Poetry in Review: Robert Lowell

Book reviewed in this article:
Robert Lowell (edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter), Collected Poems     

Commission Newsletter: Winter 1981

I.A.A. Thompson: Crown and Cortes. Government, Institutions and Representation in Early‐Modern Castile (Variorum, Collected Studies Series CS 427, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 1993, pp. 352; ISBN 0–86078–393–6; £49.50)

Janusz Mallek: Preußen und Polen: Politik, Stände, Kirche und Kultur vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. Schriften der Mainzer Philosophischen Fakultätsgesellschaft Nr. 12, pp. 207; ISBN 3–515–05943–1; DM 58)

Cristiana Senigaglia: Il gioco delle assonanze: a proposito degli influssi hobbesiani sul pensiero filosofico‐politico di Hegel (Florence, La Nuova Italia, 1992, pp. 235)     

Eco‐Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History

Eco‐Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo and Emily O'Gorman (London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), pp. xvi + 323. 20 Illustrations. £65.00 (cloth).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Daniela Campello, The Politics of Market Discipline in Latin America: Globalization and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 239 pp.; hardcover $78.42, paperback $29.99, Kindle $98.40. Eduardo Dargent, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America: The Experts Running Government. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Tables, figures, bibliography, index. 216 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Ana Lorena De La O, Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America: The Quiet Transformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 194 pp.; hardcover $84.99, ebook $68. Jorge Heine and Brigitte Weiffen, 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas: Standing Up for the Polity. New York: Routledge, 2015. Abbreviations, tables, bibliography, index, 196 pp.; hardcover $130, paperback $47. Juan Pablo Luna, Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Tables, maps, figures, bibliography, indexes, 374 pp.; hardcover $115, ebook. Stephen Offutt, New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Map, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, bibliography, index, 192 pp.; hardcover $90, ebook $72. Mariela Szwarcberg, Mobilizing Poor Voters: Machine Politics, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Argentina. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 185 pp.; hardcover $89.99, paperback $32.99, ebook $26. Brian Wampler, Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Tables, figures, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 312 pp.; paperback $39, pdf $39. Graham Denyer Willis, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index, 216 pp.; hardcover $70, paperback $29.95, ebook $29.95. Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle over U.S. Policy Toward Chile. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Abbreviations, acronyms, bibliography, index, 354 pp.; hardcover $95, paperback $34.99, ebook $28.     

Old and New Forms of Civic Engagement

Maxwell A. Cameron, Eric Hershberg, and Kenneth E. Sharpe, eds., New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 263 pp.; hardcover $100, paperback $30. Jean‐Paul Faguet, Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 372 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $35, e‐book $35. Sharon F. Lean, Civil Society and Electoral Accountability in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 197 pp.; hardcover $95; ebook. Eduardo Silva, ed., Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide. New York: Routledge, 2013. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 212 pp.; hardcover $140, paperback $42.95. Guillermo Trejo, Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 339 pp.; hardcover $109.99, paperback $27.99, e‐book $22.     

