The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes of articles and other general texts that will be of interest to our readership. These works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, and thus a considerable backlog has developed. To introduce these volumes, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries for those we have received. The volumes selected for this issue include recently received textbooks and primary source readers.
The Maya. 9th ed. Edited by Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. New York: Thames and Hudson Press, 2015. Pp. 314. Chronological table. Further reading. Sources. Index.
Preface
Chronological Table
1. Introduction
The Setting
Natural Resources
Areas
Period
Peoples and Languages
Climate Change and Its Cultural Impact
2. The Earliest Maya
Early Hunters
Archaic Collectors and Cultivators
Early Preclassic Villages
The Middle Preclassic Expansion
Preclassic Kaminaljuyu
The Maya Lowlands
3. The Ride of Maya Civilization
The Birth of the Calendar
Izapa and the Pacific Coast
The Hero Twins and the Creation of the World (Box)
Kaminaljuyu and the Maya Highlands
The Peten and the Maya Lowlands
The Mirador Region
San Bartolo
From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya Lowlands
4. Classic Splendor: The Early Period
Defining the Early Classic
Teotihuacan: Military Giant
The Esperanza culture
Cerén: A New World Pompeii?
Tazkol Culture in the Central Area
Copan in the Early Classic
The Northern Area
5. Classic Splendor: The Late Period
Classic Sites in the Central Area
Copan and Quirigua
Tikal
Calakmul
Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak
The Petexbatún
Palenque
Comalcalco and Tonina
Classic Sites in the Northern Area:
Río Bec
Chenes
Coba
Art of the Late Classic
6. The Terminal Classic
The Great Collapse
Ceibal and the Putun Maya
Puuc Sites in the Northern Area
The Terminal Classic at Chichen Itza
Ek'Balam
The Cotzumalhuapa Problem
The End of an Era
7. The Postclassic
The Toltec Invasion and Chichen Itza
The Itza and the City of Mayapan
The Independent States of Yucatán
The Central Area in the Postclassic
Maya-Mexican Dynasties in the Southern Area
The Spanish Conquest
8. Maya Life on The Eve of The Conquest
The Farm and the Chase
Industry and Commerce
The Life Cycle
Society and Politics
9. Maya Thought and Culture
Being Religious
Ordering the Universe
Gods and Spirits
Numbers and the Calendar
The Sun and the Moon
The Celestial Wanderers and the Stars
The Nature of Maya Writing
History Graven in Stone
The Great Game
A Possessed World
10. The Enduring Maya
The New Spanish Order
The Highland Maya, Yesterday and Today
The Tsotsil Maya of Zinacantan
The Yukateko Maya
The War of the Castes
The Maya of Chan Kom
The Lakandon
Uprising in Chiapas
The Great Terror
The Maya Future
Visiting the Maya Area
Dynastic Rules of Classic Maya Cities
Further Reading
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Women and Gender in Modern Latin America: Historical Sources and Interpretations. By Pamela S. Murray. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 362. Acknowledgments.
Introduction
Engendering the Era of Latin American Independence, 1810–1820s
Women and Aspects of Everyday Life, 1820s–c. 1870
Gender and Nation, 1830–c. 1880
Rise of Feminism, 1880s–c. 1934
Economic Modernization and Gendered Divisions of Labor, c. 1900–1970
Women in the Age of Nationalism and Social Revolution, 1930s–c. 1980
Engendering Reaction and Rights Struggles, 1970s–c. 1990
Sex, Marriage, and Family within Changing Societies, 1960s–c. 2000
Women and Gender in an Era of Globalization, c. 1980–2000s
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The Women of Colonial Latin America. 2nd ed. By Susan Migden Socolow. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 249. Acknowledgments. Index.
Introduction: Why Women?
Iberian Women in the Old World and the New
Before Columbus: Women in Indigenous America and Africa
Conquest and Colonization
The Arrival of Iberian Women
Women, Marriage, and Family
Elite Women
The Brides of Christ and Other Religious Women
Women and Work
Women and Slavery
Women and Social Deviance: Crime, Witchcraft, and Rebellion
Women and Enlightenment Reform
Conclusion
Documents
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren H. Derby, and Raymundo Gonzalez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 527. References. Index.
