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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.     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Feinberg, Richard E. Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report. Lipsey, Richard G., and Patricio Meller, eds. Western Hemisphere Trade Integration: A Canadian-Latin American Dialogue. Gill, Anthony. Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America. Joyce, Elizabeth, and Carlos Malamud, eds. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade. Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and William C. Smith, eds. Latin America in the World Economy. Smith, William C., and Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, eds. Politics, Social Change, and Economic Restructuring in Latin America. Tardanico, Richard, and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds. Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America. Peeler, John A. Building Democracy in Latin America. Atkins, G. Pope, and Larman C. Wilson. The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism. The United States and the Americas series, vol. 11. Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic. Falcoff, Mark. Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What It Wants.     

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

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

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

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

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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.     

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

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

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

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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.     

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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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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.     

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

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

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Books reviewed in this issue. 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.