Cloth with gilt titles.
1929 · New Haven
by Howland, Charles P., ed
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles.. Edges a little age-darkened else a near fine, clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket.. 535 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w maps, 2 of which are folding. Sm. 4to. With the bookplate of Edwin W[alter] Kemmerer (1875-1945), economist, advisor to foreign governments on monetary policy, and known as one of "the money doctors." This volume primary covers the Caribbean and Central America: Cuba, Santa Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Also International Organizations: the World Court and the Pact of Paris; and in the third section, Immigration including: immigration policy before the first world war, the literacy test and act of 1917, the acts of 1921, 1922, and 1924, the Oriental exclusion. (Inventory #: 32746)