I. European Encounters
The People Who Greeted Columbus
Irving Rouse
Religion of the Taíno People
Ramón Pané
First Descriptions of the Land, First Violence against Its People
Christopher Columbus
Death of the Spanish at Navidad
Diego Álvarez Chanca
The First Christian Converts—and Martyrs—in the New World
Ramón Pané
Founding Santo Domingo
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
The Indian Monarchs
Luis Joseph Peguero
Criminals as Kings
Bartolomé de Las Casas
A Voice in the Wilderness: Brother Antonio Montesino
Bartolomé de Las Casas
The Royal Response
Ferdinand I
II. Pirates, Governors, and Slaves
Las Casas Blamed for the African Slave Trade
Augustus Francis MacNutt
The Slave Problem in Santo Domingo
Álvaro de Castro
Lemba and The Maroons of Hispaniola
Alonso López de Cerrato
Francis Drake's Sacking of Santo Domingo
Walter Bigges
Colonial Delinquincy
Carlos Esteban Deive
The Bulls
Flérida de Nolasco
The Buccaneers of Hispaniola
Alexander O. Exquemelin
Business Deals with the Buccaneers
Jean-Baptiste Labat
The Idea of Value on Hispaniola
Antonio Sánchez Valverde
III. Revolutions
The Monteros and the Guerreros
Manual Vicente Hernández González
The Border Maroons of Le Maniel
Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry
The “People-Eater”
Raymundo González
The Boca Nigua Revolt
David Patrick Geggus
Hayti and San Domingo
James Franklin
Toussaint's Conquest
Jonathan Brown
After the War, Tertulias
William Walton Jr
Stupid Spain
Carlos Urrutia de Montoya
The Dominican Bolívar
José Núñez de Cáceres
Arrogant Bell Bottoms
César Nicolás Penson
Dominicans, Unite!: La Trinitaria
IV. Caudillos and Empires
Pedro Santana
Miguel Angel Monclús
The Caudillo of the South
Buenaventura Báez
In the Army Camp at Bermejo
Pedro Francisco Bonó
The War of the Restoration
Carlos Vargas
Spanish Recolonization: A Postmortem
US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo
Making the Case for US Annexation
Ulysses S. Grant
Dominican Support for Annexation
US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo
Opposition to US Annexation
Justin S. Morrill
Dominican Nationalism versus Annexation
Gregorio Luperón
A Lesson in “Quiet Good-Breeding”
Samuel Hazard
Martí’s Travel Notes
José Martí
Ulises “Lilís” Heureaux
Américo Lugo
Your Friend, Ulises
Ulises Heureaux
V. The Idea of the Nation: Order and Progress
Street People and Godparents
Luis Emilio Gómez Alfau
From Paris to Santo Domingo
Francisco Moscoso Puello
Public Enemies: The Revolutionary and the Pig
Emiliano Tejera
The “Master of Décimas”
Juan Antonio Alix
Barriers to Progress: Revolutions, Diseases, Holidays, and Cockfights
Pedro Francisco Bonó
Food, Race, and Nation
Lauren Derby
Tobacco to the Rescue
Pedro Francisco Bonó
Patrons, Peasants, and Tobacco
Michiel Baud
Salomé
Salomé Ureña de Henríquez
The Case for Commerce, 1907
Dominican Department of Promotion and Public Works
VI. Dollars, Gunboats, and Bullets
Uneasiness about the US Government
Emiliano Tejera
In the Midst of Revolution: US Receivership of Dominican Custom
Galliveros, Listín Diario
A Resignation and a Machine Gun
Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost
The “Water Torture” and Other Abuses
US Senate, Hearings before a Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo
The Land of Bullet-Holes
Harry Franck
American Sugar Kingdom
César J. Ayala
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in San Pedro de Macorís
Officers and Members of the Association
The Crime of Wilson
Fabio Fiallo
VII. The Era of Trujillo
The Haitian Massacre
Eyewitnesses
Message to Dominican Women
Darío Contreras
The Sugar Strike of 1946
Roberto Cassá
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation
Catherine C. LeGrand
Biography of a Great Leader
Abelardo Nanita
A Diplomat's Diagnosis of the Dictator
Richard A. Johnson
A British View of the Dictatorship
W. W. McVittie
Exile Invasions
Anonymous, Armed Forces Magazine
I Am Minerva!
Mu-Kien Adriana Sang
VIII. The Long Transition to Democracy
“Basta Ya!”: A Peasant Woman Speaks Out
Aurora Rosado
Without Begging God
Joaquín Balaguer
The Masters, Juan Bosch
The Rise and Demise of Democracy, CIA Reports, 1961–1963
“Ni Mató, Ni Robó”
Juan Bosch
Fashion Police
Elías Wessin y Wessin
The Revolution of the Magi
José Francisco Peña Gómez
United States Intervention in the Revolution of 1965
William Bennett
The President of the United States Choose the Next President of the Dominican Republic
Lyndon Johnson
Operation Power Pack
Lawrence A. Yates
The Twelve Years
CIA Special Report
Why Not, Dr. Balaguer?
Orlando Martínez
Dominican, Cut the Cane!
State Sugar Council
The Blind Caudillo
Anonymous
The “Eat Alones” of the Liberation Party
Andrés L. Mateo
The Election of 2000
Central Election Commission
The Sour Taste of US-Dominican Sugar Policy
Matt Peterson
Leonel, Fidel, and Barack
Leonel Fernández, Fidel Castro, and Barack Obama
IX Religious Practices
Mercedes
Flérida de Nolasco
Altagracia
Anonymous
The Catholic Bishops Say No to the Dictator
The Five Bishops of the Dominican Republic
Liberation Theology
Octavio A. Beras
To Die in Villa Mella
Carlos Hernández Soto
A Tire Blowout Gives Entry into the World of Spiritism
Martha Ellen Davis
Díos Olivorio Mateo: The Living God
Irio Leonel Ramírez López
Jesus Is Callng You
France Jane “Fanny” Crosby
X. Popular Culture
Carnival and Holy Week
Luis Emilio Gómez Alfau
Tribulations of Dominican Racial Identity
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Origins of Merengue and Musical Instruments of the Republic
J. M. Coopersmith
Dominican Music on the World Stage: Eduardo Brito
Arístides Incháustegui
“The People Call All of It Merengue”
Johnny Ventura
A Bachata Party
Julio Arzeno
The Tiger
Rafael Damirón
La Montería: The Hunt for Wild Pigs and Goats
Martha Ellen Davis
Everyday Life in a Poor Barrio
Tahira Vargas
The Name is The Same as The Person
José Labourt
“I Hope It Rains…”: Juan Luis Guerra
Eric Paul Roorda
XI. The Dominican Disapora
The First Immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues, Crew Member of the Jonge Tobias An Fortuyn
Player to Be Named Later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil, First Dominican Major Leaguer
Enrique Rojas
The Dominican Dandy: Juan Marichal
Rob Ruck
The Queen of Merengue
Milly Quezada
Dominican Hip-Hop in Spain
Arianna Puello
Black Women Are Confusing, But the Hair Lets You Know
Ginetta Candelario
Lost Dominicanyorks
Luis Guarnizo
The Yola
Milagros Ricourt
The Dominican Who Won The Kentucky Derby
Joel Rosario
You Know You're Dominican...
Anonymous
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Keen's Latin American Civilization Volume One: The Colonial Era. 10th ed. Edited by Robert M. Buffington and Lila Caimari. Boulder: Westview Press, 2015. Pp. 320. References. $64.00 paper.
Part One: Indian and Hispanic Origins
I. Ancient America on the Eve of Conquest
Aztec Warfare
The Halls of Moctezuma
Aztec Industry and Commerce
The Condition of Aztec Agricultural Workers
An Aztec Mother Advises Her Daughter
Mayan Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture
The Mayan Social Order
Mayan Religious Life
Mayan Origin Myth
How the Inca Formed a Nation
The Village Basis of Incan Society
Two Views of the Inca Empire
II. Hispanic Society on the Eve of the Conquest
The Catholic Sovereigns
The Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Character
Columbus Sets the Stage
The Portrait of a Conqueror
Men's Honor and Women's Shame
Devotion to God
Part Two: Conquest and Colonization
III. Conquest
October 12, 1492
The Discovery of the Pacific
The Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma
Twilight over Tenochtitlan
Rendezvous at Cajamarca
How the New Laws Were Received in Peru
The Man Who Would Be King
Advice to a Would-Be Conqueror
Lope de Aguirre: Disillusioned Warrior
Journey's End
War and Cannibalism Among the Brazilian Indians
On Cannibals, Curious Customs, and Conflict
Living with the Enemy
IV. Colonization
The Strange Sermon of Fray Montesinos
The Laughter of Dr. Palacios Rubios
Bartolomé de Las Casas: God's Angry Man
All Humankind is One
The Portuguese Colonizer
The Slave Hunters
Aimoré: Word of Terror
Indian Forced Labor in Guatemala
Debt Peonage in Peru
Dialogue in Yucatan
Guaman Poma Assesses the Conquest
Part Three: The Colonial Political Economy
V. The Colonial Economy
The Indian Agricultural Heritage
Spain's Contributions to New World Agriculture
The Potosí Mine
The Colonial Factory
On the Sea-Road to the Indies
The Great Fair at Portobello
A Foreign View of the Spanish Commercial System
The Rise and Fall of Villa Rica
VI. Colonial Political and Religious Institutions
The New Laws
“These Laws Are Obeyed But Not Enforced”
Colonial Pomp and Circumstance
“I have Seen Corruption Boil and Bubble”
The Corregidor: Enemy of the People
City Government in the Spanish Indies
The Jesuit Indian Policy
The Administration of Colonial Brazil
Local Government: The Capitão-Mor
Part Four: Colonial Society and Culture
VII. Colonial Society
The Colonial City: Mexico City
The Mestizo: Seed of Tomorrow
The Indian Town
The Structure of Class and Caste
Racial Anxieties
The World of the Sugar Plantation
The Free Population
The Social Consequences of Slavery
VIII. Colonial Culture
The Colonial University
The Tenth Muse
On The Foolishness of Men
Gender Trouble
Gaucho Entertainment
Indians and the Environment
Sexual and Racial Politics
Part Five: Late Colonial Developments
IX. The Bourbon Reforms
The Bourbon Commercial Reforms
The Revival of Mining
The New Experimental Sciences and Catholic Education
Colonial Industry in Decline
Political Reform: The Intendant System
The More Things Change...
X. Winds of Change
Colonial Journalism in Action
A Colonial Freethinker
A Plan for Democratic Education
The Plan of Tupac Amaru
A Heroine of the Tupac Amaru Revolt
A Charter of Liberty
Brazilian Slaves Resist
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Keen's Latin American Civilization Volume Two: The Modern Era. 10th ed. Edited by Robert M. Buffington and Lila Caimari. Boulder: Westview Press, 2015. Pp. 387. References. $42.00 paper.
Part One: Independence and Its Aftermath
I. The Struggle for Independence
The Forging of a Rebel
A Question of Leadership
Man of Destiny
The Romance of Independence
Liberal Revolution in Mexico
The Plan of Iguala
A Letter to Dom Pedro
Memories of Independence: The Sins of the Father
Memories of Independence: The Self-Effacing Leader
II. Searching for a New Road
The Fatal Legacy
In Defense of Spain
Bolivar's Ideal Republic
The Age of Violence
Civilization and Barbarism: Facundo Quiroga
Civilization and Barbarism: The Dangerous Classes
Mexico City under Santa Anna
Dom Pedro II: A Political Portrait
Part Two: Constructing the Nation-State
III. Real and Imagined Communities
Roads to the Future
The Guano Boom
Liberal Family Values
A Mexican Radical
Flora Tristan: Pioneer Feminist and Socialist
Black Slavery Under the Empire
The Antislavery Impulse
On Racial Miscegenation in Brazil
IV. Modernity and the Emergence of the Nation-State
Political Stability and Economic Development
Buenos Aires: First Impressions
A Different Model of Economic Development: A New Program for Chile
On The Power of Science
Porfirio Díaz Assesses His Legacy
A Popular Perspective on Modernity
The Victory of the Abolitionist Cause
Carioca Belle Epoque
Our America
Socialist Perspectives
Part Three: Consolidating the Nation-State
V. The Rise of Mass Politics and Culture
For Land and Liberty
A Revolutionary Constitution
The “Indian Problem”
What is APRA?
Cárdenas Speaks
Sunday in Mexico City
On the Protection of the Brazilian Work
Mulatto Football
Perón Appeals to the People
Eva Perón: On Women's Right to Vote
Letter to President Perón
Of Man, Woman, and Time
VI. Revolution, Democracy, and Dictatorship
The New Latifundio
Economic Dependency
“History Will Absolve Me”
Castro Defines the Theory of the Cuban Revolution
Advice for the Urban Guerrilla
Prelude to Dictatorship
The Death of Victor Jara
The Economic Underpinnings of the Dictatorship
Open Letter to the Military Junta
Mothers of the Disappeared
The Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution
VII. Democracy, Civil War, and Neoliberalism
The Era of Neoliberalism
Death of the “Mexican Economic Miracle”
Citizens Talk about the Police
Massacre in El Mozote
A Maoist People's War, According to Abimael Guzmán
Drugs and Civil Conflict
On the Role of Civil Society
Part Four: Challenges to the Nation-State
VIII. Globalization and Its Discontents
Lula Speaks Out
Communique from Subcomandante Marcos
The Three Lefts of Latin America
The New Populism
Challenging the Nation-State
Against Pro-Indian “Racism”
Drug War in Mexico
Sex and Revolution
Sexual Rights in Brazil
IX. The Two Americas
The Monroe Doctrine
The United States as Model
On the Uniqueness of Latin American Spirit
The White Man's Burden
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
To Roosevelt
Mexico's President Looks North
National Security
Operation Guatemala
Dissent Within the Ranks
Covert Operations
An International Response to a Hemispheric Problem
The Devil in the White House
