Book Reviews

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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Books reviewed in this issue. Karen Kampwirth, ed., Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics. Elin Skaar, Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America: Violations, Politics, and Prosecution. Brian Loveman, No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere Since 1776. Josefina A. Echavarría, In/security in Colombia: Writing Political Identities in the Democratic Security Policy. M. Cristina Alcalde, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru. Christina Ewig, Second‐Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru.     

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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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Kommunale Repräsentation auf den Landtagen Schwäbisch-Österreichs. Eine Prosopograhie der Abgeordneten aus der Grafschaft Hohenberg und der Landvogtei Schwaben,Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Landeskunde

Anthony Fletcher: Reform in the Provinces: The Government of Stuart England. (Yale University Press, 1986; pp.xiv, 386; ISBN 0521 330637; £22.00.)

J.C.D. Clark: Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp.x, 182; ISBN 0521 33710 0; pb, £6.95 ($9.95.))

J.M. McEwen (ed.): The Riddell Diaries, 1908–1923. (The Athlone Press, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1986; pp. xviii, 430; ISBN 0 485 11300 7; £25.00.)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Edward L. Cleary, The Rise of Charismatic Catholicism in Latin America. Gabriela Ippolito‐O'Donnell, The Right to the City: Popular Contention in Buenos Aires. Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, and Marcelo K. Silva, Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil. LaDawn Haglund, Limiting Resources: Market‐Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods. Ana María Bejarano, Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela. Judith A. Teichman, Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Kathleen Staudt, Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso, and César M. Fuentes, eds., Cities and Citizenship at the U.S.‐Mexico Border: The Paso Del Norte Metropolitan Region. Jason Seawright, Party System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela. Jennifer McCoy and Francisco Diez, International Mediation in Venezuela. Sebastián M. Saiegh, Ruling by Statute: How Uncertainty and Vote Buying Shape Lawmaking.     

Book Reviews

Matthew Amengual, Politicized Enforcement in Argentina: Labor and Environmental Regulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 286 pp.; hardcover $99.99, ebook $80. Matthew C. Ingram, Crafting Courts in New Democracies: The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Maps, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, index, 392 pp.; hardcover, $110. Russell Crandall, The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Photographs, maps, figures, list of organizations, bibliography, index, 698 pp; hardcover $99.99, paperback $39.99, ebook $32. Luis Fernando Angosto‐Ferrández, Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the Twenty‐First Century. London: Zed Books, 2015. Appendix, bibliography, index, 312 pp.; paperback, ebook. Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, and Michiel Baud, eds., Environmental Governance in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Tables, figures, map, bibliography, index, 350 pp.; hardcover $31, ebook. Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis, eds., Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 296 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook. Joseph S. Tulchin, Latin America in International Politics: Challenging U.S. Hegemony. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2016. Bibliography, index, 235 pp.; hardcover $60. Kevin P. Gallagher, The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 256 pp.; hardcover $27.95, ebook.     

The New Political Economy of Natural Resources in Latin America

Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury, eds., Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 361 pp.; hardcover $60, paperback $30. Noel Maurer, The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Illustrations, map, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index, 568 pp.; hardcover $39.50; ebook available. Michael L. Ross, The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Illustrations, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, bibliography, index, 312 pp.; paperback $22.95, ebook available. Elana Shever, Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, index, 231 pp.; hardcover $70, paperback $22.95, ebook $22.95.     

