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...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...

...Joshua Frens-String In 2004, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, standing with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, launched a new regional initiative. A response to the US-backed idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) sought...

...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 Nationalists without Nations. The Oligarchy Versus the People in Latin America . By Alba Víctor . New York , 1968 . Frederick A. Praeger . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 248 . $7.00 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Víctor...

...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 Still, the balance of the book is overwhelmingly on the positive side; Víctor Alba’s presentation of rich new data and insightful interpretations regarding a fascinating slice of group politics in Latin America can only expand his already large circle of admirers. The reviewer...

...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...

... with them. He said that his service began three months after the Duchess of Alba died (around September or October 1802) and ended three years later (around 1805). After this point his chronological narrative loses its detail; he leaves his whereabouts unaccounted for from 1806 until May 1808. His stated...

...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...