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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , May 2015, pp. 455 - 462
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General

Anthropology and Sociology

  • Buendía, Felipe Cala, Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xii + 186, £59.50, hb.

  • Gilbert, Helen and Gleghorn, Charlotte (eds.), Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2014), pp. xiii + 273; £20.00, pb.

  • O'Connor, Erin E., Mothers Making Latin America: Gender, Households and Politics Since 1825 (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), pp. xii + 296, €32.40; £26.99, pb.

  • Peloso, Vincent C., Race and Ethnicity in Latin American History (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), pp. xxiii + 206, £85.00, hb.

  • Pereyra, Omar, Contemporary Middle Class in Latin America: A Study of San Felipe (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), pp. x + 147, £49.99, hb.

  • Telles, Edward, Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xvii + 297, $29.95, pb.

Cultural Studies

  • Aldama, Frederick Luis, The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 171, £15.99, pb.

  • Arenas, Reinaldo, Autoepitaph: Selected Poems (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014), pp. 363, $74.95, hb.

  • Bessa, Antonio Sergio (ed.), Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), pp. xii + 137, $35.00; £22.99, pb.

  • Carranza, Luis E. and Lara, Fernando Luiz, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015), pp. xvi + 406, £28.99, pb.

  • Carvalho, Edward J. (ed.), Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014), pp. xviii + 337, £57.95, hb.

  • Kirk, Stephanie and Rivett, Sarah (eds.), Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), pp. vi + 352, $49.95; £32.50, hb.

  • Marechal, Leopold, Adam Buenosayres (Montreal and Kingston, CDN: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014), pp. xxxi + 699, £19.99, pb.

  • Novo, Salvador, Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography with 19 Erotic Sonnets (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. vi + 210, $35.00; £23.99, hb.

  • Polar, Antonio Cornejo, Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. x + 212, £14.99, pb.

  • Reiter, Bernd and Oslender, Ulrich (eds.), Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2015), pp. xx + 208, $44.95, pb.

  • Riekenberg, Michael, Staatsferne Gewalt: Eine Geschichte Lateinamerikas, 1500–1930 (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2014), pp. 247, €24.90, pb.

  • de las Nieves Robledo, Doña María, El senador megicano ó carta de Lermin á Tlaucolde (Madrid, ES: Iberoamericana, 2014), pp. 199, €25.00, hb.

  • The Judy and Charles Tate: Collection of Latin American Art, the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. 175, £20.99, hb.

  • Venegas, José Luis, Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898–1992 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2014), pp. x + 241, $64.95, hb.

Economics

  • Hough, Jerry F. and Grier, Robin, The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-Industrial England, Spain and their Colonies (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. x + 448, $110.00; £70.00, hb.

History

  • Díaz Balsera, Viviana and May, Rachel A. (eds.), La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014), pp. xv + 312, $79.95, hb.

  • Breña, Roberto (ed.), Cádiz a debate: actualidad, context y legado (Mexico DF: El Colegio de Mexico, 2014), pp. 434, $28.00, pb.

  • Cervantes, Fernando and Redden, Andrew (eds.), Angels, Demons and the New World (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. xii + 318, $95.00; £60.00, hb.

  • Cruz, Joel M., The Histories of the Latin American Church: A Brief Introduction (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014), pp. 182, £12.99, pb.

  • Cruz, Joel M., The Histories of the Latin American Church: A Handbook (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014), pp. xix + 676, £23.99, pb.

  • Cruz, David González (ed.), Represión, tolerancia e integración en España y América: extranjeros, esclavos, indígenas y mestizos durante el siglo XVIII (Madrid, ES: Ediciones Doce Calles, 2014), pp. 350, €30.00, pb.

  • Cussen, Celia, Black Saint of the Americas: The Life and Afterlife of Martín de Porres (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xvi + 292, £60.00, hb.

  • McFarlane, Anthony, War and Independence in Spanish America (New York: Routledge, 2014), p. viii + 452, £35.99, pb.

  • Miller, Joseph C. (ed.), The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015), pp. xxxv + 532, $65.00; £44.95, hb.

  • Stein, Barbara H. and Stein, Stanley J., Crisis in an Atlantic Empire: Spain and New Spain, 1808–1810 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. ix + 795, £58.00, hb.

  • Young, Elliott, Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xvi + 360, $29.95, pb.

