial del CIMP Chorrillos, 1954 [1955]. Pp. xiv, 131. Index of names. Paper.)

A Bibliography of South American Economic Affairs. Articles in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. By Tom B. Jones, Elizabeth Anne Warburton, Anne Kingsley. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Pp. xv, 146. $5.50.)

A History of Latin America. By Hubert Herring. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Pp. xx, 796, xxvi. $6.50.)

La Filosofía en el Perú. Panorama Histórico. By Augusto Salazar Bondy. Trans, by Elizabeth Flower. [“Pensamiento de América” Series]. (Washington, D. G: Unión Panamericana, n.d. [1955]. Pp. 100. $.50.)

Mirage. By Margaret Evans Price. (New York: Library Publishers, 1955. Pp. 322. $3.75.)

Pierre Toussaint. By Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1955. Pp. 257. $3.50.)

The American Southwest. By Natt N. Dodge and Herbert S. Zim. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Pp. 160. Cloth $1.95; paper $1.00.)

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