THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM OF PERU

This is volume 370 of the publisher's collection of monographs. It was likely the Stanford professor's fourth book (his second on South America, his third on Latin America), and it is written with the verve and grasp that made him one of the US's premier authorities on diplomatic history, and on the governments of South America. "At first glance one is tempted to believe that a country which has rearranged, revised, or rewritten its constitution 16 times in slightly over 100 years has adopted a form of government somewhat alien to its needs. however, when it is noted that the first 9 of these instruments were prepared within the first 15 years of the republic's existence, and of the other 7, 4 were in reality the same constitution of 1860 readopted or very slightly modified, it becomes evident that the instability after all is somewhat more apparent than real." The book's emphasis is the Constitution of 1920. 156 pages, with Introduction, Bibliography, Appendix, and Index; plus vi pages, Preface and Contents. Boards are rubbed at edges, and elsewhere show color loss, otherwise sound; text has lost its rfEP, second title, title page, and pages i and ii (if they differed from title page and impressum): our text begins with Preface (page iii), quoted in part above. Text - other than the lost pages - is strong and clean, though browning at margins. Laid in are research pages from the LOC Online Catalog, and from the publisher.…