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Mainwaring, Scott and Valenzuela, Arturo (eds) (1998), Politics, Society, and Democracy: Latin America. Essays in Honor of Juán J. Linz . Phillips, Lynne (ed.) (1998), The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America. Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism . Vellinga, Menno (ed.) (1988), The Changing Role of the State in Latin America . Domínguez, Jorge and Lindenberg, Marc (eds) (1997), Democratic Transitions in Central America . Terry Lynn Karl (1997), The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States . Escudeé, Carlos (1997), Foreign Policy Theory in Menemós Argentina . Conca, Ken (1997), Manufacturing Insecurity. The Rise and Fall of Brazilós Military Industrial Complex . Ward, John (1997), Latin America: Development and Conflict Since 1945 . Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet (eds) (1997), Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey . Chant, Sylvia (1997), Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World . Brown, Jonathan (ed.) (1997), Workers Control in Latin America, 1930–1979 . Alvarez, Sonia, Dagnino, Evelina and Escobar, Arturo (eds) (1998), Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures. Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements . Ward, Peter M. (1998), Mexico City . Johns, Michael (1997), The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz . Rodríguez, O. and Jaime, E. (eds) (1997), The Origins of Mexican National Politics, 1808–1847 . Serrano, Mónica (ed.) (1997), Mexico: Assessing Neo-Liberal Reform . Serrano, Mónica (ed.) (1998), Governing Mexico: Political Parties and Elections . Camp, Roderic (ed.) (1996), Polling for Democracy . Dumond, Don E. (1997), The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan . Raczynski, Dagmar (ed.) (1995), Strategies to Combat Poverty in Latin America . Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter (1997), Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires . Binford, Leigh (1996), The El Mazote Massacre . Parkinson Zamora, L. and Faris, W.B. (eds) (1995), Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community . Stevens, Donald F. (ed.) (1997), Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies . Apfell-Marglin, Frédérique (ed.)(1998), The Spirit of Regeneration. Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development . Carlsen, Robert S. (1997), The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town .     

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Books reviewed in this article: Sieder, Rachel (ed.) (1995), Impunity in Latin America Berger, Mark T. (1995), Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898–1990 Tulchin, Joseph S. with Bernice (eds) (1995) The Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America Norden, Deborah L. (1996) Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation McAdam, Andrew (1996) Antonio F. Cafiero: El Renovador Gibson, Edward (1996) Class and Conservative Parties, Argentina in Comparative Perspective Lewis, Colin and Szusterman, Celia (eds) (1996), Argentina: Foreign Relations and the New Foreign Policy Agenda Randall, Laura (ed.) (1996), Reforming Mexico's Agrarian Reform Tortolero Villasenor, Alejandro (1995), De la coa a la máquina de vapor: actividad agrícola e innovación tecnolbgica en las haciendas mexicanas, 1880–1914 Costa, Hélio da (1995), Em busca da memoria: comissão de fábrica, partido e sindicato no pósguerra Arom, Silvia M. and Ortoll, Servando (eds) (1996) Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765–1910 Smith, Courtney A. (1995), Socialist Transformation in Peripheral Economies: Lessons from Grenada Purcell, Susan Kaufman and Simon, Francoise (eds) (1995) Europe and Latin America in the World Economy Nazmi, Nader (1996), Economic Policy and Stabilization in Latin America Lavrin, Asuncion (1995) Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940 Besse, Susan K. (1996), Restructuring Patriarchy: the Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940 Molyneux, Maxine (1996), State, Gender and Institutional Change in Cuba's ‘Special Period’: the Federack de Mujeres Cubanas Townsend, Janet G. in collaboration with Arrevillaga, Ursula, Bain, Jennie, Cancino, Socorro, Frenk, Susan F., Pacheco, Silvana and Perez, Elia (1995), Women's Voices from the Rainforest Painter, M. and Durham, W.H. (eds) (1995), The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America Meyer, Doris (ed.) (1995), Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries Levinson, Brett (1996) Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima's “American Expression” Pérez de Mendiola, Marina (ed.) (1996), Bridging the Atlantic: Toward a Reassessment of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Ties Katra, William H. (1996) The Argentine Generation of 1837: Echeverria, Alherdi, Sarmiento, Mitre James, C.L.R. (ed. Anna Grimshaw) (1996) Special Delivery. The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939–48 Cowley, John (1996), Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Caribbean Traditions in the Making Cole, Richard R. (ed.) (1996) Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media, and Society Langer, Erick and Jackson, Robert H. (eds) (1995) The New Latin American Mission History Hoberman, Louisa Schell and Socolow, Susan Migden (eds) (1996) The Countryside in Colonial Latin America Andrien, Kenneth J. (1995), The Kingdom of Quito, 1690–1830: the State and Regional Development Cornblit, Oscar (1995) Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740–1782) O'Brien, Thomas, F. (1996), The Revolutionary Mission: American Business in Latin America, 1900–1945 Frye, David (1996) Indians into Mexicans: History and identity in a Mexican Town Paternosto, César (1996), The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art     