Book Reviews

Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts, A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. Table, figure, notes, bibliography, index, 274 pp.; hardcover $55, paperback $30, ebook $21. Owen Logan, John‐Andrew McNeish, and Axel Borchgrevink, eds., Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America. London: Zed Books, 2015. Tables, figures, bibliographies, index, 366 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $28.95, ebook. Barbara Fritz and Lena Lavinas, eds., A Moment of Equality for Latin America? Challenges for Redistribution. Burlington: Ashgate, 2015. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 284 pp.: hardcover $95.96, ebook. Mala Htun, Inclusion Without Representation in Latin America: Gender Quotas and Ethnic Reservations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Tables, figures, acronyms, appendixes, bibliography, index, 226 pp.; paperback $29.99. Koonings, Kees, and Dirk Kruijt, eds., Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities. London: Zed Books, 2015. Figures, tables, 208 pp.; paperback $29.95, ebook. Miguel Carter, ed., Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Photographs, maps, tables, figures, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 544 pp.; hardcover $109.95, paperback $31.95. J. Patrice McSherry, Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s–1973. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2015. Notes, index, 229 pp.; hardcover $97.50, paperback $44.95, ebook $44.95. Bruce M. Bagley and Jonathan D. Rosen, eds., Colombia's Political Economy at the Outset of the Twenty‐First Century: From Uribe to Santos and Beyond. New York: Lexington Books, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 354 pp.; hardcover $100, ebook $99.99. Amy Reynolds, Free Trade and Faithful Globalization: Saving the Market. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 198 pp.; hardcover $93, ebook $72.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Christopher Darnton, Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Figures, tables, notes, index, 285 pp.; paperback $40.46, Kindle $35.96. Flavia Freidenberg and Julieta Suárez‐Cao, eds., Territorio y poder: nuevos actores y competencia política en los sistemas de partidos multinivel en América Latina. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2014. Tables, figures, bibliography, appendix, 386 pp.; paperback. Richard Sandbrook, Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 309 pp.; paperback $34.99. Ignacio Walker, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair. Translated by Krystin Krause, Holly Bird, and Scott Mainwaring. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Bibliography, index, 262 pp.; paperback $38. Aaron Ansell, Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 256 pp.; paperback $32.95. Ronald H. Chilcote, Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth‐Century Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Bibliography, index, 306 pp.; hardcover $99, ebook. Charles Amo‐Yartey and Therese Turner‐Jones, eds., Caribbean Renewal: Tackling Fiscal and Debt Challenges. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2014. Tables, bibliography, index, 314 pp.; paperback $25, e‐book $9.99. Matthew Louis Bishop, The Political Economy of Caribbean Development. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, 257 pp.; hardcover $95, ebook, pdf. Rose J. Spalding, Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Tables, figures, appendixes, bibliography, index, 334 pp.; hardcover $60; paperback $29.95. Thomas C. Wright, Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Acronyms, notes, bibliography, index, 206 pp.; hardcover $55. Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Photographs, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 352 pp.; hardcover $99.95, paperback $26.95, Kindle $14.55.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Andrea C. Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, eds., Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America: A Space for Social Citizenship? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Abbreviations, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 317 pp.; hardcover $109, ebook $84.99. Barry Cannon, The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State. New York: Routledge, 2016. Tables, bibliography, index, 182 pp.; hardcover $127.50, paperback $44.59. Jordi Díez, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Bibliography, index, 301 pp.; hardcover $48.99, paperback $29.99, ebook $24. Julio Ríos‐Figueroa, Constitutional Courts as Mediators: Armed Conflict, Civil‐Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 256 pp.; hardcover $110, paperback $34.99, ebook $88. María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord, Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America. London: Zed Books, 2016. Bibliography, index, 224 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $29.95, ebook $23.96. Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira, Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Illustrations, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 280 pp.; hardcover $39.50, ebook. Sean W. Burges, Brazil in the World: The International Relations of a South American Giant. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 296 pp.; hardcover $115, paperback $32.95, ebook. Alejandro Velasco, Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index, 321 pp.; paperback $29.95. Tiffany D. Barnes, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Map, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 274 pp.; hardcover $99.99, paperback $34.99, ebook $28. Judith Teichman, The Politics of Inclusive Development: Policy, Sate Capacity, and Coalition Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Figures, bibliography, index, 261 pp.; hardcover $109, ebook $84.99.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ARGUMENTS ABOUT ABORIGINES: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology By L. R. Watt. ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY: Reflections on Race, State and Nation By Henry Reynolds. OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Johann Reinhol Forster. PEOPLE, PLACES AND POLICES: Aspects of Queensland Administration 1859–1920 Edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wiltshire. AN AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRAT: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark Edited by Marcus Howard and James Warden. WITH LANE IN PARAGUAY: Harry Taylor of The Murray Pioneer 1873–1932 Edited, with a biographical sketch, by Don Gobbett and Malcolm Sounders. A VERITABLE DYNAMO: Lloyd Ross and Australian Labour 1901–1987 By Stephen Holt. ANZUS IN REVISION: Changing Defense Features of Australia and New Zealand in the Mid-1980s By Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Donnini. THE 1992 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTION: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics Edited by Yaw Saffu. THE RIGHT ROAD: A History of Right-Wing Politics in Australia By Andrew Moore. POLITICS ONE Randall G. Stewart and Ian Ward. THE STATE IN QUESTION: Transformations of the Australian State Edited by Paul James. WE THE PEOPLE Edited by George Winterton. PEOPLE POLICY: Australia's Population Choices By Doug Cocks. A CONCISE HISTORY OF WORLD POPULATION By Massimo Livi-Bacci. Translated by Carl Ipsen. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846–1922 By Corinne Comstock Weston ELIXIR OF EMPIRE: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism By P. J. Rich. NATIONALISM IN EUROPE, 1815 TO THE PRESENT: A Reader Edited by Stuart Woolf. IMPERIAL GERMANY 1867–1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State By Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Richard Devesnn. FROM A ONE-PARTY STATE TO DEMOCRACY: Transition in Eastern Europe Edited by Janina Frentzel-Zagórska. THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing By Frank N. Pieke THE EGALITARIAN MOMENT: Asia and Africa 1950–1980 By Anthony Low. INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KENYA: The “Indian” Dimension of the Debate By Michael Cowen and Scott MacWilliam ETHICAL PRACTICE IN GOVERNMENT: Improving Organisational Management Edited by John Uhr. DEMOCRACY AND THE GLOBAL ORDER: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance By David Held. COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Studies Under the Upas Tree Edited by Anthony J. Parel and Ronald C. Keith     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Peter Andreas and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. The Rebordering of North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context. Glen Biglaiser, Guardians of the Nation? Economists, Generals, and Economic Reform in Latin America Sinclair Thomson, We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Znsurgency. Alfred P. Montero, Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain. Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds. Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict     

