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account of the achievements in Negro education, library service,
demonstrations, and health services by public agencies with the
cooperation and aid of such foundations as the General Education
Board, the Jeanes and Slater Funds, the Julius Rosenwald Fund,
and the Carnegie Corporation. The author's long association
with philanthropic agencies especially fits him to write of their
achievements.
CORAL H. TULLIS
The University of Texas
Rich and accurate in detail, lucid in style, and impartial in
interpretation, A History of the Americas from Discovery to
Nationhood, by Vera Brown Holmes, presents a synthesis of the
history of the Americas to about 1830 as it unfolded under the
four principal colonial powers, England, France, Spain, and Por-
tugal. It covers the geographical settings; the native races; dis-
covery, exploration, and colonization; and colonial life-political,
economic, social, and religious-terminating appropriately with
the wars of independence and establishment of new nations.
Comprehensiveness is further evidenced by adequate treatment
of such neglected phases as the Portuguese colonial system in
Brazil, the operations of the Hudson Bay Company, international
rivalry in the West Indies, and the seigneurial pattern of New
France. Although the materials are not new, they are integrated
throughout by stimulating comparisons and contrasts. In addi-
tion, Dr. Holmes has buttressed the narrative with excellent
maps and illustrations and a selective bibliography.
As a well-knitted correlation of a vast amount of scattered
data, A History of the Americas will be a welcome reference to
students and teachers. It will also serve as an interesting refresher
to the general reader who has mastered the basic facts and
chronology of the history of the Western Hemisphere.
FRANK A. KNAPP, JR.
Evelyn H. Knowlton's Pepperell's Progress: History of a Cotton
Textile Company, 1844-1945, number thirteen in the Harvard
Studies in Business History series, is a biography of a textile
business which, for almost one hundred years, has experienced532
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