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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , May 2008, pp. 391 - 397
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Anthropology

Breton, Alain (ed.), Rabinal Achi: A Fifteenth–Century Maya Dynastic Drama (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2007), pp. xviii+396, $75.00, $34.95, pb.Rice, Prudence M., Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory and the Materialization of Time (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007), pp. xviii+268, $65.00, $27.95, pb.Whitten, Norman E. Jr. and Whitten, Dorothea Scott, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia (Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+304, £13.99, pb.

Archaeology

Geurds, Alexander, Grounding the Past: The Praxis of Participatory Archaeology in Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico (Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2007), pp. xiv+367, €59.00, pb.Scarborough, Vernon L. and Clark, John E. (eds.), The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), pp. x+228, $45.00, hb.

Cultural Studies

Arias, Arturo, Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (Minneapolis, MN, and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pp. xxiii+299, $22.50, pb.Baim, Jo, Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007), pp. 214, $50.00, $19.95, pb.Mendieta, Eduardo, Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms and Critical Theory (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007), pp. viii+226, $70.00, hb.Shaw, Deborah (ed.), Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), pp. ix+201, £14.99, pb.Williams, Raymond Leslie, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 392, £38.00, hb.Williamson, Rodney, The Writing in the Stars: A Jungian Reading of the Poetry of Octavio Paz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 172, £32.00, hb.

Economics

Haber, Stephen, North, Douglass C. and Weingast, Harry R. (eds.), Political Institutions and Financial Development (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. ix+304, $70.00, $29.95, pb.Jank, Marcos Sawaya and Davi Silber, Simão (eds.), Políticas comerciais comparadas: Desempenho e modelos organizacionais; Políticas comerciales comparadas: Modelos organizacionales y su desempeño; Comparative Trade Policies: Organizational Models and Performance: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United States, Mexico and the European Union (São Paulo: Editora Singular, 2007), pp. 448, pb.

General

Brinks, Daniel M., The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xi+289, £50.00, hb.Cleary, Edward, Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007), pp. xiii+155, £16.50, pb.Gutiérrez Chong, Natividad (ed.), Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. xvi+235, £55.00, hb.Reid, Michael, Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (London: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. xv+384, £19.99, hb.

History

Bergad, Laird W., The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. xiv+314, £45.00, £15.99, pb; $80.00, $22.99, pb.Chasteen, John Charles, Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xx+218, $28.00; £14.20, pb.Antonio Serrano, Manuel Chrust y José (eds.), Debates sobre las independencias iberoamericanas (Madrid: AHILA, Iberoamericana, Vervuert, 2007), pp. 340, pb.Delpar, Helen, Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008), pp. xiii+241, $25.60, pb.Dym, Jordana and Belaubre, Christophe (eds.), Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759–1821 (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2007), pp. ix+310, $60.00, hb.Earle, Rebecca, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 367, £51.00, £12.99, pb.Holloway, Thomas H. (ed.), A Companion to Latin American History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp. x+530, £95.00; $199.95, hb.Joseph, Gilbert M. and Spenser, Daniela (eds.), In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. ix+439, £64.00, £15.99, pb.Bacci, Massimo Livi, Conquest: The Destruction of the American Indios (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007), pp. xi+317, £18.99, pb.MacLeod, Murdo J., Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720 (revised edition, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007), pp. lx+554, $65.00, $29.95, pb.Matthew, Laura E. and Oudijk, Michel R. (eds.), Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), pp. xiv+349, $45.00, hb.Paquette, Gabriel B., Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759–1808 (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. xi+244, £50.00, hb.Vale, Brian, Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007), pp. ix+238, £25.00, hb.Hervás, Miguel Villalba, Republicanismo, regeneracionismo y masonería (Santa Cruz, Tenerife and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 676, pb.

International Relations

Corse, Theron, Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2007), pp. xi+194, $59.95, hb.Smith, Peter H., Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.2007), pp. ix+438, $34.95, pb.

Politics

Sáez, Manuel Alcántara (ed.), Politicians and Politics in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2008), pp. xiv+323, £44.50, hb.Domínguez, Jorge I. and Jones, Anthony (eds.), The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), pp. viii+253, £33.50, hb.Luengo, Ana (ed.), Entre la violencia y la reparación: Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre procesos de democratización en Iberoamérica (Berlin: Edition Tranvía, Verlag Walter Frey, 2008), pp. 156, €16.00, pb.Mace, Gordon, Thérien, Jean-Philippe and Haslam, Paul (eds.), Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. vii+317, £40.95, hb.Payne, Leigh A., Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xvi+374, £55.00, £13.99, pb.

ARGENTINA

Giunta, Andrea, Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xv+406, £64.00, £14.99, pb.Sarlo, Beatriz, The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. xiii+185, $60.00, hb.

BOLIVIA

Hylton, Forrest and Thomson, Sinclair, Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (London and New York: Verso, 2008), pp. xxiv+177, £12.99, pb.Lazar, Sian, El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xiii+328, £51.00, £12.99, pb.

