Book Reviews

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.     

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. 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.     

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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue Francisco E. González, Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America. Tina Hilgers, ed., Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics. Daniel E. Levine, Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America. Cas Muddle and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil. María de los Angeles Fernández Ramil and Eugenio Rivera Urrutia, eds., La trastienda del gobierno: el eslabón perdido en la modernización del estado chileno. Marc Becker, ¡Pachakutik! Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador. Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies. Barry S. Levitt, Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond. George Ciccariello‐Maher, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution.     

Book Reviews

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. 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.     

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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

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

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

Books reviewed in this issue. Steve Ellner, ed., Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty‐First Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Bibliography, index, 306 pp.; hardcover $94, paperback $33, ebook $31.99. Kenneth M. Roberts, Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography, index, 330 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $34.99, ebook $28. Kurt Weyland, Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America Since the Revolutions of 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 326 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $29.99, ebook $24. Rebecca Weitz‐Shapiro, Curbing Clientelism in Argentina: Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2014. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 206 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Miriam Shakow, Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Figures, table, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; hardcover $65, ebook $65. Paul Almeida, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 216 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $29.95, ebook $29.95. Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco R. Rodríguez, eds., Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 488 pp.; hardcover $119, paperback $35.95. Carew Boulding, NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Melani Cammett and Lauren M. Maclean, eds., The Politics of Non‐state Social Welfare. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 328 pp.; hardcover $79.95, paperback $29.95.     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez, eds., Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA. Eduardo Rojas, Juan R. Cuadrado‐Roura, and José Miguel Fernández Güell, eds., Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases. Translated by Sarah Schineller. Nita Rudra, Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? Merike Blofield, The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Yanna P. Yannakakis, The Art of Being In‐between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca.     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Mauricio Font, The State and the Private Sector in Latin America: The Shift to Partnership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Figure, bibliography, appendixes, index, 318 pp.; hardcover $100, ebook $79.99. Tracy Beck Fenwick, Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Tables, figures, acronyms, bibliography, index, 277 pp.; hardcover $75, paperback $29. Michael Reid, Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016 [2014]. Illustrations, 352 pp.; paperback $22. Ben Ross Schneider, ed., New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 328 pp.; hardcover $99, paperback $31.95, ebook. Anthony P. Maingot, Race, Ideology, and the Decline of Caribbean Marxism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Index, 368 pp.; hardcover $79.95. Sebastián Ureta, Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World‐Class Society. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. Photographs, figures, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 224 pp.; hardcover $39, ebook $27. Carlos de la Torre, De Velasco a Correa: insurreciones, populismos y elecciones en Ecuador, 1944–2013. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2015. Tables, bibliography, 243 pp.; paperback. Sebastian E. Bitar, US Military Bases, Quasi‐Bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Map, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 220 pp.; hardcover $110, ebook $79.99.