Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance, Chile, Cuba and Costa Rica (review)
were taken by the commission’s official photographer, Rafael Castro y Ordóez. The images are accompanied by a detailed essay discussing the techniques of early photography and the role of photography in the expedition. The photographs include cityscapes of Salvador de Bahia, Montevideo, Guayaquil, and San Francisco, photographs of Latin Americans of various ethnicities and social classes, and of economic production such as gold mines and guano extraction. The images also include illustrations made by other members of the commission, including two striking watercolors of volcanoes in Ecuador, and finely detailed engravings of animals and ethnographic artifacts collected on the expedition. While the quality of reproduction is excellent, the captions that accompany the photographs are too cursory, and the photographs seem to be ordered randomly. The fourth section is a brief anthology of Jiménez de la Espada’s writings, which gives a sense of his intellectual breadth. This section begins with a thematic classification of Jiménez de la Espada’s writings by Leoncio López-Ocón. LópezOcón divides these writings into three main categories: on natural history, on geography, and on history. This valuable bibliographic guide also conveniently lists more recent editions of Jiménez de la Espada’s publications. The introduction is followed by a sampling of Jiménez de la Espada’s articles and essays on such diverse themes as the fauna of the Amazon River, the women of Chile, and comments on a 1582 ascent of the Pichincha mountain. This rich collection will be valuable for scholars who specialize in the history of science and exploration in Spain and the New World, and in the development of Spanish pan-Hispanism in the nineteenth century. It is less useful as an introduction to these themes, since it lacks a comprehensive overview that would unite the volume’s disparate sections and place them in a broader historical context.