GALDAMES, LUIS. A History of Chile. Pp. xviii, 565. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. $5.00

• Date: 01 May 1942
• DOI: 10.1177/000271624222100154
• Published date: 01 May 1942
• Subject Matter: Articles

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tion. Such an educational task calls for a
grasp of the information.
It does prove
peculiar type of administrator and teacher.
this, but it may be wondered whether that
He will have to be humble, yet farseeing,
is sufhcient ground for publication.
and to work for ends broader than national-
LLOYD H. FISHER
ism and racial distinction. The author pays
Berkeley, California
high tribute to the sane and far-reaching
recommendations of the Phelps-Stokes and
GALDAMES, LUIS. A History of Chile. Pp.
other commissions which have studied na-
xviii, 565. Chapel Hill: The University
tive needs and made similar recommenda-
of North Carolina Press, 1941. $5.00.
tions. Nigeria he thinks is now ready for
All readers who are interested in the his-
their implementation.
tory of Latin America are doubtless familiar
The book is well written, splendidly docu-
by this time with the plan of the Inter-
mented, readable, and interesting through-
American Historical Series, to which the
out.
present volume belongs.
In conformity
CHARLES W. COULTER
with that plan, a standard brief history of
University of New Hampshire
Chile by one of its leading historians, Luis
Galdames, was chosen for translation, and
BOOTH, GEORGE C. Mexico’s School-Made
the work of translating and editing was en-
Society. Pp. xi, 175. Stanford Univer-
trusted to one of our own outstanding au-
sity: Stanford University Press, 1941.
thorities on the history of Chile, Isaac
$2.50.
Joslin Cox of Northwestern University.
This book is a very brief and very casual
The result was a happy one, and the vol-
review of a very important subject. The
ume under review will probably prove one
contents spread over territory broad enough
of the most useful in this series. The origi-
to sustain a far more comprehensive work.
nal work by Galdames is one of the best-
The book includes something of the philoso-
balanced of all the standard national his-
phy, the political history, the content, and
tories of Latin American...