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Books reviewed in this article: Torres Rim, Edelberto (1993), History and Society in Central America González, Aníbal (1993), Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative. Abel, Christopher and Lewis, Colin (eds) (1993), Welfare, Poverty and Development in Latin America Mesa-Lago, Camelo (ed.) (1993), Cuba After the Cold War Cardoso, Eliana and Helwege, AM (1992), Cuba after Communism Graham, Carol (1992), Peru's APIA: Parties, Politics and the Elusive Quest for Democracy Scully, Timothy R. (1992), Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Chile Hennessy, Alistair and Lambie, George (eds) (1993), The Fractured Blockade: West European-Cuban Relations During the Revolution Boué, Juan Carlos (1993), Venezuela: The Political Economy of Oil Ellner, Steve (1993), Organized Labor in Venezuela 1958–1991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic Setting Lalta, Stanley and Freckleton, Marie (eds) (1993), Caribbean Economic Development; The First Generation Carbonell de Masy, Rafael, with the collaboration of Teresa Blumers and Ernesto A. J. Maeder (1992, Estrategias de desarrollo rural en los pueblos guaraníes (1609–1767) Aguilar Camín, Héctor and Meyer, Lorenzo (1993), In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History 1910–1989 McFarlane, Anthony (1993), Colombia before Independence Economy, Society, and Politics under Colonial Rule Brotherston, Gordon (ed.) (1993), Latin America: Literal Territories Palmer, Gabrielle and Pierce, Donna (1993), Cambios: The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art Giffords, Gloria Fraser (revised ed. 1992), Mexican Folk Retablos Gossen, Gary H. (ed.) (1993), South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation Gilbert, Alan (1994), The Latin American City Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth M. (1992) Explanation in Caribbean Migration     

