Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Garretón M., Manuel Antonio, and Edward Newman, eds. Democracy in Latin America: (Re)constructing Political Society.
Joseph, Gilbert M., ed. Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North.
O'Dougherty, Maureen. Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil.
Carey, David, Jr. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives.
Stephen, Lynn./ Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Sampson Vera Tudela, Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Sprituality in Mexico
Archer, Wars of Independence in Spanish America
Bergad, Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888
McFarlane and Posado-Carbó, Independence and Revolution in Spanish America: Perspectives and Problems
Earle, Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1800–1825
Zimmermann, Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Nugent, Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes
Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony ti the Revolution
Benjamin, La Revolució: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Spenser, The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s
Buve and Weisebron, Procesos de Integración en América Latina: Perspectivas y Experiencias Latinoamericanas y Europeas
Edelman, Peasants Against Globalisation: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
Pelupessy and Ruben, Agrarian Policies in Central America
Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Hite, When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left
Aguirre and Buffington, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
Craske, Women and Politics in Latin America
Beverley, Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory
Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
Goslinga, Caribbean Literature: A Bibliography
San Román, Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

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

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Hassig Time, History and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
Baskes Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821
Caldeira City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
Caulfield In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Earle Rumours of Wars: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Clarke Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca's Peasantries
Jones and Munck, (eds) Cultural Politics in Latin America
CEDLA FRONTERAS: Towards A Borderless Latin America
Tulchin and Garland Social Development in Latin America. The Politics of Reform
Paley Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile
Crabtree and Whitehead (eds) Towards Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience
Bailey and Godson (eds) Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands
Adams Dollar Diplomacy: United States Economic Assistance to Latin America
Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations: Critical Theories/Problematic Practices
Angell, Lowden Thorpe Decentralizing Development: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Colombia and Chile
Itzigsohn Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
Nencel Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru
Potter Deeper than Debt: Economic globalisation and the poor     

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

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

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Avritzer, Leonardo. Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America.
Demmers, J. [Jolle], A.[Alex] E. Fernández Jilberto, and B. [Barbara] Hegenboom, eds. Miraculous Metamorphoses: The Neoliberalisation of Latin American Populism.
Domingo, Pilar, and Rachel Sieder, eds. Rule of Law in Latin America: The International Promotion of Judicial Reform.
Franco, Andrés, ed. Financing For Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mahoney, James. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America.
Herz, Monica, and João Pontes Nogueira. Ecuador vs. Peru: Peacemaking Amid Rivalry.
Bailey, John, and Jorge Chabat, eds. Transnational Crime and Public Security: Challenges to Mexico and the United States.
Hart, John Mason. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War.
Williams, Heather L. Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico.
Williams, Mark Eric. Market Reforms in Mexico: Coalitions, Institutions, and the Politics of Policy Change.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Manzetti, Luigi, ed. Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post-Privatization Realities .
Miller, Nicola. In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America .
Roniger, Luis, and Mario Sznajder. The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay .
García-Johnson, Ronie. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico .
Jonas, Susanne. Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process .
Benjamin, Thomas. La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History .
Crisp, Brian. Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politicians and Interest Groups .
Moreno, Alejandro. Political Cleavages: Issues, Parties, and the Consolidation of Democracy .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga, eds. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change.
Fabián Echegaray, Economic Crises and Electoral Responses in Latin America.
Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire.
Arie M. Kacowicz, The Impact of Norms in International Society: The Latin American Experience, 1881–2001.
Cristina Rojas and Judy Meltzer, eds., Elusive Peace: International, National, and Local Dimensions of Conflict in Colombia.
Mauricio Solaún, U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua.
Catherine M. Conaghan, Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere.
Moisés Arce, Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru.     

