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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , November 2010, pp. 909 - 914
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

Anthropology and Sociology

Karen Dubinsky, Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas (New York: New York University Press, 2010), pp. xii+199, $65.00, $20.00 pb.

Claudio Iván Remeseira (ed.), Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), pp. xxiv+547, $89.50, $29.95 pb; £62.00, £20.00 pb.

Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xiv+566, £73.00, £19.99 pb.

Aparecida Vilaça, Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xv+370, £72.00, £17.99 pb.

Peter Wade, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (2nd edition, London and New York: Pluto Press, 2010), pp. viii+215, £16.00, pb.

Gordana Yovanovich and Amy Huras (eds.), Latin American Identities after 1980 (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2010), pp. xxviii+316, £25.99, pb.

Archaeology

Julia A. Hendon, Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xvi+292, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

Cultural Studies

Mabel Moraña and Bret Gustafson (eds.), Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America (Madrid: Iberoamericana, and Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2010), pp. 388, pb.

Carmen Nanko-Fernández, Theologizing en Espanglish (Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2010), pp. xx+188, $25.00, pb.

Philip Swanson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel García Márquez (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xii+206, £45.00, £17.99 pb; $75.00, $28.99 pb.

Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup (eds.), Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xvi+671, £83.00, £20.99 pb.

Economics and Business

Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino and James R. Lincoln, The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xxviii+797, £85.00 hb.

Luis F. López-Calva and Nora Lustig (eds.), Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress (New York: United Nations Development Programme, and Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2010), pp. ix+253, £23.99, pb.

Luigi Manzetti, Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets: Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective (University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp. xi+295, $65.00, hb.

Lester M. Salamon, Rethinking Corporate Social Engagement: Lessons from Latin America (Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2010), pp. xii+159, £20.95, pb.

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan (eds.), Southern Engines of Global Growth (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xxv+294, $90.00, hb.

History

Hal Brands, Latin America's Cold War (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 385, $29.95; £22.95, hb.

José Carlos Chiaramonte, Fundamentos intelectuales y políticos de las independencias: notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoamérica (Buenos Aires: Editorial Teseo, 2010), pp. 198, pb.

Yolanda Eraso (comp.), Mujeres y asistencia social en Latinoamérica, siglos XIX y XX: Argentina, Colombia, México, Perú y Uruguay (Córdoba, Argentina: Alción Editora, 2009), pp. 279, pb.

Roberto Gargarella, The Legal Foundations of Inequality: Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776–1860 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. ix+273, £55.00; $85.00, hb.

Robert H. Holden and Eric Zolov (eds.), Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History (2nd edition, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxiii+414, $39.95, pb.

Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade (2nd edition, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xx+242, £55.00, £16.99 pb; $90.00, $24.99 pb.

Paulo Drinot (ed.), Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. 306, £66.00, £16.99 pb.

Politics

Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg (eds.), Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change (Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010), pp. ix+287, £24.50, pb.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano (eds.), Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp.ix+382, £69.00, £16.99 pb.

James W. McGuire, Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xviii+406, £55.00, £17.99 pb; $95.00, $29.95 pb.

Stephen D. Morris and Charles H. Blake (eds.), Corruption and Politics in Latin America: National and Regional Dynamics (Boulder CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 2010), pp. viii+286, £24.50, pb.

Guillermo O'Donnell, Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 264, £50.00, hb.

Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline (eds.), Latin American Politics and Development (7th edition, Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2010), pp. xiii+642, $49.00, pb.

ARGENTINA

Sandra McGee Deutsch, Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation: A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955 (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xii+377, £70.00, £17.99 pb.

Roy Hora, Historia económica de la Argentina en el siglo XIX (Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2010), pp. 269, pb.

Matthew B. Karush and Oscar Chamosa (eds.), The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. viii+309, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

Ana Margheritis, Argentina's Foreign Policy: Domestic Politics and Democracy Promotion in the Americas (Boulder CO: First Forum Press, 2010), pp. xii+143, £51.95, hb.

Regina A. Root, Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina (Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), pp. xxx+221, $25.00, pb.

María Inés Tato and Martín O. Castro (comps.), Del Centenario al peronismo: dimensiones de la vida política argentina (Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi, 2010), pp. viii+248, pb.

BOLIVIA

Robert Albro, Roosters at Midnight: Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics (Santa Fe NM: SAR [School of Advanced Research] Press, 2009), pp. xii+251, $29.95, pb.

Robert L. Smale, ‘I Sweat the Flavor of Tin’: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), pp. x+242, $60.00, $25.95 pb.

BRAZIL

Stefania Capone, Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xiv+316, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

Jerry Dávila, Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980 (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xi+312, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xvi+300, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

James N. Green, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xiv+450, $94.95, $26.95 pb.

