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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.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein, eds., Violent Democracies in Latin America. Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg, eds., Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Sebastian Edwards, Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Niels Uildriks, ed., Policing Insecurity: Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America. Mercedes S. Hinton and Tim Newburn, eds., Policing Developing Democracies. James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. James N. Green, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Cath Collins, Post‐transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador. Ralph S. Clem and Anthony P. Maingot, eds., Venezuela's Petro‐Diplomacy: Hugo Chávez's Foreign Policy.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Twenty‐First Century. Todd A. Eisenstadt, Michael S. Danielson, Moisés Jaime Bailón Corres, and Carlos Sorroza Polo, eds., Latin America's Multicultural Movements: The Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights. Stephen B. Kaplan, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America. Jorge Lanzaro, ed., Presidencialismo y parlamentarismo América Latina y Europa Meridional: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, España, Italia, México, Portugal y Uruguay. William Michael Schmidli, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina. Aaron Schneider, State‐Building and Tax Regimes in Central America. Dag Mossige, Mexico's Left: The Paradox of the PRD. Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ruud Buitelaar and Pitou van Dijck, eds. Latin America's New Insertion in the World Economy: Towards Systematic Competitiveness in Small Economies. Henry Veltmeyer, James Petras, and Steve Vieux. Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective on the Political Economy of Structural Adjustment. James E. Mahon, Jr. Mobile Capital and Latin American Development. University Park Walter Molano. The Logic of Privatization: The Case of Telecommunications in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Edward L. Cleary. The Struggle for Human Rights In Latin America. Alexandra Barahona de Brito. Human Rights and Democratization in latin America: Uruguay and Chile. Donald F. Stevens, ed. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. James W. McGuire. Peronism Without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. Ransford W. Palmer, ed. The Repositioning of U.S.-Caribbean Relations in the New World Order. Horace A. Bartilow. The Debt Dilemma: IMF Negotiations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana. Maxwell A. Cameron and Philip Mauceri, eds. The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. David V. Carruthers, ed., Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice. Michael Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. Luiz Carlos Bresser‐Pereira, Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus. Jorge I. Domínguez, Chappell Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno, eds., Consolidating Mexico's Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective. Miguel Tinker Salas, The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. José Antonio Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy. Aníbal Pérez‐Liñán, Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in latin America. Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface, eds., Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Alex Segura‐Ubiergo, The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America: Globalization, Democracy, and Development. Hernán A. Silva, ed, Los caminos del MERCOSUR: historia económica regional etapa colonial. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Jeffrey Lesser, A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960‐1980. Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and the Power: Jean‐Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti. Baron L. Pineda, Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. René D. Harder Horst, The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay. Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney, Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies.     

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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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Books reviewed in this issue. Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero, eds., Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America. Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero, eds., Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America. Bryan McCann, Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Ernesto Calvo, Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking. Michelle D. Bonner, Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile. Keisha‐Khan Y. Perry, Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil. Keri Vacanti Brondo, Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras. Cath Collins, Katherine Hite, and Alfredo Joignant, eds., The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet. Catherine Krull, ed., Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism. Willibald Sonnleitner, Elecciones chiapanecas: del régimen posrevolucionario al desorden democrático. George Ciccariello‐Maher, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution. Arturo C. Sotomayor, The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper: Civil‐Military Relations and the United Nations.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Kelly, Philip. Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America. Austin: Hollander, Nancy Caro. Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America. New Brunswick: Rutgers Fleet, Michael, and Brian H. Smith. The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru. Notre Dame Armony, Ariel C. Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984. Athens Almeida, Anna Luiza Ozorio de, and Joào S. Campari. Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon Weyland, Kurt. Democracy Without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil. Pittsburgh: Blight, James G., and Peter Kornbluh. Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined. Carranza Valdés, Julio, Luis Gutiéérez Urdaneta, and Pedro Monreal González. Cuba: Restructuring the Economy, A Contribution to the Debate Schwartz, Rosalie. Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. Lincoln Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects Adams, John A., Jr. Mexican Banking and Investment in Transition Enríquez, Laura J. Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua Lambert, Peter, and Andrew Nickson, eds. The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay     

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Book reviewed in this article: BACEVICH, Andrew J.(2002). American Empire. The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy. DÉLOYE, Yves et Bernard VOUTAT (éds.)(2002). Faire de la science politique. GOETSCHEL, Laurent, Magdalena BERNATH et Daniel SCHWARZ (2002). Schweizerische Aussenpolitik. HOSLI, Madeleine O., Adrian Van DEEMEN et Mika WIDGRÉN (eds.)(2002) HUG, Simon (2002). Voices of Europe. Citizens, Referendums, and European Integration. THÉRET, Bruno (2002). Protection sociale et fédéralisme. L'Europe dans le miroir de l'Amérique du Nord     

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Book reviewed in this article: Carranza, Mario Esteban. South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South America. Guimarães, Nadya Araujo, and Scott Martin, eds. Competitividade e desenvolvimento: atores e instituçōes locais. Vera, Leonardo V. Stabilization and Growth in Latin America: A Critique and Reconstruction from Post‐Keynesian and Structuralist Perspectives. Powers, Nancy R. Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Paley, Julia. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile. Domínguez, Jorge I., and Alejandro Poiré, eds. Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion. Schatz, Sara. Elites, Masses, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico: A Culturalist Approach. Hoshino, Taeko. Industrialization and Private Enterprises in Mexico. Snyder, Richard. Politics After Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico.     

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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 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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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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Books reviewed in this issue. Cynthia J. Arnson, ed., In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America. Sebastián Etchemendy, Models of Economic Liberalization: Business, Workers, and Compensation in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Twenty‐First Century. Edward L. Gibson, Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies. Arie M. Kacowicz, Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: The Latin American Experience, 1982–2008. Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti‐Crocker, and Shawn Schulenberg, eds., Same‐Sex Marriage in Latin America: Promise and Resistance. Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck, Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics. Diana Villiers Negroponte, Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War. Clark Taylor, Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala.     

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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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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. Jeffrey W. Rubin and Vivienne Bennett, eds., Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin American Democracies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Photographs, tables, figures, index, 288 pp.; paperback $27.95. Ryan Saylor, State Building in Boom Times: Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Tables, bibliography, index, 244 pp.; hardcover $44.46. Imtiaz Hussain and Roberto Domínguez, North American Regionalism and Global Spread. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Acronyms, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 251 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook. Ursula Durand Ochoa, The Political Empowerment of the Cocaleros of Bolivia and Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Figures, tables, index, 248 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook. Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Map, illustrations, tables, figures, notes, index, 219 pp.; paperback $28.99. Christina Stolte, Brazil's Africa Strategy: Role Conception and the Drive for International Status. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 236 pp.; hardcover $100, ebook. Jorge I. Domínguez, Kenneth F. Greene, Chappell H. Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno, eds., Mexico's Evolving Democracy: A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Photographs, illustrations, map, figures, tables, appendix, chronology, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $55, ebook $55. Moisés Arce, Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 199 pp.; paperback $25.95, iPad $14.99, Kindle $20.79, Nook book $25.95. Oliver Stuenkel, The BRICS and the Future of Global Order. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015. Figures, bibliography, list of summits, chronology, index, 228 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $89.99. Carlos de la Torre, ed., The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. Table, index, 484 pp; hardcover $80, paperback $30, ebook $30, web pdf $30.