Book reviews

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

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales, eds., Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left.
Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Diego Abente Brun, eds., Latin America's Struggle for Democracy.
Thad Dunning, Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes.
Silvina Gvirtz and Jason Beech, eds., Going to School in Latin America.
John A. Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson, The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations.
Vicente Palermo, Sal en las heridas. Las Malvinas en la cultura argentina contemporánea.
Ivani Vassoler, Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions, and Governance Lessons.
Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chávez Metoyer, Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy, and Policy.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: García Canclini, Nestor (trans. Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvina L. López (1995), Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Beverley, John, Oviedo, José and Aronna, Michael (eds) (1995), The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America Stuempfle, Stephen (1996), The Steelband Movement: the Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago Browning, Barbara (1995) Samba: Resistance in Motion Vargas, Lucila (1995), Social Uses and Radio Practices: the Use of Participatory Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico Paranagua, Paulo Anntonio (ed.) (1995), Mexican Cinema Valderrama Fernández, Ricardo and Escalante Gutierrez, Carmen (original eds), Gelles, Paul H. and Martinez Escobar, Gabriela (translation, annotations and revised glossary) (1996) Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe HuamPn Hendrickson, Carol (1995) Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town Morales, Edmundo (1995) The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes Brandon, George. (1993), Santeria from Africa to the New World: the Dead Sell Memories Peña, Milagros (1995) Theologies and Liberation in Peru: the Role of Ideas in Social Movements Lovell, W. George (1995) A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala Starn, Orin, Degregori, Carlos Ivan and Kirk, Robin (eds) (1995), The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics Bethell, Leslie (ed.) (1996) Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. 10. Latin America since 1930: Ideas, Culture and Society Helg, Aline (1995) Our Rightful Share: the Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886–1912 Brunk, S. (1995), Emiliano Zapata: Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico Di Tella, Torcuato S. (1996) National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, 1820–1847 Mallon, Florencia E. (1995), Peasant and Nation: the Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru Posada-Garbó, Eduardo (1996) The Colombian Caribbean: a Regional History, 187&1950 Joseph, Gilbert M. and Szuchman, Mark D. (eds) (1996), I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America Walter, Richard J. (1994), Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires: 191&1942 Kleinpenning, Jan M. G. (1995), Peopling the Purple Land: a Historical Geography of Rural Uruguay, 1500–1915 Avellaneda, José Ignacio (1995), The Conquerors of the New Kingdom of Granada Craig, Alan K. and West, Robert C. (eds) (1994), In Quest of Mineral Wealth. Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America Velázquez, Primo Feliciano (1995, 3rd edition), Codex Chimalpopoca Bierhorst, John (1992) History and Mythology of the Aztecs: the Codex Chimalpopoca Nickson, R. Andrew (1995), Local Government in Latin America Smith, Hazel (1995), European Union Foreign Policy and Central America Bresser Pereira, Luiz C. (1996), Economic Crisis and State Reform in Brazil: Toward a New Interpretation of Latin America Camp, Roderic Ai (1993), Political Recruitment Across Two Centuries: Mexico, 1884–1991 Mainwaring, Scott and Scully, Timothy R. (eds) (1995), Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America Haggard, Stephan and Kaufman, Robert R. (1995), The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions Ryan, David (1995), US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations: Voice of Intolerance Hall, Linda B. (1995), Oil, Banks and Politics: the United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917–1924 Philip, George (1994), Political Economy of International Oil Jones, Richard C. (1995), Ambivalent Journey: US Migration and Economic Mobility in North Central Mexico Dosal, Paul J. (1993), Doing Business with the Dictators: a Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899–1944 Jenkins, Rhys (1995), Trade Liberaiisation and Manufacturing in Bolivia Frenkel, Roberto (ed.) (1994), Strengthening the Financial Sector in the Adjustment Process Morley, Samuel A. (1995) Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: the Impact of Adjustment and Recovery Lustig, Nora (ed.) (1995) Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America Pattullo, Polly (1996) Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean Murray, Douglas L. (1995) Cultivating Crisis: the Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America Chevalier, Jacques M. and Buckles, Daniel (1995) A Land Without Gods: Process Theory, Maldevelopment and the Mexican Nahuas Peritore, N. Patrick and Galve-Peritore, Ana Karina (eds) (1995), Biotechnology in Latin America: Politics, Impacts and Risks Stewart, Douglas I. (1994), After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway Simonian, Lane (1995), Defending the Land of the Jaguar: a History of Conservation in Mexico Bose, Christine E. and Acosta-Belén, B. Edna (eds) (1995), Women in the Latin American Development Process Alatorre, Javier, Careaga Gloria, Jusidman, Clara, Salles, Vania, Talamante, Cecilia and Townsend, John (1994), Las mujeres en la pobreza, El Colegio de Mexico and Grupo Interdisciplinario sobre Mujer Johnston, Francis E. and Low, Setha M. (1995), Children of the Urban Poor: the Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development, and Malnutrition in Guatemala Schneider, Cathy Lisa (1995), Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile Fiddian, Robin (ed.) (1995), Garcia Márquez Marzan, Julio (1995), The Numinous Site: the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos O'Connell, Joanna (1995), Prospero's Daughter: the Prose of Rosario Castellanos Bergman, Emilie L. and Smith, Paul Julian (eds) (1995), ¿Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings Agosín, Marjorie (ed.) (1995) A Dream of Light and Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers Halperin Donghi, Tulio, Jaksié, Iván, Kirkpatrick, Gwen, and Masiello, Francine (eds) (1994), Sarmiento, Author of a Nation     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Merilee Grindle, Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform.
Daniel M. Masterson, with Sayaka Funada-Classen, The Japanese in Latin America.
Jeffrey Lesser, ed., Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism.
Peter H. Smith, Jennifer L. Troutner, and Christine Hunefeldt, eds., Promises of Empowerment: Women in Asia and Latin America.
Ben Ross Schneider, Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America.
Rebecca Bill ChBvez, The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial Politics in Argentina.
Peter Winn, ed., Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1975–2002.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Andy Baker, The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies.
Mona M. Lyne, The Voter's Dilemma and Democratic Accountability: Latin America and Beyond.
María Victoria Murillo, Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities.
Krister Andersson, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, and Frank van Laerhoven, Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru.
Amy Nunn, The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil.
Arturo Escobar, Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes.
Marion Kaplan, Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940–1945.
Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Burns Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Socolow The Women of Colonial Latin America
Dunkerley Americana. The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or 'Seeing the Elephant' as the Theme for an Imaginary Western)
Wasserman Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico. Men, Women and War
Alonso Between Revolution and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party
Peard Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine
Iverleigh The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival
Dore and Molyneaux Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America
Ehlers Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
Townsend, Zapata, Rowlands, Alberti and Mercado, eds Women and Power: Fighting Patriarchies and Poverty
Higgins and Coen Streets, Bedrooms and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity of Urban Oaxaca
Vila Crossing Borders – Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the US–Mexico Frontier
Rochín and Valdés Voices of a New Chicano/o History
Flores From Bomba to Hip-hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
Early and Peters The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics
Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba
Hall Amazonia At The Crossroads: the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Clifton The Politics of Telecommunications in Mexico: Privatization and State-Labour Relations, 1982–1995     

Book Reviews

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