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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 6 - October 1949

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The Norse Discoveries and Explorations in America. By Edward Reman. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. Pp. xi, 201. $3.50.)

The Mining Guild of New Spain and Its Tribunal General, 1770-1821. By Walter Howe. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949. Pp. 508. $7.50.)

The Inter-American Regional System. By Charles G. Fenwick. (New York: The Declan X. McMullen Company, Inc., 1949. Pp. 96. $1.50.)

Folklore de la República Dominicana. By Manuel José Andrade. (Ciudad Trujillo: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Santo Domingo, Vol LIV, dos tomos, 1948. Pp. vii, 1–456, and vii, 457–624.)

Una Figura Centroamericana: Dr. Fray José Liendo y Goicoechea, O.F.M. By Lázaro LamadridO.F.M. (San Salvador: Ediciones “El Serafín de Asís”, 1948. Pp. 59, 1 plate.)

High Jungle. By William Beebe. (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. Pp. 379. Illustrated. $4.50.)

The Condor and the Cows. A South American Travel-Diary. By Christopher Isherwood. Photographs by William Caskey. (New York: Random House, Inc., 1949. Pp. 200. $3.50.)

San Martín y el Perú: Planteamiento Doctrinario. By José Agustín de la Puente Candamo. (Lima: Editorial Lumen, 1948. Pp. xviii, 359.)

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Colima of New Spain in the Sixteenth Century. By Carl Sauer. [Ibero-Americana, no. 29] (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. Pp. vii, 104. Maps, plates. $2.00.)

Las Bulas Alejandrinas de 1493 y la Teoría Política del Papado Medieval. Estudio de la Supremacia Papal sobre Islas, 1091–1493. By Luis Weckmann. (Mexico: Editorial Jus, 1949. Pp. 309.)

The Exchange Media of Colonial Mexico. By Wilbur T. Meek. (New York: Columbia University, King’s Crown Press, 1948. Pp. vi, 114. $2.50.)

Explorer of the Human Brain. The Life of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934). By Dorothy F. Cannon. With a Memoir by Sir Charles S. Sherrington. (New York: Henry Schuman, Inc., 1949. Pp. XV, 303. $4.00.)

Documenta. Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Historia. Año I, Número 1. (Lima, Peru: Sociedad de Historia Peruana, 1948. Pp. 593.)

Le Cardinal François Ximénès. Le Richelieu de l’Espagne. By Marcel Brion. (Paris: Editions Franciscaines, 1947. Pp. 132.)

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Index to Volume VI: July, 1949 through April, 1950

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Dr. Juan Guiteras. [Vidas Ejemplares de Médicos Cubanos.] By César Rodríguez Expósito. (Habana: Editorial Cubanacan, 1947. Pp. xiv, 344.)

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