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Books reviewed: Grandin, Greg (2004) The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Domínguez, Francisco and Guedes de Oliveira, Marcos (eds) (2004) Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy Shadlen, Kenneth (2004) Democratization without Representation. The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico. Garreton, Manuel Antonio (2003) Incomplete Democracy. Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America. Bennett, Vivienne, Dávila‐Poblete, Sonia and Nieves Rico, María (eds) (2005) Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Schneider, Ben Ross (2004) Business Politics and the State in Twentieth‐Century Latin America. de Ferranti, David, Perry, Guillermo E., Ferreira, Francisco H.G. and Walton, Michael (2004) Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? Van Oss, A.C. (2003) Church and Society in Spanish America. Florescano, Enrique and García Acosta, Virginia (eds) (2004) Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México. Weiner, Richard (2004) Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Dawson, Alexander S. (2004) Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Newcomer, Daniel (2004) Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s León, Mexico. Olsen, Margaret (2004) Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. Larson, Brooke (2004) Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes. Christiansen, Tanja (2004) Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862–1900. Watanabe, John M. and Fischer, Edward F. (eds) (2004) Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities. Knab, Timothy (2004) The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld. Kuss, Malena (ed) (2004) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America and Mexico. Burgos, Raúl (2004) Los gramscianos argentinos: cultura y política en la experiencia de Pasado y Presente. Dorfman, Ariel (2004) Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980–2004.     

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Books reviewed: Baud, Michiel. Intelectuales y sus Utopías LaFrance, David G. Revolution in Mexico's Heartland. Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla 1913–1920 Meighoo, Kirk. Politics in a Half‐Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago 1925–2001 Striffler, Steve and Moberg, Mark (eds.)Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas Eckstein, Susan and Wickham‐Crowley, Timothy (eds.)What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America Haagh, Louise and Helgo, Camilla (eds)Social Policy Reform and Market Governance in Latin America Devoto, Fernando. Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina: una histora McCaughan, Michael. The Battle of Venezuela Irwin, Robert McKee, McCaughan, Edward and Nasser, Michelle Rocío (eds)The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 Lesser, Jeffrey (ed.)Searching for Home Abroad. Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism Dávila, Jerry. Diploma of Whiteness. Race and Social Policy in Brazil Reis, João José. Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil Naro, Nancy Priscilla (ed.)Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America Salman, Ton and Zoomers, Annelies (eds)Imaging the Andes: Shifting Margins of a Marginal World Guttman, Matthew C. (ed.)Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America Waxer, Lise (ed.)Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music     

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Book reviewed in this article: Castro, Max. J., ed. Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. Craske, Nikki. Women and Politics in Latin America. Jaquette, Jane S., and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds. Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. Hira, Anil. Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies. Mace, Gordon, and Louis Bélanger, eds. The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism. Rodríguez Mendoza, Miguel, Patrick Low, and Barbara Kotschwar, eds. Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations. Welch, Cliff. The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. Hanchard, Michael, ed. Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Lesser, Jeffrey. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. McCaughan, Edward J. Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico. Snyder, Richard, ed. Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico. Dietz, Henry. Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State: Lima, 1970–1990.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Centeno, Miguel A., and Patricio Silva, eds. The Politics of Expertise in Latin America. Fitch, J. Samuel. The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America. Oxhorn, Philip, and Pamela K. Starr, eds. Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Tuman, John P., and John T. Morris, eds. Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring. Riordan Roett, ed. MERCOSUR: Regional Integration, World Markets. Inglehart, Ronald F., Neil Nevitte, and Miguel Basañez. The North American Trajectory: Cultural, Economic, and Political Ties Among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Van Dijck, Pitou, ed. The Bolivian Experiment: Structural Adjustment and Poverty Alleviation. Triay, Victor Andrés. Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. Williams, Philip J., and Knut Walter. Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. Cullather, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. Malone, David M. Decision‐making in the U.N. Security Council: The Case of Haiti.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin, eds., Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America. Jean Grugel and Pía Riggirozzi, eds., Governance After Neoliberalism in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil. Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, eds., The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post‐Pinochet Chile. Michelle L. Dion, Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth‐Century Mexico. Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980. James W. McGuire, Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Stephen D. Morris and Charles H. Blake, eds., Corruption and Politics in Latin America: National and Regional Dynamics. Javier A. Couso, Alexandra Huneeus, and Rachel Sieder, eds., Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America. Eduardo Silva, Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America. James P. Brennan and Marcelo Rougier, The Politics of National Capitalism: Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976. Andrés Mejía Acosta, Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective. Karem Roitman, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador: The Manipulation of Mestizaje. Jeffrey K. Staton, Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico. Leslie E. Anderson, Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared.     

