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...Herminio Portell Vilá Historia de la Enmienda Platt—Una Interpretación de la Realidad Cubana . By de Leuchsenring Emilio Roig . 2 Vols. ( Havana : Cultural, S. A. , 1935 . Pp. XVI , 304 ; XII , 363 . $2.00 .) Paper covers. Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...

...Leland H. Jenes Proceso histórico de la Enmienda Platt (1897-1934) . By Sterling M. Márquez . Prólogo de Lufriu René . ( Habana : Academia de la Historia de Cuba , 1941 . Pp. xxxv , 462 . Illus.) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Jules R. Benjamin Cuba Under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934 . By Pérez Louis A. Jr. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 1986 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 410 . Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Like many scholars...

...Robert S. Platt Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 By Pan American Highway through South America . By Lanks Herbert C. . ( New York : D. Appleton-Century Co. , 1942 . Pp. 205 . Illus. $5.00 .) ...

...Robert S. Platt The Face of South America: An Aerial Traverse . By Rich John L. . ( New York : American Geographical Society , 1942 . Pp. xvii , 301 ; 325 half-tones, 8 maps . $4.00 .) Copyright 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ...

...Robert S. Platt Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Südamerika im Spiegel Seiner Städte . By Wilhelme Herbert . Ham­burger Romantische Studien, Ibero-Amerikanische Reihe , vol. XXIII . Hamburg : Kommissionsverlag Cram, De Gruyter and Co , 1952 . Pp. 450 . Illus...

...D. C. M. Platt Australia and Argentina: On Parallel Paths . By Duncan Tim and Fogarty John . Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 1984 . Maps. Illustrations. Statistical Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 203 . Paper. $22.75 . Argentina and Australia: Essays...

...Frank Safford If the book is weakened by unsystematic use of statistics, its strength lies in its shrewd perception of the institutional realities underlying the statistics. Platt is not the sort of historian who draws from statistics broad macroeconomic trends and then guesses at hazard what...

...D. M. P. Finance, Trade, and Politics in British Foreign Policy, 1815-1914 . By Platt D. C. M. . London , 1968 . Oxford University Press . Footnotes. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xl , 454 . $13.45 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 A major...

... of titles to lands, including major portions of Indian communal holdings. This occurred on so large a scale that Platt refers to it as “the first agrarian reform,” a drastic series of laws that he traces in detail from 1874 to 1902. The traditional communities were not utterly dissolved, but “surplus lands...

...Philip S. Foner One shortcoming in this excellent work is that public opinion in Cuba is treated inadequately. The labor militancy and protests of 1918 and 1919 are mentioned, and their influence on invocation of the intervention clause of the Platt Amendment made clear. But no attention is paid...

... examine what happens to local entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, the volume is extremely useful to the specialist—economist, historian, or political scientist—interested in problems of political and economic development in Latin America prior to 1930. D. C. M. Platt has edited a series of essays which...

.... Pushing back the beginning of Argentina’s economic demise to the early decades of the century is an important issue for specialists. Other contributions focus on important aspects of the Argentine economy often overlooked. Platt, for example, emphasizes the importance of domestic rather than foreign...

...Frank Salomon Qaraqara-Charka: Mallku, Inka, y rey en la provincia de Charcas (siglos XV – XVII): Historia antropológica de una confederación aymara . By Platt Tristan , Bouysse-Cassagne Thérèse , and Harris Olivia , “con el aliento de Thierry Saignes.” Lima : Instituto...

.... 52 O. H. Platt, “The Solution of the Cuban Problem,” The World’s Work , 2 (May, 1901), 732. 12 Adjutant General H. C. Corbin to General H. W. Lawton, August 16, 1898, RCAP , II, 1098; Hamilton V. Bail, “The Military Government of Cuba, 1898-1902” (unpublished manuscript, Hoover Institution...

... more opposition in Cuba to the Platt Amendment than Pérez would have us believe. It is strange that he does not even mention Juan Gualberto Gómez, the Black delegate to the Cuban Constitutional Convention from Santiago, who led the opposition to ratification of the Platt Amendment. In short, Pérez’s...

... of the participants focused on very specific geographical areas (Larson and León, Lewinski, Platt, Langer, and others) at widely scattered points on the calendar, their findings coincide at several points. Perhaps the most significant point of correspondence relates to one also made by George Foster for Tzintzuntzan...

... on the larger subject has interest for Latin Americanists. Like the book of D. C. M. Platt noted above, these two represent the latest thinking of mature scholars, although they rest less obviously on weighty scholarship. May’s essay, a byproduct of the research which produced his earlier Imperial...

... the interrelationship between domestic weakness and international vulnerability. She is less concerned with the motivation of the European governments, and students of this question will still rely on D. C. M. Platt’s “Allied Coercion of Venezuela, 1902-3—A Reassessment” ( Inter-American Economic Affairs , XV, 4...

... in the Caribbean was shaped in large part by the postwar experience in Cuba” (p. 17). It is, therefore, unfortunate that his discussion of the Platt Amendment is superficial, and that he fails to come to grips with the major reasons for Cuban objections to having the amendment forced upon them. Leonard Wood...