The United Arab Emirates: economic vibrancy and US interests

Based in Tucson, Arizona, Dr J. E. Peterson is a historian and political scientist specializing in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf. He received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and has taught at several academic institutions in the USA and worked for the US government and various research institutes. Until 1999, he served as the Historian of the Sultan's Armed Forces in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defence in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, and he spent 2000–2001 at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. His books include The Arab Gulf States: Steps Toward Political Participation (Praeger, for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1988), Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia (Scarecrow Press, 1993; 2^nd ed. Scarecrow Press, 2003) and Defending Oman: A History of the Sultan's Armed Forces (forthcoming). He has written an Adelphi Paper, Saudi Arabia and the Illusion of Security (2002). His articles on ‘Saudi-American Relations after September 11’ and ‘Bahrain's First Steps Towards Reform Under Amir Hamad’ appeared in recent issues of Asian Affairs. Dr Peterson's website is www.JEPeterson.net     

Recent books on colonial Algerian history

Land Policy in Colonial Algeria: The Origins of the Rural Public Domain (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967).

Histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine: la conquête et les débuts de la colonization (1827–1871) (Paris, 1964).

Les Algériens musulmans et la France, 1871–1919 (Paris, 1968).

France and Algeria: The Problem of Civil and Political Reform, 1870–1920 (Syracuse 1966)

Le réformisme musulman en Algérie de 1925 a 1940. Essai d'histoire religieuse et sociale (Paris and The Hague, 1967)     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Craig Arceneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, eds., Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Consuelo Cruz, Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics. Carmelo Mesa‐Lago and Jorge Pérez‐López, Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies. Damián J. Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational. Paul Lawrence Haber, Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late‐Twentieth‐Century Mexico. Leslie Anderson and Lawrence Dodd, Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990‐2001. Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.     

A preliminary to decolonizing the historiography of Shaykh Mansur

Sharpudin B. Akhmadov. Imam Mansur. (Narodno‐osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie v Chechne i na Severnom Kavkaze v kontse XVIII v.) [Imam Mansur (The National Liberation Movement in Chechnia and in the Northern Caucasus at the End of the Eighteenth Century).] Groznyi: Checheno‐Ingushskoe izdatel'stvo — poligraficheskoe ob'edinenie ‘Kniga’, 1991, pp.287,

The Reform of the Qur'an and the Prophecies of the Modernizing, Enlightened and Watchful Prophet Sheikh Mansur, which was on sale in Florence in the summer of 1786.     

Book reviews

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.