BRAZIL

Baer, Werner, The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 6th edition, 2008), pp. xvii+443, £20.50, pb.Holston, James, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. xvii+396, £19.95, hb.Mische, Ann, Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. xxi+432, £23.95; $39.50, hb.Murphy, Roseanne, Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007), pp. xiii+158, pb.Sá, Lúcia, Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xi+175, £22.99, pb.Selka, Stephen, Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007), pp. x+175, $59.95, hb.Wampler, Brian, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), pp. xvi+312, $55.00, hb.

CARIBBEAN

Candelario, Ginetta E. B., Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiii+340, £55.00, £13.99, pb.Cheesman, Clive (ed.), The Armorial of Haiti: Symbols of Nobility in the Reign of Henry Christophe (London: The College of Arms, 2007), pp. 215, £45.00, hb.Fatton, Robert Jr., The Roots of Haitian Despotism (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. xi+269, £37.95, hb.Griffith, David, American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2006), pp. xv+234, $55.00, hb.Jiménez, Iván Molina, Anticomunismo reformista: Competencia electoral y cuestión social en Costa Rica (1931–1948) (San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 2007), pp. 222, pb.

CHILE

Canque, Manuel Fernández, Arica 1868: Un tsunami y un terremoto (Arica, Chile: Universidad de Tarapacá Arica, 2007), pp. 332, pb.Gustafson, Kristian, Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964–1974 (Washington, D.C: Potomac Books, 2007), pp. xiv+317, $29.95, hb.Huneeus, Carlos, The Pinochet Regime (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. xxiv+559, £42.95, hb.

CUBA

Muñoz, Carmen Almodóvar, Presencia de Cuba en la historiografía española actual (Madrid: Ediciones Doce Calles, 2008), pp. 225, pb.Brenner, Philip, Jiménez, Marguerite Rose, Kirk, John M. and LeoGrande, William M. (eds.), Reinventing the Revolution: A Contemporary Cuba Reader (Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), pp. xvi+413, £19.99, pb.Cano Castro, Olivia América, Canarios en la música cubana (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, Letras de Cuba series, 2007), pp. 155, pb.Clune, John J. Jr., Cuban Converts in the Age of Enlightened Reform, 1761–1807 (Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. 131, $59.95, hb.Gay-Sylvestre, Dominique (ed.), La revolución cubana: Miradas cruzadas (Santa Cruz, Tenerife and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 630, pb.Paz, Miguel David Hernández, Andrés A. Orihuela Moreno y ‘El Sol de Jesús del Monte’: La novella histórica antiesclavista de un canario en la Cuba del siglo XIX. Antología (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, Letras de Cuba series, 2007), pp. 360, pb.Pérez, Antonio Hernández, La poesía no se detiene: Antología (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, Letras de Cuba series, 2007), pp. 252, pb.Orihuela Moreno, Andrés A., El Sol de Jesús del Monte: Novela de costumbres cubanos (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, Letras de Cuba series, 2007), pp. 370, pb.Sánchez, Manuel de Paz, Indianos: Breve antología del viajero forzoso (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 117, pb.Sánchez, Manuel de Paz and Carmona-Calero, Emilia María, La mesa que nos une: Historias de la alimentación (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 147, pb.Piqueras Arenas, José A., La Habana colonial (Visiones y mediciones, 1800–1877) (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 123, pb.Poumier, María (ed.), La cuestión tabú: El pensamiento negro cubano de 1840 a 1959 (Santa Cruz, Tenerife and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, 2007), pp. 413, pb.Román, Reinaldo L., Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), pp. xii+273, $65.00, $24.95, pb.Molina, Juan Carlos Rosario, La alimentación: El dominio invisible de las mujeres canarias en Cuba (Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria: Ediciones Idea, Letras de Cuba series, 2007), pp. 347, pb.

EL SALVADOR

Coutin, Susan Bibler, Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), pp. xvi+263, $59.95, $19.95, pb; £30.50, £9.95, pb.

MEXICO

Brienen, Rebecca P. and Jackson, Margaret A. (eds.), Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado press, 2008), pp. xii+231, $55.00, hb.Ficker, Sandra Kuntz, El comercio exterior de México en la era del capitalismo liberal, 1870–1929 (México: El Colegio de México, 2007), pp. 531, pb.Fowler, Will, Santa Anna of Mexico (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+501, £25.00, hb.Garza, James Alex, The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. x+220, £25.00, hb.Heller, Karle Bartolomeus (ed.), Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2007), pp. xix+274, £32.50, hb.Sá, Lúcia, Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xi+175, £22.99, pb.Speed, Shannon, Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. xvii+244, $55.00, $21.95, pb.

NICARAGUA

Wolfe, Justin, The Everyday Nation-State: Community & Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. xi+272, £22.00, hb.

PERU

Durston, Alex, Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550–1650 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), pp. xiii+395, $42.00, pb.Marks, Patricia H., Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants and the Military in Late Colonial Peru (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007), pp. x+403, $65.00, hb.

