...George I. Blanksten Applications of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, 1948-1956 . With a Discussion of the Inter-American System of Peace and Security and Its Operation Within the World System . Prefatory note by Fenwick Charles G. . Washington, D. C. , 1957 . Pan...

... of 1889, together with major supplementary laws and decree-laws through 1952. The volume also contains a prefatory essay by Carlos Juan Zavala Rodríguez, which presents a historical sketch of commercial legislation in the Argentine, and some notes on areas of the code in which custom and usage may have...

... intellectual history. Particularly informative are the chapters dealing with the colonial period and those treating key figures in the more recent history of ideas, e. g., José Carlos Mariátegui, Francisco Romero, Samuel Ramos, Octavio Paz. The synoptic format of the book, together with its prefatory...

... to create a book for the general reader.” They have also abridged “where details became repetitious or meaningless in the larger story of Cortés’ exploits.” In keeping with the editorial design of appealing to the general reader is the flamboyant tone of the prefatory material. The editors assert...

... be a single, long prefatory essay. The editors are thus able to provide the background and insights that enable the reader to grasp more quickly the subtle nuances of the letters themselves, sometimes even the motivations of their writers. The effect upon the reader is one of immediacy to the colonial...

..., the prefatory note does not place the book in its historical context and contains information primarily of interest to librarians and collectors of rare books. Second, republication of the original erratum page fails to fulfill its purpose since the pagination of this edition has been altered to an extent...

... their participation in the labor disturbance. Two prefatory chapters relate the grueling and dangerous nature of mine work, and consider the literature on other mineworker movements in history. The following chapters trace and analyze the causes and course of the strike itself. Two subsequent chapters offer...

... discussed. A prefatory section, equally unassuming, is informative concerning Maya civilization and Maya architecture in general and provides some bibliography. Only a relatively small number of Maya sites may be treated in this way, for in most instances the evidence of the extant ruins is insufficient...

... Church in particular and Christianity in general while trying to remove religion from politics and develop the coexistence theory of social behavior. The author acknowledges the encyclical of Pope John XXIII on Pacem in Terris in the prefatory note but despite his protestations to the contrary he...

... and the Escritos del Libertador . Every volume begins with a preface explaining the scope and purpose of the documents included, the selection criteria, and a short discussion of the historical context and significance of each piece. Following the prefatory remarks Grases and Pérez Vila have placed a “Sumario...

...Hobart Spalding, Jr. Argentina . By Ferns H. S. . New York , 1969 . Frederick A. Praeger . Nations of the Modern World . Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Index . Pp. 263 . $7.50 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 In his prefatory remarks H. S. Ferns advises...

... the masterworks, Blacker, neither critic nor historian, has written an exceedingly pedestrian prefatory piece. Despite a spate of recent publications on Prescott, most of which he lists and comments upon in his bibliography, Blacker falls into numerous errors. For example: Prescott did not lose the sight of his...

.... The Mesoamerican worlds of Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec representations can be seen to have been quite distinctive from those of European cartographic models with regularized features of orientation, scale, and symbolization. Her prefatory comparison and parsing of the Cortés and Codex Mendoza representations...

... to the works of France’s Maurice Duverger and of the late Sigmund Neumann, two astute observers who nonetheless scorned what they regarded as “non-parties” in Latin America. In his prefatory statement the author sets as his purpose a descriptive analysis of Christian Democratic parties in the hemisphere...

... of organization is not easy, and several items could justifiably appear under more than one heading. Duncan and Goodsell also strain for thematic cohesion. Their prefatory statement, for one, might raise at least a few eyebrows when they maintain that the idea of man’s responsibility for society, once grasped...

.... The author’s method is to give the reader prefatorial guidance in what to look for, followed by a total exposure to his subject. He begins by pointing out that of all Latin American countries Bolivia seemed for many years the least revolutionary and among the most backward. Usually, political ideas, literary...

... an intellectual desert. This book is a collection of essays by several scholars. Its contents are: a “Prefatory Note” by Arthur P. Whitaker and an “Introduction” by Federico de Onís; “The Dual Role of Latin America in the Enlightenment” by Arthur P. Whitaker; “Traces of French Enlightenment in Colonial...

... of a different kind. In fact, perhaps surprisingly after this prefatorial show of conviction, Abulafia is properly skeptical of Columbus’s interpretations of what he saw and thought he was told on his first two voyages through the Caribbean. Drawing more than he realizes from deluded postcolonial critics...

... are prefatory to her thorough treatment of ceremonies and perceptions of death and the afterlife that comprises the second half of the book. She enumerates the testaments’ religious invocations, discovering rather few to the Virgin in any of her incarnations, including only three to the Virgin of Guadalupe...