Harold Eugene Davis

DANIEL C. LEVY. University and Government in Mexico: Autonomy in an Authoritarian System. Pp. xiv, 173. NY: Praeger Publishers, 1980.

guarantee social justice for the greatest number, irrespective of sectarian affiliation.&dquo; Much of the valuable information in the book is the fruit of Khalidi’s daily experience of Lebanese life during the ongoing crisis and personal interviews with top Palestinians, Lebanese, and other officials and leaders. However, he sometimes depends too much on the Western press to cover internal Lebanese and Palestinian events when local

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and 1960s on communities in South Arabia beginning in the sixth century B.C. Compared to his considerable achievement in descriptive history, the social science is ineffective. Historical minutiae dominate the book at the expense of a more substantial treatment needed in at least two areas: the Yemen Civil War, which was a major factor in Arab disunity in the 1960s, and the conflict between North Yemen and South Yemen which constitutes a current locus of inter-Arab rivalry. With such treatment we might have

Mario Rodriguez. The Cádiz Experiment in Central America, 1808-1826. Pp. 327. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

It is often assumed that the most creative aspect of Latin American thought, since independence, has been revolutionary. To a considerable degree this is true, as this author has himself pointed out in previous writings. But Latin America has also felt the impact of a different stream of creative thought, Spanish in origin to a considerable degree, though not completely so—the stream of Hispanic and Christian traditionalism. But this traditionalism is a mixed current. Thus, Pablo Gonzalez Casanova of Mexico has shown that while reactionary forces often opposed it, “modern” Christian thought in Spain and New Spain was absorbing the new philosophy and science of the eighteenth century. Alberto Caturelli and Enrique Zuleta Alvarez. of Argentina, in somewhat different ways, have pointed out a mixture of Christian traditionalism with liberal streams of thought in that country. Moises Gonzalez Navarro of Mexico found in the historian-statesman, Lucas Alaman, a mixture of Christian traditionalism and economic liberalism. Carlos Valderrama Andrade of Colombia has found that traditionalists such as Miguel Antonio Caro (1843-1909), and his father before him, mixed with the conservative elements of traditionalist thought progressive elements not unlike those of modern Christian democracy.