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Volume 25 - October 1968

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Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Caracas Diary, 1825–1842—A British Diplomat in a Newborn Nation. Edited by Walter Dupouy. (Caracas, Venezuela: Editorial Arte S. A., 1966. Pp. cxii, 1305. n. p.)

San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas. By Robert S. Weddle (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. Pp. xiv, 469. Illus. $8.50.)

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Brazilian Planning: Development Politics and Administration. By Robert T. Daland (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967. Pp. viii, 231. $6.00.)

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The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditures and Social Change Since 1910. By James W. Wilkie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Pp. xviii, 337. $7.50.)

Organized Labor and the Mexican Revolution under Lázaro Cárdenas. By Joe C. Ashby (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. Pp. xii, 350. $7.50.)

The Government Executive of Modern Peru. By Jack W. Hopkins [Second Series #3, Latin American Monographs.] (Gainesville: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Press, 1967. Pp. ix, 141. $3.75. Paperback.)

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In Defense of Neutral Rights. The United States Navy and the Wars of Independence in Chile and Peru. By Edward Baxter Billingsley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967. Pp. x, 266. Notes, bibliography, index. $6.00.)

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Primeras Exploraciones y Poblamiento de Texas (1686-1694). By Lino Gómez CañedoO. F. M. , (Monterrey: Biblioteca del Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 1968. Pp. xxxviii, 348. n. p.)

On the Royal Highways of the Inca: Archaeological Treasures of Ancient Peru. By Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering. Translated from the German by Margaret Brown. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Pp. 311, incl. 205 plates. $17.50.)

Simón Bolívar and Spanish American Independence, 1783–1830. By John J. Johnson with the collaboration of Doris M. Ladd [Anchor Original, #95.] (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1968. Pp. 223. Paper, $1.95.)

Distribución geográfica y organización de las Ordenes religiosas en la Nueva España (Siglo XVI). By Elena Vázquez Vázquez (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1965. Pp. 125. Plus 7 maps in special folder, n. p.)

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The Alamo Chain of Missions. By Marion A. HabigO. F. M. , (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1968. Pp. 304. Illustrations, plans and diagrams. Bibliography. Index. $6.95.)

Civil Service Reform in Brazil: Principles versus Practice. By Lawrence S. Graham [Latin American Monographs # 13.] (Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas Press, 1968. Pp. ix, 233. $6.50.)

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Colonial Art in Mexico. By Manuel Toussaint. Translated by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann. (Austin and London: University of Texas Press, Texas Pan American Series, 1967. Pp. xxvi, 493. $17.50.)

Arts of Ancient Mexico. By Jacques Soustelle. Photographs by Claude Arthaud and F. Hébert-Stevens [A Studio Book.] (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1967. Introduction. Table. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. 206 plates, 17 in color. Pp. 160. $18.50.)

British Honduras: Colonial Dead End, 1859–1900. By Wayne M. Clegern (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. Pp. vii, 214. $4.50.)

Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century. By Charles Gibson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967. Pp. xvi, 800. $8.50.)

The Hummingbird and the Hawk: Conquest and Sovereignty in the Valley of Mexico, 1503–1541. By Robert C. Padden (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1967. Pp. xvi, 319. $6.75.)

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The Economy of Paraguay. By Joseph Pincus. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1968. Pp. xxviii, 517. Tables, maps, appendixes, bibliography. $17.50.)

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