Andrew J. Kirkendall, Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), pp. xvi+246, $34.95, hb.

Luiz Bernardo Pericás, Os cangaceiros: ensaio de interpretação histórica (São Paulo: Boitempo Editorial, 2010), pp. 316, pb.

Lina Penna Sattamini, A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xvii+188, £55.00, £13.99 pb.

Kurt E. von Mettenheim, Federal Banking in Brazil (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010), pp. xii+228, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

CHILE

Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks (eds.), The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville FL: University Press of Florida, 2010), pp. 240, $69.95, hb.

Stephan Ruderer, Das Erbe Pinochets: Vergangenheitspolitik und Demokratisierung in Chile, 1990–2006 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), pp. 402,€34.90, pb.

COLOMBIA

Josefina Echavarría, In/Security in Colombia: Writing Political Identities in the Democratic Security Policy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. xx+258, £60.00, hb.

COSTA RICA

Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, Cuenta Braña: un mecánico comunista en la Europa nazi (Heredia, Costa Rica: EUNA [Editorial Universidad Nacional], 2010), pp. 99, pb.

CUBA

Keith Bolender, Voices from the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism against Cuba (London and New York: Pluto Press, 2010), pp. xvi+240, £11.50, pb.

ECUADOR

Maximilian Viatori, One State, Many Nations: Indigenous Rights Struggles in Ecuador (Santa Fe NM: SAR [School of Advanced Research] Press, 2009), pp. x+155, $29.95, pb.

HAITI

Erica Caple James, Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti (Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2010), pp. xxiv+357, £16.95, pb.

HONDURAS

Glenn A. Chambers, Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890–1940 (Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), pp. xii+202, $35.00, hb.

MEXICO

Roberto Breña (ed.), En el umbral de las revoluciones hispánicas: el bienio, 1808–1810 (Mexico: Colegio de México, and Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2010), pp. 402, pb.

James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise, Mexico's Economic Dilemma: The Developmental Failure of Neoliberalism (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), pp. xv+207, $70.00, hb.

Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xvi+300, £68.00, £16.99 pb.

Daniela de Piramo, Political Leadership in Zapatista Mexico: Marcos, Celebrity, and Charismatic Authority (Boulder CO: First Forum Press, 2010), pp. xviii+271, $60.95, hb.

Mónica Díaz, Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2010), pp. xii+229, $55.00, hb.

Paul K. Eiss, In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. xv+337, £70.00, £17.99 pb.

Federico Gamboa, Santa: A Novel of Mexico City, trans. and ed. John Charles Chasteen (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), pp. xiii+238, $22.95, pb.

Natasha Iskander, Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), pp. xiv+367, £45.95, £19.95 pb.

Brian Larkin, The Very Nature of God: Baroque Catholicism and Religious Reform in Bourbon Mexico City (Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2010), pp. xiii+312, $27.95, pb.

Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, Folkloric Poverty: Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Mexico (University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp. xiii+209, $60.00, hb.

José Rebasa, Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), pp. x+358, $28.50, pb.

Richard Rhoda and Tony Burton, Geo-Mexico: The Geography and Dynamics of Modern Mexico (Ladysmith BC: Sombrero Books, 2010), pp. xiv+274, $39.95, pb.

Susan Schroeder (ed.), The Conquest All Over Again: Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010), pp. xiii+273, £65.00, hb.

Susan Schroeder, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, and David E. Tavárez (ed. and trans.), Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara's ‘La conquista de México’ (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. xvi+510, $60.00, hb.

PERU

Jelke Boesten, Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru, 1990–2000 (University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp. xviii+174, $60.00, hb.

Ralph Bolton, Tom Greaves and Florencia Zapata (eds.), 50 años de antropología aplicada en el Perú: Vicos y otras experiencias (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2010), pp. 485, pb.

Alcira Dueñas, Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City’: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru (Boulder CO: University Press of Colorado, 2010), pp. xii+269, $65.00, hb.

Christina Ewig, Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru (University Park PA: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp. xiv+255, $67.95, hb.

Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980 (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. xii+254, $60.00, hb.

Victor Peralta Ruiz, La independencia y la cultura política peruana, 1808–1821 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Fundación M. J. Bustamante de la Fuente, 2010), pp. 385, pb.

Thomas Ward, Buscando la nación peruana (Baltimore MD: Loyola University Maryland, and Lima: Editorial Horizonte and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2009), pp. 239, pb.

PUERTO RICO

Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History (Tuscaloosa AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010), pp. xiii+267, $49.95, $29.95 pb.

Lorrin Thomas, Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City (Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. x+354, $40.00, hb.