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Books reviewed: Serulnikov, Sergio (2003)Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth‐Century Southern Andes Connaughton, Brian (2003)Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age. The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788–1853) Palmer, Steven (2003)From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 Papiernik, Charles (2004)Unbroken: From Auschwitz to Buenos Aires MacLachlan, Colin M. (2003)A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future. Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor (2003)The Economic History of Latin America since Independence Silverman, Helaine and Proulx, Donald (2002)The Nasca Castro‐Klarén, Sara and Chasteen, John Charles (eds)(2003)Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America Lewis, Laura A. (2003)Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico Hirsch, Jennifer S. (2003)A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families Myers, Kathleen Ann (2003)Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America Sanford, Victoria (2003)Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala Warren, Kay B. and Jackson, Jean E. (eds)(2002)Indigenous Movements, Self‐Representation, and the State in Latin America Burgess, Katrina (2004)Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy Dudley, Steven (2004)Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia Jaguaribe Helio and Álvaro de Vasconcelos (eds)(2003)The European Union, Mercosul and the New World Order Saldaña‐Portillo, María Josefina (2003)The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas in the Age of Development Trigo, Benigno (ed.)(2002)Foucault and Latin America: Appropriations and Deployments of Discursive Analysis Egan, Linda (2001)Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico Weiss, Jason (2003)The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris     

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Books Reviewed: Gauderman, Kimberly (2003) Women's Lives in Colonial Quito. Gender, Law and Economy in Spanish America Bauer, Brian (2004) Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca Chassen‐López, Francie R. (2004) From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca. The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911 Saney Isaac (2004) Cuba: A Revolution in Motion Chomsky, Aviva, Carr, Barry and Smorkaloff, Pamela María (2004) The Cuba Reader. History, Culture, Politics Diacon, Todd A. (2004) Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930 Racine, Karen (2003) Francisco De Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution Joseph, Gilbert M. and Henderson, Timothy J. (eds) (2002) The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics Guenther, Louise H. (2004) British Merchants in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil: Business, Culture, and Identity in Bahia, 1808–50 Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Fernández L'Hoeste, Héctor and Zolov, Eric (eds) (2004) Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America Warren, Jonathan W. (2001)Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil Diego, Armus (ed.) (2003) Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS Chasteen, John Charles (2004) National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance Brass, Tom (ed.) (2003) Latin American Peasants Thoumi, Francisco (2003) Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes Ariel de Vidas, Anath (2004) Thunder Doesn't Live Here Any More. The Culture of Marginality Among the Teeneks of Tantoyuca Vellinga, Menno (ed.) (2004) The Political Economy of the Drug Industry Manz, Beatriz (2004) Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and Hope Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo and Binford, Leigh (eds) (2004) Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador Tussie, Diana and Botto, Mercedes (eds) (2003) El alca y las Cumbres de las Américas: ¿una nueva relación público‐privada?     

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Canache, Damarys and Kulisheck, Michael (eds.) (1998), Reinventing Legitimacy: Democracy and Political Change in Venezuela. Mauceri, Philip (1998), State under Siege: Development and Policy Making in Peru. Ruth Berins Collier (1999), Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and Soth America. Sommer, Doris (ed.) (1999), The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Rodr1Hguez‐Luis, Julio (ed.) (1999), Re‐Reading JoseHMartiH: One Hundred Years Later. Taylor, William B. (1996), Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth‐Century Mexico. Purnell, Jennie. (1999), Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan. Evans, Sterling (1999), The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica. Arthur, Charles and Dash, Michael (eds.) (1999), A Haiti Anthology: Libete. Sheahan, John (1999), Searching for a Better Society: The Peruvian Economy from 1950. Lesser, Je4rey (1999), Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. Hanchard, Michael (ed.) (1999), Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Brooke, Larson (1998), Cochabamba, 1550–1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia. Gilderhus, Mark T. (2000), The Second Century: U.S.+Latin American Relations Since 1889. Palermo, Vicente and Novaro, Marcos (1996), Pol1Htica y poder en el gobierno de Menem. Tedesco, Laura (1999), Democracy in Argentina: Hope and Disillusion. Owensby, Brian P. (1999), Intimate Ironies: Modernity and The Making of Middle‐Class Lives in Brazil. Field, Les W. (1999), The Grimace of Macho Raton Artisans, Identity and Nation in Late 20th Century Western Nicaragua. Pichon, Francisco, Uquillas, Jorje and Frechione, John (eds.) (1999), Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America. Wilson, Fiona (ed.) (1999), Violencia y Espacio Social: Estudios Sobre Conflicto y Recuperacion. Koonings, Kees and Kruijt, Dirk (eds.) (1999), Societies of Fear. The Legacy of Civil War, Violence and Terror in Latin America.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce, eds., Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods. Enrique Mayer, Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform. Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina, eds., The Quality of Democracy in Latin America Denise M. Walsh, Women's Rights in Democratizing States: Just Debate and Gender Justice in the Public Sphere. Jane S. Jaquette, ed., Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America. Ana Margheritis, Argentina's Foreign Policy: Domestic Politics and Democracy Promotion in the Americas. Luiz Carlos Bresser‐Pereira, Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus. Juan E. De Castro and Nicholas Birns, eds., Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. Ronald Bruce St John, Toledo's Peru: Vision and Reality.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter (eds.), Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America Samuel L. Baily and Eduardo José Míguez (eds.), Mass Migration to Modern Latin America Mala Htun, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies Nikki Craske and Maxine Molyneux (eds.), Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America William I. Robinson, Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization Martín Hopenhayn, No Apocalypse, No Integration. Modernism and Post Modernism in Latin America Rei Kimura, President Fujimori of Peru: The President Who Dared to Dream David Cahill, From Rebellion to Independence in the Andes: Soundings from Southern Peru, 1750‐1830 Gregory Weeks, The Military and Politics in Postauthoritarian Chile Alberto Spektorowski, The Origins of Argentina's Revolution of the Right Raanan Rein, Argentina, Israel and the Jews. Perón, the Eichmann capture and after Anne Fountain, José Martí and U.S. Writers Salvador A. Oropesa, The Contemporáneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties Floyd Merrell, The Mexicans: A Sense of Culture Matthew C. Gutmann, The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico Martha Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: the Indian, Black and White Roots of Mexican Americans Jeremy A. Sabloff (ed.), Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, & Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology Jan M. G. Kleinpenning, Paraguay 1515‐1870; a Thematic Geography of its Development Alicia Gaspar de Alba (ed.), Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Subjectivities Sue Branford and Bernardo Kucinski, Politics Transformed: Lula and the Workers' Party Javier Auyero, Contentious Lives. Two Argentine Women, Two Protests and the Quest for Recognition Steven Levitsky, Transforming Labor‐Based Parties in Latin America. Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, and Alan Angell, eds., The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America.
Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri, eds., Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Magda Hinojosa, Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America. Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar, eds., Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty‐First Century: Strategies from Latin America. Diana Kapiszewski, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil. Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights. Emma Cervone, Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes. Guadalupe Correa‐Cabrera, Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Koonings, Kees, and Dirk Kruijt, eds. Societies of Fear: The Legacy of Civil War, Violence and Terror in Latin America. Kingstone, Peter R. Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil. LeoGrande, William M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992. Gauri, Varun. School Choice in Chile: Two Decades of Educational Reform.     

