San Antonio College Library

Highlights the life of the plant breeder who developed many new trees, fruit, flowers, vegetables, grains, and grasses and improved many plants and trees aleady known.

Brings together four chapters from volumes III, V and VII of "The Cambridge History of Latin America", aiming to provide scholars, students and general readers with a concise history of this important island nation. It covers Cuba's development from the mid-18th century.

The colonies on the eve of the war, the war itself, the campaigns and battles, the leaders, the problems of finance and supply--are all discussed in this history which blends political, economic, and cultural history.

Focusing on the War of 1898, Louis Perez presents both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war that is informed by Cuban sources. --From publisher's description.

Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigration law. The late President expounds the need for an enlargement of our narrow immigration laws. His book expresses an ideal defined by Washington in the first years of the Republic: that America should always be a "propitious asylum for the unfortunates of other countries."

"Originally appeared under the title 'Gentlemen freeholders'". "Bibliographical note": pages 131-134."References": p. 137-153