The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes that will be of interest to our readership. To introduce these works, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries. The five volumes selected for this issue examine the Great Depression in Latin America, immigration and national identities, Latin American foreign policies, Latin American politics and development, and civic life and culture in Cuba's First Republic.
The Great Depression in Latin America. Edited by Paulo Drinot and AlanKnight. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 362. $26.95 paper, $94.95 cloth.
Introduction
Paulo Drinot
The Impact of the Depression on Argentine Society
Roy Hora
Chilean Workers and the Great Depression, 1930–1938
Angela Vergara
Change with Continuity: Brazil from 1930 to 1945
Joel Wolfe
The Great Depression in Peru
Paulo Drinot and Carlos Contreras
Export Protectionism and the Great Depression: Multinational Corporations, Domestic Elite, and Export Policies in Colombia
Marcelo Bucheli and Luis Felipe Sáenz
Political Transition in an Age of Extremes: Venezuela in the 1930s
Doug Yarrington
Indigenista Dictators and the Problematic Origins of Democracy in Central America
Jeffrey L. Gould
The Character and Consequences of the Great Depression in Mexico
Alan Knight
Cuba: Depression, Imperialism, and Revolution, 1920–1940
Gillian McGillivray
The Great Depression in Latin America: An Overview
Alan Knight
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Immigration and National Identities in Latin America. Edited by Nicola Footeand Michael Goebel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. x,356. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth.
Introduction
Reconceptualizing Diasporas and National Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850–1950
Michael Goebel
I. Spaces of Migration
Migrants, Nations, and Empires in Transition: Native Claims in the Greater Caribbean, 1850s–1930s
Lara Putnam
The Limits of the Cosmic Race: Immigrant and Nation in Mexico, 1850–1950
Jürgen Buchenau
Immigration, Identity, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1850–1950
Jeane DeLaney
Nation and Migration: German-Speaking and Japanese Immigrants in Brazil, 1850–1945
Frederik Schulze
II. Migrating Peoples
Motherlands of Choice: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Identities among Jewish Latin Americans
Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein
The Reconstruction of National Identity: German Minorities in Latin America during the First World War
Stefan Rinke
In Search of Legitimacy: Chinese Immigrants and Latin American Nation Building
Kathleen López
British Caribbean Migration and the Racialization of Latin American Nationalisms
Nicola Foote
Italian Fascism and Diasporic Nationalisms in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
Michael Goebel
“The Summit of Civilization”: Nationalism among the Arabic-Speaking Colonies in Latin America
Steven Hyland Jr.
Conclusion
Writing Latin American Nations from Their Borders: Bringing Nationalism and Immigration Histories into Dialogue
Nicola Foote
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Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism. Edited byGian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2013. $90.00 cloth; $32.00 paper.
Introduction, Ideology and Pragmatism in Latin American Foreign Policy
Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert
Latin American Foreign Policies Between Ideology and Pragmatism: A Framework for Analysis
Gian Luca Gardini
Pragmatism, Ideology, and Tradition in Chilean Foreign Policy since 1990
Joaquín Fermandois
Brazilian Foreign Policy: Casual Beliefs in Formulation and Pragmatism in Practice
Miriam Gomes Saraiva
Dancing Between Superpowers: Ideology, Pragmatism, and Drift in Paraguayan Foreign Policy,
Peter Lambert
Argentine Foreign Policy under the Kirchners: Ideological, Pragmatic, or Simply Peronist?
Andrés Malamud
From Obscurity to Center Stage: The Architectonics of Bolivia's Foreign Policy
Larry Birns and Alex Sanchez
Ideology and Pragmatism in the Foreign Policy of Peru
Ronald Bruce St. John
The Continuing Pull of the Polar Star: Colombian Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era,
Stephen J. Randall
Venezuelan Foreign Policy under Chávez, 1999–2010: The Pragmatic Success of Revolutionary Ideology? Diana Raby
Defying Expectations: The External Profile and Activism of the Cuban Revolution
Antoni Kapcia
Nicaragua's Pragmatic Ideologues
David Close
Mexico's Foreign Policy under the Partido Acción National: Promoting Democracy, Human Rights, and Interests
Ana Covarrubias
Unity and Diversity in Latin American Visions of Regional Integration
Gian Luca Gardini
Conclusions
Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert
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Latin American Politics and Development, 8th ed. Edited by Howard J. Wiardaand Harvey F. Kline. Boulder: Westview Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 509.Illustrations. List of Acronyms. Preface. Index. $53.00 paper
I. Introduction: The Latin American Tradition and Process of Development
Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline
II. The Political Systems of South America
Argentina in the Twenty-First Century
Linda Chen
Brazil: A Unique Country
Iêda Siqueira Wiarda
Chile: Alternative Approaches to Development
Paul E. Sigmund
Colombia: Unfading Glory and Furrows of Pain
Vanessa Joan Gray
Peru in the Twenty-First Century: Confronting the Past, Charting the Future
Julio F. Carrión and David Scott Palmer
The Legacy of Charisma: Venezuelan Politics after Hugo Chávez
David Myers
Uruguay: Balancing Growth and Democracy
Ronald H. McDonald and Martin Weinstein
Paraguay: The Problems and Politics of Democratic Institutionalization
Paul C. Sondrol
Bolivia: From Neoliberal Democracy to Multiethnic, Plebiscitarian Politics
Fabrice Lehoucq
Ecuador: From Crisis to Left Turn
Jennifer N. Collins
III. The Political Systems of Central and Middle America and the Caribbean
Mexico: Democratization, Development, and Internal War
Judith A. Gentleman
Cuba: Revolution in the Balance?
Juan M. del Águila and Frank O. Mora
Costa Rica
Mitchell A. Seligson
Nicaragua: The Politics of Frustration
Richard L. Millett
El Salvador: Civil War to Uncivil Peace
Christine J. Wade
Guatemala: Progress and Peril in an Age of Globalization
Dwight Wilson
Honduras: Fragile Democracy
J. Mark Ruhl
Panama: The Challenge of Governance in Boom Times
Steve C. Ropp
The Dominican Republic: A Winding Road to Democracy and Development
Esther Skelley Jordan
Haiti: Conflict and the Search for Democratic Governance
George A. Fauriol
IV. Conclusion: Latin America and the Future
Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline
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State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic. Edited bySteven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos.Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 365. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $94.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.
Introduction: Revisiting Cuba's First Republic
Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos
A Sunken Ship, a Bronze Eagle, and the Politics of Memory: The “Social Life” of the USS Maine in Cuba (1898–1961)
Marial Iglesias Utset
Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1875–1933
Steven Palmer
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886–1909
Rebecca J. Scott
Slaughterhouses and Milk Consumption in the “Sick Republic”: Socio-Environmental Change and Sanitary Technology in Havana, 1890–1925
Reinaldo Funes Monzote
Attributes for the Capital of an Austere Republic
José Antonio Piqueras
Transcending Borders: ¡Tierra! and the Expansion of Anarchism in Cuba after Independence
Amparo Sánchez Cobos
Steeds, Cocks, and Guayaberas: The Social Impact of Agrarian Reorganization in the Republic
Imilcy Balboa Navarro
District 25: Rotary Clubs and Regional Civic Power in Cuba, 1916–1940
Maikel Fariñas Borrego
El naciente público oyente: Toward a Genealogy of the Audience in Early Republican Cuba
Alejandra Bronfman
New Knowledge for New Times: The Sociedad del Folklore Cubano during the “Critical Decade” (1923–1930)
Ricardo Quiza Moreno
Nation, State, and the Making of the Cuban Working Class, 1920–1940
Robert Whitney