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Books reviewed in this article: Bulmer-Thomas, Victor (ed.) (1996), Thirty Years of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom 1965–1995 Peter F. Guardino (1996), Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State Guerrero, 1800–1857 William B. Taylor (1996), Magistrates of the Sacred. Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico Martin, Cheryl English (1996), Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century Berman Santana, Déborah (1996), Kicking off the Bootstraps: Environment, Development and Community Power in Puerto Rico Dupuy, Alex (1997), Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution Farer, Tom (ed) (1996), Beyond Sovereignity: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. Mainwaring, Scott and Soberg Shugart, Matthew (eds) (1997), Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America Aitken, R., Craske, N., Jones G. A. and Stansfield, D. E. (eds)(1996), Dismantling the Mexican State? Mahon, James E. (1996), Mobile Capital and Latin American Development Tokman, Victor E. and Klein E. (eds) (1996), Regulation and the Informal Economy: Micro-enterprises in Chile, Ecuador and Jamaica Zimmerer, Karl S, (1997), Changing Fortune. Biodiversity and Campesino Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes Drake, Paul W. (1996), Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective Pereira, Anthony W. (1997), The End of the Peasantry Macdonald, Laura (1997), Supporting Civil Society: The Political Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in Central America Fox, Jonathan and Aranda, Josefina (1996), Decentralization and Rural Development in Mexico: Community Participation in Oaxaca's Municipal Funds Program Keeling, David J. (1996), Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises McGuirk, Bernard (1997), Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Post-Structuralist Criticism Goodrich, Diana Sorensen (1996), Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture Zimmerman, Marc (1995), Literature and Resistance in Guatemala: Textual modes and Cultural Politics from ‘El señor Presidente’ to Rigoberta Menchú Fischer, Edwin F. and Brown, R. McKenna (eds) (1996), Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala Hershfield, Joanne (1996), Mexican Cinema/ Mexican Woman, 1940–1950 Melhuus, Marit and Stølen, Kristi Anne (eds) (1997), Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas. Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery Radcliffe, Sarah and Westwood, Sally (1996), Remaking the Nation: Place, Identity and Politics in Latin America Berryman, Philip (1996), Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Fisher, John R. (1997), The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492–1810 Stinchcombe, Arthur L. (1995), Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World Posada-Carbó, Eduardo (ed.) (1998), In Search of a New Order: Essays on the Politics and Society of Nineteenth-Century Latin America Richardson, Bonham, C. (1997), Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800's Hill, Jonathan D. (ed.) (1996), History, Power and Identity. Ethnogenesis in the Americas Paerregaard, Karsten (1997), Linking Separate Worlds. Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Perti Rappaport, Joanne (1998), The Politics of Memory. Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes Coronil, Fernando (1997), The Magical State. Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela López Springfield, Consuelo (ed.) (1997), Daughters of Caliban. Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century Dore, E. (ed.) (1997), Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice Tulchin, J. and Garland, A. (eds.) (1997), Argentina – The Challenges of Modernisation Brennan, James P. (ed.) (1988), Peronism and Argentina McGuire, James W. (1997), Peronism Without Perón. Unions, Parties and Democracy in Argentina Stotzky, Irwin (1997), Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy Kay, C. (ed.) (1997), Globalisation, Competitiveness and Human Security Vaughan, Mary Kay (1977), Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940 Moore, Robin D. (1997), Nationalizing Blackness; Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940 Schwartz, Rosalie (1997), Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba Aching, G. (1998), The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo Smith, Verity (ed.) (1997), Encyclopaedia of Latin American Literature Salman, T. (1997), The Diffident Movement: Disintegration, Ingenuity and Resistance of the Chilean Pobladores, 1973–1990 French, John D. and James, Daniel (eds) (1997), The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box . Lavrin, Asunción (1998), Women, Feminism, & Social Change in Argentina, Chile, & Uruguay, 1890–1940 French, J., Cowie, J. and Littlehale, L. (1994), Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book Bergquist, C. (1996), Labor and the Course of American Democracy: US History in Latin American Perspective Review of Electronic Sources of Information     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Barickman, B. J. (1998), A Bahian Counterpoint. Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava and Slavery in the Recoóncavo, 1780–1860 Butler, Kim D. (1998), Freedoms Given Freedoms Won. Afro–Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador Fowler, Will (ed.) (1996), Authoritarianism in Latin America since Independence. Nugent, Daniel (ed.) (1998), Rural Revolt in Mexico: U.S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics. Sullivan-González, Douglass (1998), Piety, Power, and Politics: religion and nation formation in Guatemala 1821–1871 Mauceri, Philip (1996), State Under Seige: Development and Policy Making in Peru Cameron, Maxell and Mauceri, Philip (eds.) (1997), The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy Crabtree, John and Thomas, Jim (eds.) (1998), Fujimori's Peru: The Political Economy Dominguez, J. (ed.) (1998), International Security and Democracy. Latin American and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era Esti Rein, M. (1998). Politics and Education in Argentina 1946–1962 Troncoso, Hugo Cancino (1997), Chile: Iglesia y dictadura 1973–1989. Un estudio sobre el rol politico de la Iglesia católica y el conflicto con el régimen militar Zoomers, A. (ed.) (1998), Estrategias campesinas en el, surandino de Bolivia: Intervenciones y desarrollo rural en el norte de Chuquisaca y Potosi Gossen, Gary H. (1999), Telling Maya Tales — Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (ed.) (1998), Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives Hamilton, S. (1998), The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes Fishburn, E. (ed) (1998), Borges and Europe Revisited. Stoll, David (1999), Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of all Poor Guatemalans Menchu, Rigoberta (1998), Crossing Borders, Verso Moore, Jerry D. (1996), Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes: the Archaeology of Public Buildings.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Collier, Simon and Sater, William (1996), A History of Chile, 1808–1994
Bulmer-Thomas, Victor (1994), The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence
Ramirez, Susan Elizabeth (1996), The World Upside Down: Cross Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Mundy, Barbara, E. (1996), The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Davis, Darien J., ed., (1995) Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
Meade, Terasa A., (1997), 'Civilizing' Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Schneider, Ronald M. (1996), Brazil: Culture and Politics in a New Industrial Powerhouse
Coutinho, Mauricio (1996) The Brazilian Fiscal System in the 1990s: Equality and Efficiency Under Inflationary Conditions
