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Cinco Haciendas Mexicanas. Tres siglos de vida rural en San Luis Potosí (1600–1910). By Jan Bazant. (México: El Colegio de México, 1975. Pp. 226. Appendices. Maps. Graphs. Indices. No price.)

Florida in the American Revolution. By J. Leitch WrightJr. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1975. Pp. xvi, 194. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Illustrations. Index. $7.50.)

Labor and the Ambivalent Revolutionaries: Mexico, 1911–1923. By Ramón Eduardo Ruiz. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. 145. Bibliography. Notes. Index. $10.50.)

La primera República Federal de Mexico (1824-1835). (Un estudio de los partidos políticos en el México independiente). By Michael P. Costeloe. (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1975. Pp. 492. No price.)

La cristiada. Three volumes: La guerra de los cristeros, El conflicto entre la iglesia y el estado, 1926–1929, and Los cristeros. By Jean Meyer. Spanish translation by Aurelio Garzón del Camino. (Mexico: Siglo Venituno Editories, 1974. Pp. 409, 411, & 328. Notes. Tables. No price.)

Fidel Castro’s Personal Revolution in Cuba: 1959–1973. Edited and with an introduction by James Nelson Goodsell. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975. Pp. 349. $3.95.)

Mexico Under Spain, 1521-1556. Society and the Origons of Nationality. By Peggy K. Liss. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. xvi, 229. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $12.50.)

La vida y la historia. Ensayos sobre personas, lugares y problemas. By Jorge Basadre. (Lima: Fondo del Libro del Banco Industrial del Peru, 1975. Pp. 612. Indices. Hardcover, 720 soles.) - Conversaciones. By Pablo Macera and Jorge Basadre. (Lima: Mosca Azul, 1974. Pp. 180. Paper, 100 soles.)

Italian Intervention In The Spanish Civil War. By John F. Coverdale. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. xxi, 455. Appendix. Tables. Maps. Notes. Index. $18.50.)

Markets In Oaxaca. Edited by Scott Cook and Martin Diskin. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976. Pp. xx, 329. Appendix. Tables. Maps. Glossary Notes. References. Index. $9.95.)

Negro Slavery In Latin America. By Rolando Mellafe. Translated by J.W.S. Judge. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 180. Bibliography. Index. $11.50.)

Austrialia Franciscana. Volumes V and VI. Edited by Celsus Kelly,O.F.M. and Gerard Bushell,O.F.M. (Franciscan Historical Studies, Australia, in Collaboration with Archivo Ibero Americano, Madrid, 1971-1973. Pp. 261; 263. No price.)

Tradition and Adaptation: Life in a Modern Yucatan Maya Village. By Irwin Press. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975. Pp. xi, 224. Map. Photos. Diagrams, Appendix I, II. Index. $15.00.)

Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Eugene D. Genovese. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xv, 556. Index. $20.00, cloth; $9.75, paper.)

Gunboat Diplomacy in the Wilson Era: The U.S. Navy in Haiti, 1915–1916. By David Healy. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. Pp. 268. Index. Photos. Map.)

Notes Historiques: Aportació a la historia de Soller. By Francisco Perez i Ferrer. (Palma de Mallorca: Graficas Miramar, 1974. Pp. 250. Paper, 300 pts.)

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The Latin American Policy of Warren G. Harding. By Kenneth J. Grieb. (Forth Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 223. Bibliography. Index. $5.00.)

The Japanese and Peru, 1873–1973. By C. Harvey Gardiner. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 202. Notes. Bibliography. $12.50.)

Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Brent Toplin. ([Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. Number 17]. Westport, Connecticut and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 450. Maps. Tables. Index. $17.95.)

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