México y las conferencias panamericana is an indispensable book for anyone doing research on Mexican foreign affairs and inter-American relations from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. More than a dozen scholars ably summarize the main developments of the eight Pan-American conferences held during that time: 1889 in Washington, 1901 in Mexico City, 1906 in Rio de Janeiro, 1910 in Buenos Aires, 1923 in Santiago, 1928 in Havana, 1933 in Montevideo, and 1938 in Lima. The book stems from a 1998 course taught at El Colegio de México, in which Carlos Marichal asked a group of 14 doctoral students to explore the archival collections of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) with an eye on said conferences. The eight Pan-American meetings covered in the book, however, receive unequal treatment. Some are well documented and analyzed, as seen in the 36 pages devoted to the 1933 Montevideo conference. Other meetings...
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