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Volume 40 - April 1984

Book Reviews

The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition: 1870-1890. By Thomas F. O'Brien. (New York: New York University Press, 1983. Pp. xv, 211. $30.00.)

The Fall of Natural Man. The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. By Anthony Pagden. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. ix, 256. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.50)

The Royal Treasuries of the Spanish Empire in America. By John J. TePaske and Herbert S. Klein. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press; 1982. 3 vols. Pp. xxvi, 563; xxiv, 422; xxvi, 407. Set, $135.00; vol. 1, $55.00; vol. 2, $45.00; vol. 3, $45.00.)

Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View. Edited by Robert Brody and Charles Rossman. (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 221. Chronology. $26.00.)

Essays in the Political, Economic and Social History of Colonial Latin America. Edited by Karen Spalding. [Occasional Papers and Monographs No. 3] (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Latin American Studies Program, 1982. Pp. xx, 153. Tables. Notes. No price.)

South America and the World Economy from Independence to 1930. By Bill Albert. (London: The Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1983. Pp. 96. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $6.95.)

Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834. By Mary Turner. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Pp. 223. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.05.)

Florilegio Medicinal. By Juan de Esteyneffer. Edited by María del Carmen Anzures. (Mexico: Academia Nacional de Medicina, 1978 (orig. 1712). 2 vol. pp. xxiii, 973. No price.)

Buenos Aires: 400 Years. Edited by Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. xxii, 192. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $20.00.)

Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain. By Ruth Pike. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. 204. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.00.)

Spain and the Loss of America. By Timothy E. Anna. (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press. 1983. Pp. xxiv, 343. Chronology. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.50.)

The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919. By Peter Blanchard. (Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 214. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $23.95.)

Tratado de Metafísico: Teoría de la “Habencia.” By Agustín Basave Fernández del Valle. (México: Editorial Limusa, 1982. Prólogo de Ismael Quiles, S.J. Pp. 444. Index of Authors. No price.)

Yesterday's Soldiers. European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940. By Frederick M. Nunn. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 366. Notes. Index. $26.95.)

In Defense of La Raza: The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Community, 1929 to 1936. By Francisco E. Balderrama. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 137. Bibliography. Index. $14.95.)

Haiti, Land of Poverty. By Robert J. Tata (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982. Pp. xi, 127. Tables, Maps. Select Bibliography. Index. $8.00.)

From Pale to Pampa: A Social History of the Jews of Buenos Aires. By Eugene F. Sofer. (New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 1982. Pp. xii, 165. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.50.)

Across the Border: Rural Development in Mexico and Recent Migration to the United States. By Harry E. Cross and James M. Sandos. (Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1981. Pp. xix, 198. Tables. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. $12.00 paper.)

Historia de la agricultura argentina a fines del siglo xix (1890-1900). By Noemí Girbal de Blacha. (Buenos Aires: Fundación para la Educación, la ciencia y la Cultura, 1982. Pp. 295. No price.)

The North Frontier of New Spain. By Peter Gerhard. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 454. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $60.00.)