The editorial office receives a number of edited volumes and other texts that will be of interest to our readership. When these works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, we list them here. To introduce these volumes, we include the publication information and tables of contents. The volumes selected for this issue include recently received anthologies.

The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola. By Milagros Ricourt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Pp. 187. $90.00 cloth; $27.95 paper.

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Border at the Crossroad

Chapter 3: The Creolization of Race

Chapter 4: Cimarrones: The Seed of Subversion

Chapter 5: Criollismo Religioso

Chapter 6: Race, Identity, and Nation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization. By Christopher R. W. Dietrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $34.99 paper.

Introduction: The Cash-Value of Decolonization

Chapter 1: One Periphery: The Creation of Sovereign Rights, 1949–1955

Chapter 2: Past Concessions: The Arab League, Sovereign Rights, and OPEC, 1955–1960

Chapter 3: Histories of Petroleum Colonization: Oil Elites and Sovereign Rights, 1960–1967

Chapter 4: Rights and Failure: The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo

Chapter 5: Nationalist Heroes: Imperial Withdrawal, the Cold War, and Oil Control, 1967–1970

Chapter 6: A Turning Point of Our History: The Insurrectionists and Oil, 1970–1971

Chapter 7: A Fact of Life: The Consolidation of Sovereign Rights, 1971–1973

Chapter 8: The OPEC Syndrome: The Third World's Energy Crisis, 1973–1975.

Conclusion: Dead by Its Own Law

Appendix I: Chronology

Appendix II: Anticolonial Elites

Bibliography

Index

The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru. By Lisa Trever. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 366. 14 color illustrations. 255 halftones. 67 line illustrations. $69.95 paper.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Out of the Archive, into the Field: a Modern History of Art and Archaeology at Panãmarca

Introduction

Monumental Visions within Nineteenth-Century Narratives

Panãmarca in the Shadow of Tello's 1933–1934 Nepenã Expeditions

Art, Archaeology, and North Coast Indigenismo at Midcentury

The Discovery and Replication of an Iconic Painting and the True Story of its Destruction

Recuperation Episodes in Panãmarca's Archaeology Since the 1960s

The Art and Science of Archaeology in the Light of History: Framing the New Illustrated Corpus from Panãmarca

Part 2: Findings of the Panãmarca Documentary Field Project

Panãmarca Revisited

Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales

Documentation of Archaeological Contexts and mural paintings

Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales

Relative and Absolute Chronologies

Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, and Ricardo Toribio

Mural Iconography in Comparative Perspective

Concluding Summary of Field Findings

Appendix 1: Plotted Radiocarbon Dates from Panãmarca

Appendix 2: AMS Radiocarbon Data

Appendix 3: Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates

Appendix 4: Painting Sequence of the Temple of the Painted Pillars.

References

Contributors

Index

Prensa tradicional y liderazgos populares en Brasil. By Ariel Goldstein. Raleigh: A Contra Corriente, 2017. Pp. 399. $19.95 paper.

Prólogo

Introducción: Populismo y nacional-estatismo en la historia brasileña

Capítulo 1: Prensa política en Brasil

Capítulo 2: Prensa y política durante el segundo gobierno de Getúlio Vargas (1951–1954)

Capítulo 3: El segundo gobierno de Vargas en los editoriales: O Globo y O Estado de S. Paulo

Capítulo 4: Prensa y política durante el primer gobierno de Lula da Silva (2003–2006)

Capítulo 5: El primer gobierno de Lula en los editoriales: O Globo y O Estado de S. Paulo

Conclusiones finales

Referencias bibliográficas

The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Environment of the Marismas Nacionales: The Prehistoric Pacific Littoral of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico. Edited by Michael S. Foster. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. Pp. 600. 192 Illustrations. 30 maps. $70.00 cloth.

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction and project History

Stuart D. Scott

Chapter 2: Physical Setting

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 3: Archaeological Background

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 4: Chronology

Michael S. Foster with contributions by Stuart D. Scott

Chapter 5: Site Descriptions and Excavations

Michael S. Foster and Stuart D. Scott

Chapter 6: Ceramics

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 7: Artifacts

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 8: Diet and Subsistence

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 9: Mortuary Practices

Michael S. Foster

Chapter 10: Paleopathology and Cultural Modifications of Skeletal Remains

George W. Gill

Chapter 11: Skeletal Biology and Population Affinities

George W. Gill and Henry W. Case

Chapter 12: The Marismas Nacionales: A Historical View of the Conquest and Early Post Conquest Periods

Patricia Kay Scott

The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos: Change and Stability. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. 304. $95.00 cloth.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher

Chapter 1: Introducing San Marcos

Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher

Chapter 2: Situating San Marcos

Ann F. Ramenofsky, Kari L. Schleher, and Ariane O. Pinson

Chapter 3: San Marcos Pueblo and the Galisteo Basin from First Contact to the Pueblo Revolt

Richard Flint

Chapter 4: Temporal Reconstruction of San Marcos

Ann F. Ramenofsky and Jonathan E. van Hoose

Chapter 5: Cycles of Earth and Wood

Ariane O. Pinson

Chapter 6: Re-excavating Nelson's Rooms

Ariane O. Pinson and Shawn L. Penman

Chapter 7: Artifacts from San Marcos Pueblo

Dorothy L. Larson, Kari L. Schleher, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Jonathan E. Van Hoose, and Jennifer Boyd Dyer

Chapter 8: Learning and Production

Kari L. Schleher

Chapter 9: Lithic Technology at Pueblo San Marcos

Anne M. Compton

Chapter 10: Obsidian Sourcing, Technology, and Hydration Dating

Ann F. Ramenofsky, Anastasia Steffen, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Philippe D. Letourneau, and Adam Okun

Chapter 11: Metallurgy and Its Consequences in the New Mexico Colony

C. David Vaughan

Chapter 12: Reconstructing the Population History at San Marcos

Ann F. Ramenofsky

Chapter 13: Roomblocks as Tells

Ariane O. Pinson

Chapter 14: Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History

Scott G. Ortman

Chapter 15: On the Question of Protohistoric Pueblo Population Change

Ann F. Ramenofsky

Appendix One: Documented Mining-Related Interactions between Spaniards and Southwestern Indians of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

References Cited

Contributors

Index