Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-tnzcf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-14T20:13:35.081Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Books Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2013

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Information

Type
Books Received
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , February 2013, pp. 199 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

Anthropology and Sociology

Charis E. Kubrin, Marjorie S. Zatz and Ramiro Martínez Jr. (eds.), Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics and Injustice (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. viii+263, $75.00, $24.00 pb.

Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith, Institutions Count: Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development (Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2012), pp. xiv+206, £19.95, pb.

Dennis Rodgers, Jo Beall and Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xix+270, £65.00, hb.

Archaeology

Deborah L. Nichols and Christopher A. Pool (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xv+979, $175.00; £110.00, hb.

Cultural Studies

José E. Limón, Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. x+235, $55.00, hb.

Economics

Christopher Wylde, Latin America after Neoliberalism: Developmental Regimes in Post-Crisis States (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xiii + 250, £57.50, hb.

Environment

Stephanie C. Kane, Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2012), pp. xvii+228, $27.95, pb.

Alex Latta and Hannah Wittman (eds.), Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects and Struggles (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), pp. vii+254, $70.00; £43.00, hb.

General

Robert H. Holden and Rina Villars, Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present (Chichester and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. ix+353, £19.99, pb.

History

José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Ausentes del universo: reflexiones sobre el pensamiento político hispanoamericano en la era de la construcción nacional, 1821–1850 (Mexico City: CIDE/Fondo de Cultura Económica/Caminos de la Libertad, 2012), pp. 343, pb.

Lawrence A. Clayton, Bartolomé de las Casas: A Biography (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. viii+498, £50.00; $75.00, hb.

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, The British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xxiii+380, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz and Margarita R. Ochoa (eds.), City Indians in Spain's American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1530–1810 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), pp. xv+244, £55.00, hb.

International Relations

Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (eds.), Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), pp. 478, £29.00, pb.

Politics

Cynthia J. Arnson (ed.), In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Centre, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xci+430, £22.50, €28.00, pb.

Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. ix+238, $26.95, pb.

Evelyne Huber and John O. Stevens, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. xx+342, $27.50, pb.

Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (eds.), New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. xxiv + 409, £65.00, hb.

ARGENTINA

Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein (eds.), The New Jewish Argentina: Facets of Jewish Experiences in the Southern Cone (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. xiv + 399, €146.00; $203.00, hb.

Alex Levine and Adriana Novoa, ¡Darwinistas! The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth Century Argentina (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. xvii + 279, €99.00; $136.00, hb.

Jorge A. Nallim, Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. xi+274, $28.95, pb.

Marina A. Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (London and New York: Zed Books, 2012), pp. xv+256, £14.99; $24.95, pb.

BOLIVIA

Nicole Fabricant, Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. xv+257, $69.95, $29.95 pb.

Daniel M. Goldstein, Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 327, £70.00, £16.99 pb.

BRAZIL

Joseph L. Love, The Revolt of the Whip (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xiv+157, £20.50; €26.00, pb.

CARIBBEAN

Ottmar Ette, Anne Kraume, Werner Mackenbach and Gesine Müller (eds.), El Caribe como paradigma: convivencias y coincidencias históricas, culturales y estéticas. Un simposio transareal (Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2012), pp. 427, pb.

Ottmar Ette, Werner Mackenbach, Gesine Müller and Alexandra Ortiz Wallner (eds.), Trans(it) Areas: convivencias en Centroamérica y el Caribe. Un simposio transareal (Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2012), pp. 371, pb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Ottmar Ette, Werner Mackenbach, Gesine Müller and Alexandra Ortiz Wallner (eds.), Trans(it) Areas: convivencias en Centroamérica y el Caribe. Un simposio transareal (Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2012), pp. 371, pb.

Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood (eds.), Mesoamerican Memory: Enduring Systems of Remembrance (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), pp. viii+320, $55.00, hb.

Dana Velasco Murillo, Mark Lentz and Margarita R. Ochoa (eds.), City Indians in Spain's American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1530–1810 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), pp. xv+244, £55.00, hb.

CUBA

Manuel Barcia, The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), pp. xii+234, $42.50; £32.50, e-book.

Manuel Ciges Aparicio (ed. and trans. D. J. Walker), On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896–1898 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012), pp. xi+246, $39.95, hb.

Laurie A. Frederik, Trumpets in the Mountains: Theatre and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xxii+336, £74.00, £17.99 pb.

Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959–1971 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. 488, $55.00, hb.

Rafael Ocasio, Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xvii+230, $74.95, hb.

Adriana Premat, Sowing Change: The Making of Havana's Urban Agriculture (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012), pp. xvii+181, $49.95, $24.95 pb.

GUATEMALA

David Carey Jr. (ed.), Distilling the Influence of Alcohol: Aguardiente in Guatemalan History (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xi+212, $74.95, hb.

HAITI

Jeb Sprague, Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012), pp. 400, $32.85, pb.

MEXICO

José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (ed.), Liberty in Mexico: Writings on Liberalism from the Early Republican Period to the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2012), pp. xxix+582, $14.50; £10.95, pb.

Lance R. Blyth, Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), pp. xiv + 277, £45.00, hb.

Luis R. Corteguera, Death by Effigy: A Case from the Mexican Inquisition (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), pp. xviii + 222, $39.95; £26.00, hb.

Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley (eds.), Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012), pp. xii + 277, $55.00, hb.

George W. Grayson and Samuel Logan, The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs and the Shadow State They Created (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers, 2012), pp. xxiii+271, $34.95, hb.

Moramay López-Alonso, Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xvii + 276, $65.00, hb.

John Mckiernan-González, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas–Mexico Border, 1848–1942 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xvi+416, £71.00, £17.99 pb.

Roger Magazine, The Village Is Like a Wheel: Rethinking Cargos, Family, and Ethnicity in Highland Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012), pp. xii + 153, $45.00, hb.

Heidi Moksnes, Maya Exodus: Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), pp. xxviii+339, $26.95, pb.

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xv+292, $27.95, hb.

Daniel M. Sabet, Police Reform in Mexico: Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xvi + 278, £35.95; €45.00, hb.

Benjamin T. Smith, The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750–1962 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xi+432, $34.95, pb.

Carolyn Tuttle, Mexican Women in American Factories: Fair Trade and Exploitation on the Border (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xvi+235, $55.00, hb.

Guillermo Trejo, Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xx+307, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

Jody Agius Vallejo, Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xiv + 231, €45.00; £35.95, hb.

Robert Weis, Bakers and Basques: A Social History of Bread in Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xii+217, $29.95, pb.

NICARAGUA

Rosario Montoya, Gendered Scenarios of Revolution: Making New Men and New Women in Nicaragua, 1975–2000 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012), pp. xxi+227, $55.00, hb.