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:
Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, (eds.) Central Asian Security: The New International Context
Lawrence Davidson, America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood
A. J. Sherman, Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948
Barry Rubin, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics — From Revolution to State-Building
Geneive Abdo, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Charles M. Sennott, The Body and the Blood: The Holy Land's Christians and the Turn of a New Millennium     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: STRIKES: Studies in Twentieth Century Australian Social History. Edited by John Iremonger, John Merrit and Graeme Osborne. THE STUART AFFAIR. By Sir Roderic Chamberlain. THE EVIDENCE OF THE BIGGE REPORTS: New South Wales under Governor Macquarie. Selected and edited by John Ritchie. HISTORICAL RECORDS OF PORT PHILLIP: The First Annals of the Colony of Victoria. Edited by John J. Shillinglaw. THE MACQUARIE DECADE: Documents illustrating the History of New South Wales 1810–1821. AUSTRALIAN NAVAL ADMINISTRATION 1900–1939. By R. Hyslop. CRISES AND AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMACY. By C. Bell. BRITISH DEFENCE POLICY EAST OF SUEZ. By P. Darby. DEFENCE PERSPECTIVES. Edited by K. Keith. THE MODERNISATION IMPERATIVE AND INDIAN PLANNING. By Baldev Raj Nayar. INDIA'S DEMOCRACY. By A.H. Hanson and Janet Douglas. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Pp. 236. Two tables. $9.65, $4.35 paper. GANDHI'S RISE TO POWER: Indian Politics 1915–1922. By Judith M. Brown. EVERY FIFTH CHILD: The Population of China. By Leo A. Orleans. THE CHINESE YOUTH PARTY 1923–1945. By Chan Lau Kit-ching. WAGE PATTERNS AND WAGE POLICY IN MODERN CHINA 1919–1972. By Christopher Howe. THE INTERNAL POLITICS OF CHINA 1949–1972. By Jüirgen Domes. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, 1826–67: Indian Presidency to Crown Colony. By C.M. Turnbull. VITI: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands 1860–1861. By Berthold Seemann; edited by Philip A. Snow. Colonial History Series Number 85. THE FOUNDERS OF CANTERBURY. Edited by Edward Jerningham Wakefield; and an introduction by Peter Burroughs. Colonial History Series Number 86. A VOYAGE TO AND FROM THE ISLAND OF BORNEO. By Daniel Beeckman; and an introduction by Chin Yoon Fong. Colonial History Series Number 87. CONFLICT BEHAVIOUR AND LINKAGE POLITICS. Edited by Jonathan Wilkenfeld. POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES: Studies in National, Comparative and International Politics. Edited by Dusan Sidjanski. THE POLITICS OF MOTION: The World of Thomas Hobbes. By T.A. Spragens jr. DEPENDENCE AND OPPORTUNITY: Political Change in Ahafo. By John Dunn and A.F. Robertson. THE PRICE OF LIBERTY: Personality and Politics in Colonial Nigeria. By Kenneth W.J. Post and George D. Jenkins. FROM RESISTANCE TO REVOLUTION: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776. By Pauline Maier. ELITE ACCOMMODATION IN CANADIAN POLITICS. By Robert Presthus. THE SELECTION OF NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS IN CANADA. By John C. Courtney. THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES ON CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT: Eleven Case Studies. Edited by Richard A. Preston. ANGLO-AMERICAN POLITICS, 1660–1765: The Relationship between Parties in England and Colonial America. By A.G. Olson. THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF SOCIALISM: Collected Essays. By Wlodzimierz Brus. THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD AFFAIRS: A Documented Analysis, 1964–1972. By W.W. Kulski. HITLERS STRATEGY 1940–41: The Balkan Clue. By Martin L. van Crefeld. HITLERS FREE CITY: A History of the Nazi Party in Danzig, 1925–39. By Herbert S. Levine. FRENCH CAPITALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Guy P. Palmade. Translated with an Introduction by Graeme M. Holmes. THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE: French Popular Protest, 1789–1820. By R.C. Cobb. TURGOT ON PROGRESS, SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Ronald L. Meek. LAFAYETTE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: From the October Days through the Federation. By Louis Gottschalk and Margaret Maddox. THE MEN OF THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC: Political alignments in the National Convention of 1792. By Alison Patrick. THE PRO-BOERS: The Anatomy of Antiwar Movement. Edited with an introduction by Stephen Koss. THE BALANCE POINT BETWEEN LOCAL AUTONOMY AND NATIONAL CONTROL. By S.E.M. Sadek. UMNAO AND THE PRICE OF LASTING PEACE. By Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Lillian T. Mower.     

New Labour: what's published is what counts

Books reviewed in this article:
Barrett-Brown, M. and Coates, K. (1996) The Blair Revelation: Deliverance for Whom?
Blackburn, R. and Plant, R. (eds) (1999) The Labour Government's Constitutional Reform Agenda.
Blair, T. (1996) New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country.
Brivati, B. and Bale, T. (eds) (1997) New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects.
Crewe, I., Gosschalk, B. and Bartle, J. (1998) Political Communications: Why Labour Won the General Election of 1997
Denver, D., Fisher, J., Cowley, P. and Pattie, C. (1998) British Elections and Parties Review, Volume 8: The 1997 General Election.
Driver, S. and Martell, L. (1998) New Labour: Politics after Thatcherism.
Ellison, N. (1994) Egalitarian Thought and Labour Politics: Retreating Visions.
Gamble, A. and Wright, T. (1999) The New Social Democracy.
Geddes, A. and Tonge, J. (eds) (1997) Labour's Landslide: The British General Election 1997.
Giddens, A. (1998) The Third Way: the Renewal of Social Democracy.
Hay, C. (1999) The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring under False Pretences?
Hazell, R. (ed.) (1999) Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years.
Jones, T. (1996) Remaking the Labour Party: From Gaitskell to Blair.
Shaw, E. (1996) The Labour Party Since 1945.
Taylor, G. (1997) Labour's Renewal? The Policy Review and Beyond.
Thompson, N. (1996) Political Economy and the Labour Party: The Economics of Democratic Socialism 1884–1995.
Worcester, R. and Mortimore, R. (1999) Explaining Labour's Landslide.     

A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal,Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice: Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack

A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice. By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), pp. xvi + 521. US$35.00. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack. By Steve Twomey (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), pp. xvi + 368. US$30.00.     

The hollowing-out of local democracy and the 'fatal conceit' of governing without government

Books reviewed in this article:
Stewart, J., The Nature of British Local Government
Stoker, G. (ed.), The New Management of British Local Governance
Stoker, G. (ed.), The New Politics of British Local Governance     

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.     

