...Richard L. Kagan Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507–1582 . By Maltby William S. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Epilogue. Index . Pp. xviii , 377 . Cloth . $29.50 . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

...Stephen J. Homick Society, Economy, and Defense in Seventeenth-Century Peru: The Administration of the Count of Alba de Liste (1655-61) . By Bradley Peter T. . Liverpool : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool , 1992 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography . 170 pp...

...J. León Helguera Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 On July 17, 1988, just three days short of the 20th of July, a national and a local holiday which he had done so much to commemorate, Guillermo Hernández de Alba died in Bogotá, aged 82. A native Bogotano, Don Guillermo...

...Charles A. Hale The Mexicans. The Making of a Nation . By Alba Víctor . New York , 1967 . Frederick A. Praeger . Illustrations. Maps. Index . Pp. vii , 268 . $6.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Víctor Alba, a prolific Spanish-born Mexican free-lance...

...Roger Hamburg The specialist can read this volume with some profit after examining more analytical, dispassionate works like Jacques Lambert’s. Alba’s documentation and knowledge of sources are impressive, perhaps overbearing, and there are many nuggets to be mined if one will devote the time...

...J. Fred Rippy Alliance without Allies. The Mythology of Progress in Latin America . By Alba Víctor . Translated by Pearson John . New York , 1965 . Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers . Notes. Index . Pp. vii , 244 . $6.95 . Copyright 1968 by Duke University Press 1968...

...Ben G. Burnett Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America . By Alba Víctor . Stanford , 1968 . Stanford University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 404 . $12.50 . Still, the balance of the book is overwhelmingly...

...Robert E. Scott The Latin Americans . By Alba Víctor . New York , 1969 . Frederick A. Praeger . Notes. Index . Pp. viii , 392 . $10.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 The Latin Americans is really a trade book, and should not be reviewed according...

...Samuel Shapiro Los Subamericanos . By Alba Víctor . México , 1964 . B. Costa-Amic, Editor . Notes . Pp. 324 . Paper. Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Víctor Alba’s activities as a journalist and scholar place him in the tradition of the pensador —facile...

...Stanley G. Payne Spanish Marxism versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M . By Alba Víctor and Schwartz Stephen . New Brunswick : Transaction Books , 1988 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 323 . Cloth . $44.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press...

...Alfredo E. Lattes The Population of Mexico: Trends, Issues, and Policies . Edited by Alba Francisco . Translated by Urquidi Marjory Mattingly . New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books , 1982 . Tables. Notes. Figures. Index . Pp. xii , 127 . Cloth . $24.95 . Copyright...

.... He claimed to have been a page of the Duchess of Alba and Manuel Godoy in Madrid and to be now on a journey to reunite with his parents in Cuba. His presence in Martinique was involuntary, he explained. In May 1808, French privateers captured the schooner on which he was traveling and coerced him...

...Peter Klarén Peru . By Alba Victor . Boulder , 1977 . Westview Press . Notes . Pp. vii , 245 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The number of general books published on Peru during the past decade—more than a half dozen by my count—calls...

...Warren Dean Las ideas sociales contemporáneas en México . By Alba Víctor . México , 1960 . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Colección Tierra Firme, Historia de las Ideas Contemporáneas, VII . Bibliography, Index . Pp. 473 . Paper. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962...

...Harry Stark La política de irrigación en México . By Alba Adolfo Orive . México , 1960 . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Sección de Obras de Economía . Maps. Illustrations. Tables . Pp. 292 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The rain may fall upon the just...