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Books reviewed: Stokes, Doug (2005) America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. Helmke, Gretchen (2005) Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina. Wood, Andrew Grant (ed.) (2004) On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico. Ochoa, Gilda L. (2004) Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict and Solidarity. Yashar, Deborah J. (2005) Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Herrera, Robinson A. (2003). Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth‐Century Santiago de Guatemala. Butler, Matthew (2004) Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–1929. Whitehead, Neil L. and Wright, Robin (eds) (2004) In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. Richard, Nelly (2004) The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation and Poetics of the Crisis Richard, Nelly (2004) Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference Steven Palmer and Ivan Molina (eds) (2004). The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.     

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Books reviewed: Ritter, Archibald R. M. (ed.) The Cuban Economy. Nun, José. Democracy: Government of the People or Government of the Politicians? Forment, Carlos. Democracy in Latin America 1760–1900: Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. Sandoval‐García, Carlos. Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica. Appelbaum, Nancy P., Macpherson, Anne S. and Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Thurner, Mark and Guerrero, Andrés (eds) After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Galinier, Jacques. The World Below: Body and Cosmos in Otomí Indian Ritual. Sacks DaSilva, Zenia (ed.) The Hispanic Connection. Spanish and Spanish‐American Literature in the Arts of the World. Morgenstern, Scott. Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll‐call Voting in Latin America and the United States.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert, eds., Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism. Benjamin Goldfrank, Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left. Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Mark Ungar, Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America. Serena Cosgrove, Leadership from the Margins: Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Matthew R. Cleary, The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico. David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, eds., Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn, and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and Politics at the Crossroads. John M. Carey, Legislative Voting and Accountability. Lídice M. Gómez Mango and Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour, Perspectivas de un reencuentro de las lenguas española y portuguesa. Donna Lee Van Cott, Radical Democracy in the Andes. Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability. Lisa Hilbink, Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile. Patricio Silva, In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile. Santiago Levy, Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality, and Economic Growth in Mexico. Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Cristian C. Baeza and Truman G. Packard, Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America. Eduardo Duhalde, Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración. Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, eds., Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Pablo González, eds., Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America. Lessie Jo Frazier, Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation‐State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Carlos Huneeus, The Pinochet Regime. Translated by Lake Sagaris. J. Christopher Kovats‐Bernat, Sleeping Rough in Port‐au‐Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Teresa Alfaro‐Velcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. John Tofik Karam, Another Arabesque: Syrian‐Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir. Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980–1997.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Gretchen Helmke and Julio Ríos‐Figueroa, eds., Courts in Latin America. Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne, eds., Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America. J. Tyler Dickovick, Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America. Andreas Tsolakis, The Reform of the Bolivian State: Domestic Politics in the Context of Globalization. Luis Roniger, Transnational Politics in Central America. María Clemencia Ramírez, Between the Guerrillas and the State: The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon. Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck, Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement. Todd A. Eisenstadt, Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements. David Close, Salvador Martí i Puig, and Shelley A. McConnell, eds., The Sandinistas and Nicaragua Since 1979. Olga M. González, Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. George Philip and Francisco Panizza, The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.