Brazil at a Crossroads

Marcus André Melo and Carlos Pereira, Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a Multiparty System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $100, paperback $95, ebook $69.99. Marcos Mendes, Inequality, Democracy, and Growth in Brazil: A Country at the Crossroads of Economic Development. London: Elsevier, 2014. Glossary, index, 280 pp.; paperback $49.95. Jeffrey D. Needell, ed., Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 322 pp.; hardcover $79.95. Oliver Stuenkel and Matthew M. Taylor, eds., Brazil on the Global Stage: Power, Ideas, and the Liberal International Order. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 245 pp.; hardcover $100, ebook $79.99.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: “Rats and Revolutionaries”: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940. By James Bennett John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers. By David Black and Lesley Wallace Ten Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants. By A. James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia. By Joy Damousi Terms of Trust: Arguments over Ethics in Australian Government. By John Uhr A Trial Separation: Australia and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea By Donald Denoon An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra. By Anthony Reid Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories. By Robert Aldrich     

Diplomatic Rivalries and Cultural One-upmanship: New Zealand’s Long Quest to Become More Pacific than Australia

Abstract

New Zealand’s governmental and non-governmental agencies, academic commentators and media have long framed the country as uniquely and favourably positioned on cultural grounds to be a strategic diplomatic actor in the South Pacific. Justifications for the framing stem from two linked complexes: the history of New Zealand’s colonial and post-colonial involvement in a number of Polynesian territories in the Pacific; and the related history of relations between settlers and indigenes in New Zealand itself. These different strands of the argument have increasingly been brought together by the growth in numbers of New Zealand-born and domiciled Pacific Islanders. They, along with Maori, have been recruited into the diplomatic service and overtly contribute to the use of Polynesian encounter rituals in New Zealand’s diplomatic outreach. Such histories are used to justify New Zealand’s role in the Pacific in its relations with other external powers, especially in diplomatic jostling with Australia. The claims to special insight and cultural capital are subjected to critical scrutiny.     

Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator

Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator . By Oleg V. Khlevniuk. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (New Haven and London: Yale university Press, 2015), pp.xvi + 392. Notes. Photographs. Index. AU$64.00 (cloth), distributed by Footprint Books in Australia.     

Landmine clearance and land resettlement in Cambodia: Agents of rural development

Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. Paperback, ISBN: 9781592403158, 640 pages.

Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. UK, US: Macmillan, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780230016545, 871 pages.

Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 0571221025, 496 pages.

Alex Thomson, An Introduction to African Politics (second edition). London: Routledge, 2004. Paperback, ISBN: 9780415282611, 284 pages.

Lorna Lloyd, Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. Leiden and Boston: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9789004154971, 353 pages.

Ali A Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780300136142, 518 pages.

Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope. New York: Threshold Editions, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781416540588, 419 pages.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Toronto: Alfred A Knopf, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781400044870, 320 page's.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Owl Books, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 0805080082, 384 pages.

George Packer, The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Hardcover, ISBN: 0374299633, 481 pages.     

Iranian balances

Roots of Revolution, An Interpretive History of Modern Iran, by Nikki R. Keddie with a Section by Yann Richard. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp.321.

Continuity and Change in Modern Iran edited by Michael Bonine and Nikki R. Keddie, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp.359.     

Book notes

King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan by Mary C.Wilson. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.xxii + 289, index. £25

War and Intervention in Lebanon: The Israeli‐Syrian Deterrence Dialogue, by Yair Evron; London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1987; pp.x–246.

The Palestinian Entity 1959–1974: Arab politics and the PLO, by Moshe Shemesh; London, Frank Cass, 402 pp.1988. £35.00.

Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City by Yehoshua Ben‐Arieh. Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi; New York: St Martin's Press, 1984. Pp.438, index. No price given. Jerusalem in the 19th Century: Emergence of the New City by Yehoshua Ben‐Arieh. Jerusalem: Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi; New York: St Martin's Press, 1986. Pp.198, index. No price given.

The Jews in Palestine 1800–1882, by Tudor Parfitt. Pp.xiii + 243 tables, footnotes, bibliography, notes, glossary, index. The Royal Historical Society, The Boydell Press, Exeter, 1987. £25.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Virginia Garrard‐Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Julio E. Moreno, eds., Beyond the Eagle's Shadow: New Histories of Latin America's Cold War. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Figures, table, 352 pp.; hardcover $55. Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Illustrations, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 392 pp.; hardcover $69.95, paperback $34.95, ebook $34.95. Ernesto Calvo, Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography index, 232 pp.; hardcover $95, ebook $76. Alison E. Post, Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 263 pp.; hardcover $95, ebook $76. Silvia Posocco, Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014. Illustrations, 272 pp.; hardcover $49.95, ebook $49.95. Charles Bowden, Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. New York: Nation Books, 2011. Figures, tables, index, 360 pp.; paperback $16.99, ebook $16.99. Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden, eds., El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin. New York: Nation Books, 2011. Figures, tables, index, 224 pp.; paperback $15.99, ebook $15.99. Suzanne Simon, Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the U.S.‐Mexico Border. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. Notes, bibliography, index, 240 pp.; hardcover $55, ebook $9.99. Charles F. Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 376 pp.; hardcover $29.95. Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras, and Scott Mainwaring, eds., Reflections on Uneven Democracies: The Legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, chronology, index, 432 pp.; hardcover $69.95, paperback $34.95, ebook $34.95.