Jelin, Elizabeth and Hershberg, Eric (eds.) (1996), Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America
Chalmers, Douglas A., Vilas, Carlos M., Hite, Katherine, Martin, Scott B., Piester, Kerianne and Segarra, Monique (1997), The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking participation and representation
Costa, Sergio (1997), Dimensionen der Demokratisierung: Offentlichkeit, Zivilgesellschaft und likale Partizipation in Brasilien .
Little, Walter and Posada-Carbo, Eduardo (eds.) (1996), Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America.
Linkogle, Stephanie (1996), Gender Practice and Faith in Nicarague: Constructing the Popular and Making 'Common Sense'
Prevost, Gary and Vanden, Harry E. (eds) (1997), The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Collier, Simon and Sater, William (1996), A History of Chile, 1808–1994
Bulmer-Thomas, Victor (1994), The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence
Ramirez, Susan Elizabeth (1996), The World Upside Down: Cross Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Mundy, Barbara, E. (1996), The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Davis, Darien J., ed., (1995), Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
Meade, Terasa A., (1997), 'Civilizing' Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Schnieder, Ronald M. (1996), Brazil: Culture and Polities in a New Industrial Powerhouse
Coutinho, Mauricio (1996), The Brazilian Fiscal System in the 1990s: Equality and Efficiency Under Inflationary Conditions
Jelin, Elizabeth and Hershberg, Eric (eds.) (1996), Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America
Chalmers, Douglas A., Vilas, Carlos M., Hite, Katherine, Martin, Scott B., Piester, Kerianne and Segarra, Monique (1997), The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking participation and representation
Costa, Sergio (1997), Dimensionen der Demokratisierung: Offentlichkeit, Zivilgesellschaft und likale Partizipation in Brasilien
Little, Walter and Posada-Carbo, Eduardo (eds.) (1996), Political Corruption in Europe and Latin
Linkogle, Stephanie (1996), Gender Practice and Faith In Nicaragua: Constructing the Popular and Making 'Common Sense'
Prevost, Gary and Vanden, Harry E. (eds) (1997), The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this article:
Brading, D. A. (1994), Church and State in Bourbon Mexico, the Diocese of Michoách 1749–181O)
Andrien, Kenneth J. and Johnson, Lyman L. (eds) (1994), The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850
Wolfe, Joel (1993), Working Women, Working Men: São Paul0 and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
Florescano, Enrique (trans. Albert G. Bork with the assistance of Kathryn R. Bork) (1994), Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: from the Aztecs to Independence
Brumfiel, Elizabeth M; and Fox, John W. (eds) (1994), Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Arnold, Dean E. (1993), Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community
Weber, David J. and Rausch, Jane M. (eds) (1994), Where Cultures Meet: the Frontier in Latin American History
Anderson, Leslie E. (1994), The Political Ecology of the Modem Peasant
Rakowski, Cathy A. (ed.) (1994), Contrapunto: the Informal Sector Debate in Latin America
Linz, Juan J. and Valenzuela, Arturo (eds) (1994), The Failure of Presidential Democracy
Geddes, Barbara (1994), Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America
Guzman Bouvard, Marguerite 1994), Revolutionizing Motherhood: the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Rodriguez, Jeanette (1994), Our Lady of Guadalupe. Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women
Menton, S. (1993), Latin America's New Historical Novel
Jörgensen, Beth (1994), Engaging Dialogues: the Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Taylor, kathy 1994), The New Narrative of Mexico: Subversions of History in Mexican Fiction     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Bray, Warwick (ed. (1994), The Meeting of Two Worlds: Europe and the Americas 1492–1650 Marcus, Joyce (1992), Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations Cervantes, Fernando (1994), The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain Patch, Robert W. (1993), Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan 1648–1812 Melville, Elinor G. K. 1994), A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico Minchom, Martin (1994), The People of Quito, 1690–1810: Change and Unrest in the Underclass Ward, Christopher (1994), Imperial Panama: Commerce and Conflict in Isthmian America, 1550–1800 Gootenberg, Paul (1994), Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's ‘Fictitious Prosperity’ of Guano, 1840–1880 Jacobsen, Nils (1993) Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780–1930 Hales, Charles R. (1994), Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987 Silva, Eduardo (trans. Moyra Ashford) (1993), Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour Barthélémy, Gérard and Girault, Christian (eds) (1993), La République haitienne: etat des lieux et perspectives Lal, Brij V., Munro, Doug and Beechert, Edward D. (eds) (1993), Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation Nugent, Stephen (1993), Amazonian Cuboclo Society: an Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy Whitten, Dorothea S. and Whitten, Norman E. (eds) (1993), Imagery and Creativity. Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas Peterson, Jeanette Favrot (1993), The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-century Mexico Britton, John A. (ed.) (1994), Molding the Hearts and Minds: Education, Communications, and social Change in Latin America Martin, Christopher (1994) Schooling in Mexico, Staying in or Dropping Out Salinas Meza, René (1993), Elideario femenino chileno, entre la tradicióny la modernidad. Siglos XVIII al XX Kuppers, Gaby (ed.) (1994), Compañeras: Voices from the Latin American Women's Movement Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio (1993), Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space Lowenthal, Abraham F. and Burgess, Katrina (eds) (1993), The California-Mexico Connection Browne, Harry (1994), For Richer, For Poorer: Shaping US-Mexican Integration Cornelius, Wayne A., Craig, Ann L. and Fox, Jonathan (eds) (1994), Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: the National Solidarity Strategy De la Peña, Sergio and Wilkie, James (1994), La estadística económica en México. Los orígenes Bulmer Thomas, Victor, Craske, Nikki and Serrano, Monica (eds) (1994), Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement: Who Will Benefit? Aspe, Pedro (1993), Economic Transformation: The Mexican Way Sanchez, Manuel and Corona, Rossana (eds) (1993), Privatisation in Latin America Conitrot, Adolfo and Junco, Silva (eds) (1993), Macroeconomic Conditions and Trade Liberalisation Bacha, Edmar L. (ed.) (1993), Savings and Investment Requirements for the Resumption of Growth in Latin America Bernecker, Walther L. and Tobler, Hans Werner (eds) (1993), Development and Underdevelopment in America Baer, Werner and Tulchin, Joseph S. (eds) (1993), Brazil and the Challenge of Economic Reform Payne, Leigh A. (1994), Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change Furley, Peter A. (ed.)(1994), The Forest Frontier: Settlement and Change in Brazilian Roraima Rock, David (ed.) (1994), Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions Selbin, Eric (1993), Modern Latin American Revolutions Morley, Morris H. (1994), Washington, Somoza and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in US Policy Toward Nicaragua, 1969–1981 Liss, Sheldon B. (1994) Fidel! Castro's Political and social Thought Gills, B., Rocamora, J. and Wilson, R. (eds) (1993), Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order Manzetti, Luigi (1993), Institutions, Parties and Coalitions in Argentine Politics     

