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Alemania y America: la llamada del Nuevo Mundo: 500 anos de presencia alemana en America. By INGRID SCHULZE SCHNEIDER. ColOnes MAPFRE 1492. Coleccion Europa y America, 9. Madrid: Fundacion MAPFRE America, 1995. Maps. Bibliography. Index. 323 pp. Paper.
This volume, published by the Fundacion MAPFRE of Spain, is part of the collection Europa y America, intended to analyze the contributions of non-Iberian nations to the Americas. It is divided into three major sections: a brief description of the activities of Germans in colonial Hispanic America, their experience in North America, and their presence in Ibero-America during the national era. The latter section includes chapters on all of the South American nations, one on Mexico, one devoted to Central America, and another to the Caribbean. Given this topic's magnitude, and the fact...