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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Samuel G. Inman, and Louis M. Sears. Economic conditions in
the Caribbean area and diplomacy arising from guano in Latin-
America are presented by Prof. Clarence F. Jones, Charles D.
Kepner, and Prof. Roy F. Nichols. Social, educational, and
literary topics are dealt with in chapters contributed by Dr.
Inman, William F. Montavon, Miss Heloise Brainerd, Dr. C. K.
Jones and Dr. J. A. Robertson. Prof. J. F. Rippy, Dr. F. Gil
Borges, and Prof. C. C. Tansill contribute chapters on Latin-
American European relations. Dr. W. R. Manning presents a
chapter on the attitude of the United States toward the insurgent
Spanish colonies.
Only three of the chapters are monographic in character--one
each by Profs. Tansill, Nichols, and Cleven. Aside from these
and two chapters of an academic nature by Dr. C. K. Jones on
literary developments in Latin-America, the other lectures are
of the type that might be expected for presentation to a seminar
of graduate students. In general, the first-named volume makes
no notable contribution or one of permanent value to the
specialist; it will be extremely useful, however, to the general
reader and to the teacher for reading assignment to students of
Hispanic American affairs.
The second of the above-named volumes does not differ in plan
from the first one. Twenty-nine lectures, or chapters, contrib-
uted by twelve specialists, constitute the major portion of the
work, which is concluded by four appendices, contributed by as
many different individuals. The lectures as a whole are not
intended to present a connected history of the important area
under survey. However, since the general subject of the lectures
is much narrower in scope than that in the first volume, there is
evident a much greater unity in the lectures and, correspond-
ingly, more of a permanent contribution than is the case with
the lectures in Volume II. Not the least contribution of the lec-
tures in this volume is that they serve to focus attention upon a
number of knotty and more or less related problems in the
Caribbean.
By way of introduction, Drs. Wilgus and Inman discuss, re-
spectively, in Chapters I and II, the Caribbean in colonial times
and its significance. Political and social life and economic con-
ditions in the Caribbean are discussed in three chapters by
Drs. Inman and C. F. Jones. In four chapters Dr. Leland244
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