Americas A QUARTERLY REVIEW OP INTER.AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY APRIL, 1956 Volume XII Niimbtr 4 published by the ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY WASHINGTON, D. C. BOOK REVIEWS Donald R. Shea: The Calvo Clause: A problem of inter-American and international law and diplomacy.. CHARLES G. FBNWICK Francisco Aguilera and Phyllis G. Carter (eds.): Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1952 MATHIAS C. KIEMEN Agustin Millares Carlo (ed.): Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, Bibliografia mexicana del siglo XVI JAVIER MALAGON William S. Greever: Arid Domain: The Santa Fe Railway and its Western Land Grant. HAROLD H. DUNHAM J. Lee Stambaugh and Lillian J. Stambaugh: The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas CARLOS E. CASTANEDA Fray Angelico Chavez: Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period J. MANUEL ESPINOSA Ralph L. Roys: The Maya Katun Prophecies of the Books of Chilam Balam, Series I JOHN M. LONGYEAR, III Henrik F. Infield and Koka Freier: People in Ejidos: A visit to the Cooperative Farms of Mexico. HOWARD F. CLINE Angel Valtierra: El Santo que liberto una raza: San Pedro Clover, S.J., esclavo de los esclavos negros. Su vida y su epoca, 1580-1654. ORLANDO FALS-BORDA Luis Duque Gomez: Colombia; Monumentos historicos y arqueol&gicos ELIZABETH WILDER WEISMANN Lilo Linke: Ecuador, Country of Contrasts BENJAMIN GENTO SANZ Agustin Millares Carlo and Juliin Calvo (eds.): Testimonios autenticos acerca de los Protomirtires del Japon LINO G. CANEDO David Vela: Marti en Guatemala ROSCOE R. HILL Sister Maria del Rey: In and Out the Andes SISTER MARY FREDERICK LOCHEMES Howard R. Smith: Economic History of the United States ELIZABETH MORRISSY Benjamin Keen (ed.): Readings in Latin-American Civilization, 1492 to the present FREDERICK B. PIKE Carlos E. Castaneda (ed.): Independent Mexico in Documents; Alberto Maria Carreno (ed.): Archho del General Porfirio Diaz. Memorias y Documentos; Ruben Vargas Ugane: La Carta a los Espanoles Americanos de Don Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzman; Lewis Hanke and Manuel Gimenez Fernandez (eds.): Bartolome de Las Casas, 1414-1566. Bibliografia critica; Tom B. Jones et. al. (eds.): A Bibliography of South American Economic Affairs; Hubert Herring: A History of Latin America; Augusto Salazar Bondy, La Filosofia en el Peru; Margaret Evans Price: Mirage; Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan: Pierre Toussaint; Natt N. Dodge and Herbert S. Zim: The American Southwest. Americas A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF INTER-AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY Volume X I I APRIL, 1956 Number 4 T H E ORDENANZA DEL PATRONAZGO, 1574: A N INTERPRETATIVE 'ESSAY Robert Charles Padden 333 LAS CASAS, HISTORIAN OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Emiliano Jos 355 T H E LAND, PEOPLE, AND PROBLEMS OF AMERICA IN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE Anthony Tudisco 363 T H E MEXICAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1879-1914 William H. Dusenberry 385 D O C U M E N T S FRAY PEDRO DE AGUADO, O.F.M.—DATE OF BAPTISM Guillermo Moron 399 INTER-AMERICAN N O T E S 407 BOOK R E V I E W S 415 (Listed on inside front cover) Copyright, 1956 ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN H I S T O R Y The contents of T H E AMERICAS are indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index and the International Index to Periodicals, and abstracted in Historical Abstracts. EDITORIAL STAFF A N T O N I N E TIBESAR, O.F.M., P h . D . Editor-in-Chief MATHIAS C. K I E M E N , O.F.M., P h . D . BEDE A . D A U P H I N E E , O.F.M., M.A. Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor JANE HERRICK, P h . D . Editorial Assistant FRANCIS B. STECK, O.F.M., P h . D . Q u i n c y College MAYNARD GEIGER, O.F.M., P h . D . Santa Barbara, California LAZARO LAMADRID, O.F.M., Lie. Hist. W a s h i n g t o n , D . C. FIDEL CHAUVET, O.F.M., P h . D . Mexico City, D . F . L I N O G . CANEDO, O.F.M., P h . D . W a s h i n g t o n , D . C. MICHAEL B. MCCLOSKEY, O.F.M., P h . D . 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