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Books reviewed in this article: The González de la Rocha, Mercedes (1994), The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican City Roosevelt, Anna (ed) (1994), Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the present: Anthropological Perspectives Bastian, Jean-Pierre (1994), Le Protestantisme an Amérique Latine: une approche socio-historique Weiss, Judith A. et al (1993), Latin American Popular Theatre; the First Five centuries Versényi, Adam (1993), Theatre In Latin American: Religion, Politics and Culture from cortés to the 1980s Cloudsley, peter(1993), A Survey of Music in Peru, British museum Foweraker, Joe (1995), Theorizing Social Movements Jonas, Susanne and McCaughan, Edward J. (eds) (1994), Latin America Faces the 21st Century: Reconstructing a Social Justice Agenda Maingot, Anthony P. (1994), The United States and the Caribbean Martz, John D. (ed)(1995), United States Policy in Latin America: a Decade of Crisis and Challenge Niblo, Stephen R. (1995), War, Diplomacy, and Development: the United States and Mexico, 1938–1954 Craske, Nikki (1994), Corporatism Revisited: Salinas and the Reform of the Popular Sector Harvey, Neil and Serrno, Mónica(eds)(1994), Party Politics in “An Uncommon Democracy”, Political Paties and Elections in Mexico Cook, Maria Lorena, Middlebook, Kevin J. and Molinar Horcasitas, Juan (eds) (1994), The Politics of Economic Restructuring: State-Society Relations and Regime Change in Mexico Joseph, Gilbert M. and Nugent, Daniel (eds) (1994), Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico Dunkerley, James (1994), The Pacification of Central America Spoor, Max (1995), The State and Domestic Agriculture Markets in Nicargua Vilas, Carlos M. (1995), Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market, State, and the Revolutions in Central America Goodman, Louis W., Mendelson Forman, Johanna Naím, Moíses, Tulichin, Joseph S. and Gary (eds) (1995), Lessons of the Venezuelan experience Rosen, Fred and McFadyen, Deidre (eds) (1995), Free trade and Economic Restructuring in Latin America: a NACLA Reader Kagami Mitsuhiro (1995) The voice of east asia Development Implication for America     