PUERTO RICO

Román, Reinaldo L., Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), pp. xii+273, $65.00, $24.95, pb.

VENEZUELA

Freire, Germán and Tillett, Aimé (eds.), Salud indígena en Venezuela, Vols 1 & 2 (Caracas: Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud; Centro Simón Bolívar, 2007), pp. 380+396, pb.

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Breton, Alain (ed.), Rabinal Achi: A Fifteenth–Century Maya Dynastic Drama (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2007), pp. xviii+396, $75.00, $34.95, pb.Google Scholar
Rice, Prudence M., Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory and the Materialization of Time (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007), pp. xviii+268, $65.00, $27.95, pb.Google Scholar
Whitten, Norman E. Jr. and Whitten, Dorothea Scott, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia (Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+304, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
Geurds, Alexander, Grounding the Past: The Praxis of Participatory Archaeology in Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico (Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2007), pp. xiv+367, €59.00, pb.Google Scholar
Scarborough, Vernon L. and Clark, John E. (eds.), The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007), pp. x+228, $45.00, hb.Google Scholar
Arias, Arturo, Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (Minneapolis, MN, and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pp. xxiii+299, $22.50, pb.Google Scholar
Baim, Jo, Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007), pp. 214, $50.00, $19.95, pb.Google Scholar
Mendieta, Eduardo, Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms and Critical Theory (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007), pp. viii+226, $70.00, hb.Google Scholar
Shaw, Deborah (ed.), Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), pp. ix+201, £14.99, pb.Google Scholar
Williams, Raymond Leslie, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 392, £38.00, hb.Google Scholar
Williamson, Rodney, The Writing in the Stars: A Jungian Reading of the Poetry of Octavio Paz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 172, £32.00, hb.Google Scholar
Haber, Stephen, North, Douglass C. and Weingast, Harry R. (eds.), Political Institutions and Financial Development (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. ix+304, $70.00, $29.95, pb.Google Scholar
Jank, Marcos Sawaya and Davi Silber, Simão (eds.), Políticas comerciais comparadas: Desempenho e modelos organizacionais; Políticas comerciales comparadas: Modelos organizacionales y su desempeño; Comparative Trade Policies: Organizational Models and Performance: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United States, Mexico and the European Union (São Paulo: Editora Singular, 2007), pp. 448, pb.Google Scholar
Brinks, Daniel M., The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xi+289, £50.00, hb.Google Scholar
Cleary, Edward, Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007), pp. xiii+155, £16.50, pb.Google Scholar
Gutiérrez Chong, Natividad (ed.), Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. xvi+235, £55.00, hb.Google Scholar
Reid, Michael, Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (London: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. xv+384, £19.99, hb.Google Scholar
Bergad, Laird W., The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. xiv+314, £45.00, £15.99, pb; $80.00, $22.99, pb.Google Scholar
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Earle, Rebecca, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 367, £51.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
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Paquette, Gabriel B., Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759–1808 (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. xi+244, £50.00, hb.Google Scholar
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Corse, Theron, Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2007), pp. xi+194, $59.95, hb.Google Scholar
Smith, Peter H., Talons of the Eagle: Latin America, the United States and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. 2007), pp. ix+438, $34.95, pb.Google Scholar
Sáez, Manuel Alcántara (ed.), Politicians and Politics in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2008), pp. xiv+323, £44.50, hb.Google Scholar
Domínguez, Jorge I. and Jones, Anthony (eds.), The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), pp. viii+253, £33.50, hb.Google Scholar
Luengo, Ana (ed.), Entre la violencia y la reparación: Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre procesos de democratización en Iberoamérica (Berlin: Edition Tranvía, Verlag Walter Frey, 2008), pp. 156, €16.00, pb.Google Scholar
Mace, Gordon, Thérien, Jean-Philippe and Haslam, Paul (eds.), Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. vii+317, £40.95, hb.Google Scholar
Payne, Leigh A., Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xvi+374, £55.00, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
Giunta, Andrea, Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xv+406, £64.00, £14.99, pb.Google Scholar
Sarlo, Beatriz, The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. xiii+185, $60.00, hb.Google Scholar
Hylton, Forrest and Thomson, Sinclair, Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (London and New York: Verso, 2008), pp. xxiv+177, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Lazar, Sian, El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xiii+328, £51.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
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Wampler, Brian, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), pp. xvi+312, $55.00, hb.Google Scholar
Candelario, Ginetta E. B., Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiii+340, £55.00, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
Cheesman, Clive (ed.), The Armorial of Haiti: Symbols of Nobility in the Reign of Henry Christophe (London: The College of Arms, 2007), pp. 215, £45.00, hb.Google Scholar
Fatton, Robert Jr., The Roots of Haitian Despotism (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), pp. xi+269, £37.95, hb.Google Scholar
Griffith, David, American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2006), pp. xv+234, $55.00, hb.Google Scholar
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