Latino/Latina Studies

  • Opie, Frederick Douglass, Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), pp. xv + 294, $30.00; £20.50, hb.

Politics

  • Alexander, Colin R., China and Taiwan in Central America: Engaging Foreign Publics in Diplomacy (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xiii + 247, £65.00, hb.

  • Baskin, Mark and Mezey, Michael L. (eds.), Distributive Politics in Developing Countries: Almost Pork (Lanham, MD, and London: Lexington Books, 2014), pp. xii + 265, £57.95, hb.

  • Chodor, Tom, Neoliberal Hegemony and the Pink Tide in Latin America: Breaking Up With TINA? (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. vi + 210, £58.00, hb.

  • Dargent, Eduardo, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America: The Experts Running Government (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. xi + 206, $90.00; £55.00, hb.

  • Gideon, Jasmine, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xv + 271, £62.50, hb.

  • Martens, Cheryl, Vivares, Ernesto and McChesney, Robert W. (eds.), The International Political Economy of Communication: Media and Power in South America (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xxi + 195, £58.00, hb.

  • Scarfi, Juan Pablo, El imperio de la ley: James Brown Scott y la construcción de un orden jurídico interamericano (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014), pp. 251, pb.

  • Stahler-Sholk, Richard, Vanden, Harry E. and Becker, Marc (eds.), Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below (Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. xiv + 397, £24.95, pb.

  • de la Torre, Carlos (ed.), The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), p. viii + 474, $30.00, pb.

  • Zepeda, Roberto and Rosen, Jonathan D. (eds.), Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas: Trends in the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), pp. xxi + 249, £59.95, hb.

ARGENTINA

  • Ferrero, Juan Pablo, Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: A Move to the Left (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xii + 264, £62.50, hb.

  • Graham-Jones, Jean, Evita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2014), pp. ix + 271, $37.50, pb.

  • Onuch, Olga, Mapping Mass Mobilization: Understanding Revolutionary Moments in Argentina and Ukraine (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xvii + 334, £73.00, hb.

  • Rein, Raanan, Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015), pp. xii + 226, £15.99, pb.

  • Sosa, Cecilia, Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship: The Performances of Blood (Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis, 2014), pp. xv + 190, £50.00, hb.

  • Undurraga, Tomás, Divergencias: trayectorias del neoliberalismo en Argentina y Chile (Santiago: Universidad Diego Portales, 2014), pp. 360, pb.

  • Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca, Curbing Clientelism in Argentina: Politics, Poverty and Social Policy (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xi + 195, $90.00; £55.00, hb.

  • Wright, Thomas C., Impunity, Human Rights and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xii + 192, $55.00, hb.

BOLIVIA

  • Powęska, Radosław, Indigenous Movements and Building the Plurinational State in Bolivia: Organisation and Identity in the Trajectory of the CSUTCB and CONAMAQ (Warsaw, PL: Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Warsaw, 2013), pp. 333, pb.

BRAZIL

  • Barcia, Manuel, West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. xi + 190, £65.00, hb.

  • Chilcote, Ronald H., Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xvi + 288, $99.00; £65.00, hb.

  • Dawson, Allan Charles, In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil (Toronto, CDN, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2014), pp. viii + 191, $27.95, pb.

  • Fausto, Boris and Fausto, Sergio, A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, 2014), pp. xv + 465, $29.99; £19.99, pb.

  • Ferrero, Juan Pablo, Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: A Move to the Left (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xii + 264, £62.50, hb.

  • Gordon, Richard A., Cinema, Slavery and Brazilian Nationalism (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015), pp. xi + 272, $55.00; £36.00, hb.

  • Ioris, Rafael R., Transforming Brazil: A History of National Development in the Postwar Era (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), pp. x + 266, $140.00, hb.

  • King, Lindsey, Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2014), pp. x + 157, £46.95, hb.

  • de Albuquerque, Durval Muniz Jr., The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. xv + 277, £16.99, pb.

  • Sheringham, Olivia, Transnational Religious Spaces: Faith and the Brazilian Migration Experience (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xiii + 226, £61.00, hb.

CHILE

  • Fuentes, Miguel (ed.), Rapa Nui y la Compañía Explotadora, 1895–1953 (Hanga Roa: Rapanui Press, 2013), pp. 405, $25.00, pb.

  • Huneeus, Carlos, La democracia semisoberana: Chile después de Pinochet (Santiago: Taurus, 2014), pp. 613, pb.