Local plant use and traditional conservation practices in Nhema communal area,Zimbabwe

Abstract

This article is based on a study that was carried out in Nhema communal area in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, with the main objective of documenting local plant use and traditional conservation practices. Data collected through household semi-structured and open interviews showed that 46 plant species in 40 genera and 24 families were mainly used for firewood, construction wood, food and traditional medicine. Other minor uses included using plant species for making mats, rope and shading. Firewood and construction wood ranked as the most important tree products used. The preferred plant species included: Julbernardia globiflora (Mutondo); Brachystegia spiciformis (Musasa); Terminalia sericea (Mususu); Brachystegia boehmii (Mupfuti); Combretum imberbe (Mutsviri); Combretum molle (Mubondo) and Burkea africana (Mukarati). Some of the highly preferred species, considered to be declining in the local environment, included Adenium obesum (Chisvosve); Azanza garckeana (Mutohwe); Brachystegia boehmii (Mupfuti); Brachystegia spiciformis (Musasa); Burkea africana (Mukarati); Combretum imberbe (Mutsviri); Combretum molle (Mubondo); Dalbergia melanoxylon (Mukonashanhu); Diospyros mespiliformis (Musuma); Elephantorrhiza goetzei (Ntorani); Julbernardia globiflora (Mutondo); Phragmites australis (Shanga; Poulzozia hypoleuca (Munanzwa); Pterocarpus angolensis (Mubvamaropa); Terminalia sericea (Mususu) and Uapaca kirkiana (Muzhanje). Highly preferred and declining species were characteristically large trees and shrubs. Local people are aware of the need to conserve plant resources in order to protect the environment and avoid the extinction of these rare species.Traditional conservation practices have substantially contributed to the conservation of plant species in Nhema communal area. The protection of indigenous timber, fruit trees, trees with social and cultural significance, the use of deadwood for firewood, the use of eucalyptus trees as construction wood and the occurrence of sacred woodland areas represented some of the traditional conservation techniques employed in Nhema communal area. These local practices demonstrate the dynamism and significance of African indigenous knowledge systems.     

New Labour: what's published is what counts

Books reviewed in this article:
Barrett-Brown, M. and Coates, K. (1996) The Blair Revelation: Deliverance for Whom?
Blackburn, R. and Plant, R. (eds) (1999) The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda.
Blair, T. (1996) New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country.
Brivati, B. and Bale, T. (eds) (1997) New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects.
Crewe, I., Gosschalk, B. and Bartle, J. (1998) Political Communications: Why Labour Won the General Election of 1997
Denver, D., Fisher, J., Cowley, P. and Pattie, C. (1998) British Elections and Parties Review, Volume 8: The 1997 General Election.
Driver, S. and Martell, L. (1998) New Labour: Politics after Thatcherism.
Ellison, N. (1994) Egalitarian Thought and Labour Politics: Retreating Visions.
Gamble, A. and Wright, T. (1999) The New Social Democracy.
Geddes, A. and Tonge, J. (eds) (1997) Labour's Landslide: The British General Election 1997.
Giddens, A. (1998) The Third Way: the Renewal of Social Democracy.
Hay, C. (1999) The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring under False Pretences?
Hazell, R. (ed.) (1999) Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years.
Jones, T. (1996) Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair.
Shaw, E. (1996) The Labour Party Since 1945.
Taylor, G. (1997) Labour's Renewal? The Policy Review and Beyond.
Thompson, N. (1996) Political Economy and the Labour Party: The Economics of Democratic Socialism 1884–1995.
Worcester, R. and Mortimore, R. (1999) Explaining Labour's Landslide.     

