“Miss Helen Zimmern and Signor Agresti have tried to explain modern Italy to English readers, and their survey is both compact and intelligent. The writers have not quite got to the root of Italy’s discontents.”
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“So far as it goes it gives a clear outline of the progress of Italy. But her present developments are among the most interesting in all Europe, and this book, ending the survey where it does, hardly prepares us to understand them.”
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“She has written numerous books on Italy, and she has written better ones, not a little better.” F. O. Beck
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ZOOK, GEORGE FREDERICK. Company of royal adventurers trading into Africa. $1.10 Journal of negro history, 1216 You st., N.W., Washington, D.C. 382
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This monograph is reprinted from the Journal of negro history, (April, 1919) and is a contribution to the history of the slave trade. The time period covered is 1660–1672. Contents: Early Dutch and English trade to West Africa; The royal adventurers in England; On the west coast of Africa; The royal adventurers and the plantations; Bibliography; Index. The author is professor of modern European history in Pennsylvania state college.