Contents:
I. Selections from The Conquest of Peru, by William Hickling Prescott.
II. The New World, by Lord Acton.
III. The European Background of Brazilian History, by Gilberto Freyre.
IV. Manuelita Sáenz, by German Arciniegas.
V. The Later American Policy of George Canning, by H.V.W. Temperley.
VI. Selections from The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin.
VII. Selections from “Dr. Francia”, by Thomas Carlyle.
VIII. The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Empire, by Lord Acton.
IX. The Relation of the Races in South America, by Lord Bryce.
X. Whose Hemisphere?, by Arthur Preston Whitaker.
XI. Chile: The Economic Crisis, by André Siegfried.
XII. Selections from “The Rich Culture of Mexico”, by F.S.C. Northrop.
XIII. Intellectual Origins of Aprismo, by Robert E. McNicoll.
XIV. Some Effects of Population Growth on Latin America’s Economy, by Alfonso Gonzalez.
XV. Swan Lake, by Paul Kramer.
XVI. Fidel Castro, by Frank Tannenbaum.
XVII. Power and Social Change in Colombia: The Cauca Valley, by Cole Blasier.
XVIII. Cuban Students in Politics: 1956 – 57, by Jaime Suchlicki.
XIX. Mexican Machismo: Politics and Value Orientations, by Evelyn P. Stevens.