Book reviews

Adelman, Jeremy (1999), Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World .
Walker, Charles F. (1999), Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840 .
Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher (1999), Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833+1874 .
Lauria-Santiago, Aldo (1999), An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914 .
Austin-Broos Diane J. (1997), Jamaica Genesis: Religion and The Politics of Moral Orders .
V. Montecinos (Ed.) (1998), Economists, Politics and the State: Chile 1958–1994, vol. viii .
A. Hira (ed.) (1998); Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National and Organizational Case Studies .
Cullather, Nick (1999), Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account Of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952+1954 .
Wilson Samuel (ed.) (1999), The Indigenous People of the Caribbean .
Gary H. Gossen (1999), Telling Maya Tales. Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico .
Lievesley, Geraldine, Democracy in Latin America: Mobilisation, Power and the search for a New Politics .
Gould Jeffrey (1998), To Die in This Way. Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1965 .
Torres, Carlos Alberto and Puiggrós, Adriana (1998), Latin American Education. Comparative Perspectives .
Archetti, Edwardo (1999), Masculinities, Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina .
Outtes Joel (ed.) (1997), O Recife: gênese do urbanismo, 1927+1943 .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue The Luck of the Irish: How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia. By Babette Smith (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp. xi + 292. Illustrations, notes, index. AU$32.99 (pb). Sir Charles Lilley: Premier and Chief Justice of Queensland. By J.M. Bennett (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2014), xvii + 365 pp, AU$64.95 (hb). Visions of Colonial Grandeur: John Twycross at Melbourne's International Exhibitions, Melbourne. By Charlotte Smith and Benjamin Thomas (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2014), AU$39.95 (pb). The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation. By Alan Atkinson (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2014), pp.xxii + 505. AU$49.95 (pb). Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. By Joan Beaumont (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2013), 656 pp. AU$55.00 (hb). ISBN 9781741751383. Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography. By Carolyn Holbrook (Sydney: UNSWPress, 2014), AU$34.99 (pb). The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO 1949–1963, Vol. 1. By David Horner (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp.710. AU$59.99 (hb). Taking God to School: The End of Australia's Egalitarian Education. By Marion Maddox (Crow's Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp. xxiii + 248. A$29.99 (pb). Murray Gleeson: The Smiler. By Michael Pelly (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2014), pp. v + 280. Sixteen photographs. AU$59.95 (hb). Lessons in Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff. By R.A.W. Rhodes and Anne Tiernan (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2014), pp. vii + 263. $59.99 (pb). He Who Must Be Obeid: the Untold Story. By Kate McClymont and Linton Besser (North Sydney: Vintage Books, 2014), pp.425, $34.99 (pb). Tony Windsor: The Biography. By Ruth Rae (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2014), ISBN 9781743319253. AU$35.00 (pb). Australian History in 7 Questions. By John Hirst (Collingwood, Vic., Black Inc., 2014), 218 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐86395‐670‐3. AU$24.99 (pb). Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia. By Agnieszka Sobocinska (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2014), AU$34.99 (pb). Changing Times: New Zealand Since 1945. By Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013), NZ$45.00 (pb), available in Australia through InBooks. Making Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayma. By David Hanlon (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014), pp. xiv + 313. Four Maps. US$55.00 (hb). Malthus: The Life and Legacy of an Untimely Prophet. By Robert J. Mayhew (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap, 2014), pp. 284. AU$46.95 (hb), available in Australia through Footprint Books. The Life of R. H. Tawney: Socialism and History. By Lawrence Goldman (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. xiv + 411. £65.00 (hb). Ten Cities that Made an Empire. By Tristram Hunt (London: Allen Lane, 2014). £25.00 (hb). Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945. By James Crossland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp.xiv + 269. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐39955‐7. £60.00 (hb). The Tories: from Winston Churchill to David Cameron. By Timothy Heppell (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), AU$39.99 (pb); and Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain. By Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), $29.99 (pb). The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy. By Melvin Edelstein (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), pp. XV + 365. Five maps. £80. Vodka Politics. Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State. By Mark Lawrence Schrad (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp.xvii + 492. US$35.00. Iran and the United States: An Insider's View of the Failed Past and the Road to Peace. By Seyed Hossein Mousavian (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) $45 (hb). Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. By Bryan McCann (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp.ix + 249. Eight Maps. Nineteen Photographs. Paper AU$24.95. Library Cloth Edition AU$89.95. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750: Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships. By Kaushik Roy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), AU$130.00 (hb). The Company and the Shogun: the Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. By Adam Clulow (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), xi, 262 pp. + notes, bibliography, index; maps, figures. ISBN: 978‐0‐231‐1648‐3. AU$79.00 (hb), available in Australia through Footprint Books. Gender and Global Justice. Edited by Alison M. Jaggar (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), pp.223. £16.99 (pb). Historians Debate the Rise of the West. By Jonathan Daly (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) 978‐1‐138‐77480‐3. AU$63.99 (pb). Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. Edited by Kate Nash (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), pp. 168 9PB £12.99.     