  • Murphy, Edward, For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), pp. ix + 343, $27.95, pb.

  • Ossa Santa Cruz, Juan Luis, Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808–1826 (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2014), pp. xv + 247, £75.00, hb.

  • Strodthoff, Irene, Chile and Australia: Contemporary Transpacific Connections from the South (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xvii + 213, £63.50, hb.

  • Undurraga, Tomás, Divergencias: trayectorias del neoliberalismo en Argentina y Chile (Santiago: Universidad Diego Portales, 2014), pp. 360, pb.

  • Vásquez, Rodrigo Henríquez, ‘En estado sólido’: políticas y politización en la construcción estatal Chile 1920–1950 (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, 2014), pp. 280, pb.

  • Wright, Thomas C., Impunity, Human Rights and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990–2005 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xii + 192, $55.00, hb.

COSTA RICA

  • Villarreal, Alejandra Boza, La frontera indígena de la Gran Talamanca: 1940–1930 (Cartago: Editoriales Universitarias Públicas Costarricenses, 2014), pp. 357, pb.

CUBA

  • Barcia, Manuel, West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. xi + 190, £65.00, hb.

  • Cosner, Charlotte, The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015), pp. x + 214, $35.00, hb.

  • López, Alfred J., José Martí: A Revolutionary Life (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xviii + 410, £25.99, hb.

  • Ritter, Archibald R. M. and Henken, Ted A., Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape (Boulder, CO, and London: First ForumPress, 2015), pp. xiv + 373, £62.95, hb.

ECUADOR

  • Bryant, Sherwin K., Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xix + 240, $35.00, hb.

  • Syring, David, With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. ix + 161, $55.00; £36.00, hb.

GUATEMALA

  • Jonas, Susanne and Rodríguez, Nestor, Guatemala – U. S. Migration: Transforming Regions (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015), pp. xiii + 276, £15.99, pb.

HAITI

  • Smith, Matthew J., Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xiv + 409, $32.95, pb.

MEXICO

  • Castañeda, Luis M., Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda and the 1968 Olympics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), pp. xxvii + 301, $35.00, pb.

  • Cook, Scott, Land, Livelihood and Civility in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca Valley Communities in History (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xviii + 383, £50.00, hb.

  • Demers, Maurice, Connected Struggles: Catholics, Nationalists and Transnational Relations between Mexico and Quebec, 1917–1945 (Montreal and Kingston, CDN: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014), pp. xii + 290, £67.00, hb.

  • Gaytán, Marie Sarita, ¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014), pp. vii + 212, £14.99, pb.

  • Hendrickson, Brett, Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American ‘Curanderismo’ (New York and London: New York University Press, 2014), pp. xvii + 233, $24.00, pb.

  • Kastner, Carolyn (ed.), Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xii + 183, £36.00, hb.

  • Martí i Puig, Salvador, Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz, Ma Fernanda Somuano Ventura and Claire Wright (eds.), Democracy in Mexico: Attitudes and Perceptions of Citizens at National and Local Level (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2014), pp. xiv + 284, £25.00, pb.

  • Morrill, Penny C., The Casa del Deán: New World Imagery in a Sixteenth Century Mexican Mural Cycle (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 297, $75.00, hb.

  • Noriega, Guillermo Núñez, Just Between Us: An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2014), pp. 218, $24.95, pb.

  • O'Neil, Shannon K., Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xv + 239, $21.95, pb.

  • Robles, Jorge García, At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico (Minneapolis, MN, and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), pp. xi + 130, $17.95, pb.

  • Seijas, Tatiana, Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. xiv + 282, $99.00; £65.00, hb.

  • Vaughan, Mary Kay, Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2015), pp. xiii + 289, £16.99, pb.

  • Wright-Rios, Edward, Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 390, $34.95, pb.

PARAGUAY

  • Bessire, Lucas, Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 310, $27.50, pb.

PERU

  • Drinot, Paulo (ed.), Peru in Theory (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. viii + 259, £62.50, hb.

  • López, Raúl Necochea, A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), pp. xii + 234, $32.95, pb.

  • Méndez, Cecilia, La república plebeya: Huanta y la formación del Estado peruano, 1820–1850 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2014), pp. 412, $21.50, pb.

  • Saona, Margarita, Memory Matters in Transitional Peru (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xv + 159, £60.00, hb.