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A Mexican View of America in the 1860s: A Foreign Diplomat Describes the Civil War and Reconstuction . Edited by Thomas Schoonover and Ebba Wesener Schoonover. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. Pp. 271. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. $39.50.)

The book has several shortcomings. The most obvious omission was the absence of reference to any theoretical frameworks; no essay mentioned any theoretical or interpretive framework. The index is unacceptable; it does not serve the book. It only records personal names (even several mentioned casually-eg., Thomas Paine and LaCondamine-and not relevant to the book), six treaties (including two from the eighteenth century), and the four geographical locations represented by maps in the text. Important, recurring strands of U.S.-Latin American relations which are found in all or most chapters-such as the Monroe Doctrine, imperialism, economic relations, trade, the "Western Hemisphere" idea, Great Britain, and France-cannot be readily pursued because they are not indexed.