Book reviews

Gutiérrez, Natividad (2000), Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities. Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State .
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld (1999), The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes .
Buxton, Julia and Phillips, Nicola (eds.) (1999), Developments in Latin American political economy - States, Markets and Actors .
Mignolo, Walter D (2000), Local Histories/Global Designs. Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking .
José Sánchez-H. (1999), The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema .
Rosaleen Howard-Malverde (ed.) (1997), Creating Context in Andean Cultures. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics .
Clastres, Pierre (1998), Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians .
Rebhun, L.A. (1999), The Heart is Unknown Country: Love in the Changing Economy of Northeast Brazil .
Molloy, S. and Irwin, Robert McKee (eds.) (1998), Hispanisms and Homo-sexualities .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Savedoff, William D. (1995) Wages, Labour and Regional Development in Brazil Seidman, Gay W. (1994), Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970–1985 Lesser, Jeffrey (1995), Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question Szuchman, Mark D. and Brown, Jonathan (eds) (1995) Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776–1860 Hünefeldt, Christine (1994) Paying the Price of Freedom, Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854 Nygren, Anna (1995) Forest, Power and Development: Costa Rican Peasants in the Changing Environment Sponsel, Leslie E. (ed.) (1995) Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia. An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World Campbell, Howard (1994) Zapotec Renaissance: Ethnic Politics and Cultural Revivalism in Southern Mexico Spier, Fred (1994), Religious Regimes in Peru: Religion and State Development in a Long-Term Perspective and the Effects in the Andean Village of Zurite Camnitzer, Luis (1994), New Art of Cuba Leiner, Marvin (1994), Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS Mason, Tony (1995) Passion of the People? Football in Latin America Miller, Simon (1995) Landlords and Haciendas in Modernizing Mexico: Essays in Radical Reappraisal Guimaräes, Antônio S., Agier, M. and Castro, Nadya A. (1995), Imagens e identidades do trabalho Newson, Linda A. (1995), Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador Swanson, Philip (1995), The New Novel in Latin America: Politics and Popular Culture after the Boom Collier, Simon, Cooper, Artemis, Azzi, Maria Susana and Martin, Richard (1995), Tango! The Dance, the Song, the Story     

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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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: BUSCH, Andreas (1995). Preisstabilitätspolitik. Politik und Inflationsraten im internationalen Vergleich. BUSSMANN, Werner (1995). Evaluationen staatlicher Massnahmen erfolgreich begleiten und nutzen. Ein Leitfaden. Traduction française: BUSSMANN, Werner (1995). Accompagner et mettre à profit avec succès les évaluations des mesures étatiques: guide de réflexion, trad. de l'allemand par Françoise Nagy. BUSSMANN, Werner (Hg.) (1994). Lernen in Verwaltungen und Policy-Netzwerken. EDWARDS, Griffith et al. (1995). Alcohol Policy and the Public Good. KLINGEMANN, Harald, TAKALA, Jukka-Pekka and Geoffrey HUNT (ed.) (1992). Cure, Care, or Control. Alcoholism Treatment in sixteen Countries. JOYE, Dominique, HUISSOUD, Thérèse, SCHULER, Martin et Jean-Pierre WOLFF (éd.) (1995). Habitants des quartiers, citoyens de la ville? KRAMER, Helmut (Hg.) (1995). Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte im Gespräch. ROSSI, Martino e Elena SARTORIS (1995). Ripensare la solidarietà. Mutamenti economici, crisi della sicurezza sociale e modelli di riforma. SCHMIDT, Manfred G. (1995). Wörterbuch zur Politik, Kröners Taschenusgabe. SCIARINI, Pascal (1994). La Suisse face à la Communauté européenne et au GATT.     

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Thorp, Rosemary (1998), Progress, Proverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century, Inter‐American Development Bank (Washington). Katz, Friedrich (1998), The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Jones, Grant D. (1998), The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. Bell, Stephen (1998), Campanha Gaúcha. A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. Adelman, Jeremy (ed) (1999), Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor and Dunkerley, James (eds.) (1999), The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. Leogrande, W.M. (1998), Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America 1977‐1992. Arnson, Cynthia (ed.) (1999), Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America. Biekart, Kees (1999), The Politics of Civil Society Building. European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America. Belnap, Jeffrey and Fernandez, Raúl (eds.) (1998) José Martí's “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies. Chomsky, Aviva and Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo (eds.) (1998), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation‐State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Míguez, Daniel (1998), Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb. Kamsteeg, Frans H (1998), Prophetic Pentecostalism in Chile: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy. Rodríguez, Victoria (ed.) (1998), Women’Participation in Mexican Political Life. Arias, Patricia and Fiona Wilson (1997), La Aguja y el Surco: Cambio Regional, Consumey Relaciones de Génera en la Industria de la Ropa en México. Laguerre, E.S. (1998), Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America. Johnson, H. and Watson, K. (ed) (1998), The White Minority in the Caribbean. Bueno, Eva P. and Terry Caesar (eds.) (1998), Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture. Parker, Richard (1999), Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Kulick, Don (1998), Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Davies, Matt (1999), International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile: National Intellectuals and Transnational Hegemony. Roberts, Kenneth (1999), Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Petras, James (1999), The Left Strikes Back, Class Conflict in Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism.