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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 40 , Special Issue 4: Cuba: 50 Years of Revolution , November 2008, pp. 849 - 854
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Anthropology

Gow, David D., Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xi+300, $51.00; £12.99, pb.

Archaeology

Harper, Jo, Birth of the Fifth Sun and Other Mesoamerican Tales (Lubbock, TX: TexasTech University Press, 2008), pp. xii+112, $17.95, hb.

Cultural Studies

Washburne, Christopher, Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008), pp. xii+254, $26.95, pb.Tarica, Estelle, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp. xxx+240, $22.50, pb.

General

Luga-Ocando, Jairo (ed.), The Media in Latin America (Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2008), pp. xiv+275, $60.00; £19.99, pb.Dent, David W., Hot Spot: Latin America: Hot Spot Histories (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. xvi+270, $65.00; £37.95, hb.

History

Velasco, Antonio Zapata, Rojas, Rolando Rojas and Chávez, Nelson Pereyra (eds.) Historia y Cultura de Ayacucho (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2008), pp. 292, pb.Klein, Herbert S. and Vinson, Ben III, La Esclavitud Africana en América Latina y el Caribe (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1987, 2008), pp. 318, $12.50, pb.Blanchard, Peter, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. ix+242, $60.00, $26.95, pb.Brown, Matthew (ed.), Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. xi+274, $19.99; €27.00, pb.Walker, Charles F., Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiii+260, $48.00; £12.99, pb.Ross, Jill, Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. ix+305, $75.00; £48.00, hb.Yannakakis, Yanna, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xxi+290, $48.00; £12.99, pb.

International Relations

Kryzanek, Michael J., US – Latin American Relations (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. x+333, $29.95; £16.95, pb.Hernán, Enrique García, Consejero de ambos mundos: Vida y obra de Juan de Solórzano Pereira (1575–1655) (Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Cultura, 2007), pp. 421, hb.Brun, Élodie, Les Relations entre L'Amérique du Sud et le Moyen-Orient: Un exemple de relance Sud-Sud (Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2008), pp. 198, €19.00, pb.Roett, Riordan and Paz, Guadalupe (eds.), China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), pp. viii, $26.95, pb.Williams, Gary, US-Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard (New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), pp. xii+298, $84.95, hb.Grow, Michael, US Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008), pp. xiv+266, $34.95, hb.

Political Economy

Birdsall, Nancy, de la Torre, Augusto and Menezes, Rachel, Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), pp. xiii+216, $24.95, pb.Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Healthcare Reforms in Latin America (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+453, $75.00, hb.

Politics

Schlefer, Jonathan, Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008), pp. x+297, $60.00, $24.95, pb; £36.00, £13.99, pb.McBeth, Brian S., Dictatorship and Politics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiv+578, $60.00, hb.Freston, Paul (ed.), Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xxx+250, $24.95, pb.

Sociology

O'Brien, Eileen, The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. x+243, $70.00, $22.00, pb.Rodríguez, Rubén Rosario, Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. ix+297, $75.00, $24.00, pb.Albrecht, Elizabeth Soto, Family Violence: Reclaiming a Theology of Nonviolence: Women from the Margins (New York, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), pp. ix+182, $20.00, pb.Wilson, Catherine E., The Politics of Latino Faith: Religion, Identity, and Urban Community (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. ix+291, $75.00, $25.00, pb.

ANDES

Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.), Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900 (Oklahoma, OK: University of Oklahoma, 2008), Vol. 1–3, pp. xvi+441; xiii+363; xi+429, $195.00, hb.Arnold, Denise Y. and Hastorf, Christine A., Heads of State: Icons, Power and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008), pp. 293, $35.00; £18.99, pb.

ARGENTINA

Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.Heras, Raúl García, El Fondo monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina: Liberalismo, Populismo y Finanzas Internacionales (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Lumiere, 2008), pp. 222, $40.00, pb.

BRAZIL

Mosher, Jeffrey C., Political Struggle, Ideology and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil 1817–1850 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. xi, $27.00, hb.Lara, Silvia Hunold and Pacheco, Gustavo (eds.), Memória do Jongo: As Gravações Históricas de Stanley J. Stein: Vassouras 1949 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Edições Folha Seca, 2007), pp. 197, pb.Bourne, Richard, Lula of Brazil: The Story so Far (London: Zed Books, 2008), pp. xiv+285, £55.00, £16.99, pb; $100.95, $31.95, pb.Stroud, Sean, The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008), pp. ix+215, £50.00, hb.McAllister, Lesley K., Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books, Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xix+264, $55.00, hb.Wilson, Robert H., Ward, Peter M., Spink, Peter K. and Rodríguez, Victoria E., with others, Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico and the USA (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiii+337, $35.00, pb.McAllister, Lesley K., Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection & Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xix+264, $55.00, hb.

CARIBBEAN

Torrijos, Giancarlo Soler, In the Shadow of the United States: Democracy and Regional Order in the Latin Caribbean (Florida, FL: Brown Walker Press, 2008), pp. vii+209, $24.95, pb.Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Romero-Cesareo, Ivette (eds.), Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. xii+252, $59.95, hb.Williams, Gary, US-Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard (New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), pp. xii+298, $84.95, hb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Greentree, Todd, Crossroads of Intervention: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008), pp. xiii+196, $49.95; £27.95, hb.

CHILE

González, Francisco E., Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. x+286, $55.00, $25.00, pb.

COLOMBIA

Gow, David D., Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xi+300, £51.00, £12.99, pb.

CUBA

Gray, Alexander I. and Kapcia, Antoni (eds.), The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. x+202, $59.95, hb.

GUATEMALA

Brett, Roddy, Social Movements, Indigenous Politics and Democratisation in Guatemala 1985–1996 (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008), pp. xv+229, $86.00, hb.

HONDURAS

Pine, Adrienne, Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), pp. xiv, £11.95, pb.

MEXICO

Bortz, Jeffrey, Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910–1923 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xi+247, $65.00, hb.Dahl-Bredine, Phil and Hicken, Stephen, The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), pp. xv+191, $19.00, pb.Espinosa, Gastón and García, Mario T. (eds.) Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. x+443, £57.00, £13.99, pb.Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.González, Francisco E., Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. x+286, $55.00, $25.00, pb.Hershfield, Joanne, Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiv+200, £48.00, £12.99, pb.Kyle, Chris, Feeding Chilapa: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), pp. xvii+269, $45.00, $24.95, pb.Levy, Santiago, Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 2008), pp. xiii+357, £16.99, pb.Owensby, Brian P., Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. x+379, $65.00, hb.Schlefer, Jonathan, Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008), pp. x+297, $60.00, $24.95, pb; £36.00, £13.99, pb.Shaw, Justine M., White Roads of the Yucatán: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008), pp. xi+226, $45.00, hb.Wilson, Robert H., Ward, Peter M., Spink, Peter K. and Rodríguez, Victoria E., with others, Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico and the USA (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiii+337, $35.00, pb.Witherspoon, Kevin B., Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press), pp. xi+212, $35.00, hb.Yannakakis, Yanna, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xxi+290, £48.00, £12.99, pb.

PARAGUAY

Warren, Harris Gaylord, Paraguay: Revoluciones y finanzas (Asunción, Paraguay: Servilibro, 2008), pp. 394, pb.

PATAGONIA

Moss, Chris, Patagonia: A Cultural History (Oxford, UK: Signal Books, 2008), pp. xxii+299, £12.00, pb.

PERU

Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.Walker, Charles F., Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008) pp. xiii+260, £48.00, £12.99, pb.Velasco, Antonio Zapata, Rojas, Rolando Rojas and Chávez, Nelson Pereyra (eds.) Historia y Cultura de Ayacucho (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2008), pp. 292, pb.

References

Gow, David D., Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xi+300, $51.00; £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Harper, Jo, Birth of the Fifth Sun and Other Mesoamerican Tales (Lubbock, TX: TexasTech University Press, 2008), pp. xii+112, $17.95, hb.Google Scholar
Washburne, Christopher, Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008), pp. xii+254, $26.95, pb.Google Scholar
Tarica, Estelle, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp. xxx+240, $22.50, pb.Google Scholar
Luga-Ocando, Jairo (ed.), The Media in Latin America (Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2008), pp. xiv+275, $60.00; £19.99, pb.Google Scholar
Dent, David W., Hot Spot: Latin America: Hot Spot Histories (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. xvi+270, $65.00; £37.95, hb.Google Scholar
Velasco, Antonio Zapata, Rojas, Rolando Rojas and Chávez, Nelson Pereyra (eds.) Historia y Cultura de Ayacucho (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2008), pp. 292, pb.Google Scholar
Klein, Herbert S. and Vinson, Ben III, La Esclavitud Africana en América Latina y el Caribe (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1987, 2008), pp. 318, $12.50, pb.Google Scholar
Blanchard, Peter, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. ix+242, $60.00, $26.95, pb.Google Scholar
Brown, Matthew (ed.), Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. xi+274, $19.99; €27.00, pb.Google Scholar
Walker, Charles F., Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiii+260, $48.00; £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Ross, Jill, Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. ix+305, $75.00; £48.00, hb.Google Scholar
Yannakakis, Yanna, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xxi+290, $48.00; £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Kryzanek, Michael J., US – Latin American Relations (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. x+333, $29.95; £16.95, pb.Google Scholar
Hernán, Enrique García, Consejero de ambos mundos: Vida y obra de Juan de Solórzano Pereira (1575–1655) (Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Cultura, 2007), pp. 421, hb.Google Scholar
Brun, Élodie, Les Relations entre L'Amérique du Sud et le Moyen-Orient: Un exemple de relance Sud-Sud (Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2008), pp. 198, €19.00, pb.Google Scholar
Roett, Riordan and Paz, Guadalupe (eds.), China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), pp. viii, $26.95, pb.Google Scholar
Williams, Gary, US-Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard (New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), pp. xii+298, $84.95, hb.Google Scholar
Grow, Michael, US Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008), pp. xiv+266, $34.95, hb.Google Scholar
Birdsall, Nancy, de la Torre, Augusto and Menezes, Rachel, Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), pp. xiii+216, $24.95, pb.Google Scholar
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Healthcare Reforms in Latin America (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xxvi+453, $75.00, hb.Google Scholar
Schlefer, Jonathan, Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008), pp. x+297, $60.00, $24.95, pb; £36.00, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
McBeth, Brian S., Dictatorship and Politics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiv+578, $60.00, hb.Google Scholar
Freston, Paul (ed.), Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xxx+250, $24.95, pb.Google Scholar
O'Brien, Eileen, The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. x+243, $70.00, $22.00, pb.Google Scholar
Rodríguez, Rubén Rosario, Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. ix+297, $75.00, $24.00, pb.Google Scholar
Albrecht, Elizabeth Soto, Family Violence: Reclaiming a Theology of Nonviolence: Women from the Margins (New York, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), pp. ix+182, $20.00, pb.Google Scholar
Wilson, Catherine E., The Politics of Latino Faith: Religion, Identity, and Urban Community (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008), pp. ix+291, $75.00, $25.00, pb.Google Scholar
Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.), Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900 (Oklahoma, OK: University of Oklahoma, 2008), Vol. 1–3, pp. xvi+441; xiii+363; xi+429, $195.00, hb.Google Scholar
Arnold, Denise Y. and Hastorf, Christine A., Heads of State: Icons, Power and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008), pp. 293, $35.00; £18.99, pb.Google Scholar
Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.Google Scholar
Heras, Raúl García, El Fondo monetario y el Banco Mundial en la Argentina: Liberalismo, Populismo y Finanzas Internacionales (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Lumiere, 2008), pp. 222, $40.00, pb.Google Scholar
Mosher, Jeffrey C., Political Struggle, Ideology and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil 1817–1850 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. xi, $27.00, hb.Google Scholar
Lara, Silvia Hunold and Pacheco, Gustavo (eds.), Memória do Jongo: As Gravações Históricas de Stanley J. Stein: Vassouras 1949 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Edições Folha Seca, 2007), pp. 197, pb.Google Scholar
Bourne, Richard, Lula of Brazil: The Story so Far (London: Zed Books, 2008), pp. xiv+285, £55.00, £16.99, pb; $100.95, $31.95, pb.Google Scholar
Stroud, Sean, The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008), pp. ix+215, £50.00, hb.Google Scholar
McAllister, Lesley K., Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books, Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xix+264, $55.00, hb.Google Scholar
Wilson, Robert H., Ward, Peter M., Spink, Peter K. and Rodríguez, Victoria E., with others, Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico and the USA (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiii+337, $35.00, pb.Google Scholar
McAllister, Lesley K., Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection & Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xix+264, $55.00, hb.Google Scholar
Torrijos, Giancarlo Soler, In the Shadow of the United States: Democracy and Regional Order in the Latin Caribbean (Florida, FL: Brown Walker Press, 2008), pp. vii+209, $24.95, pb.Google Scholar
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Romero-Cesareo, Ivette (eds.), Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. xii+252, $59.95, hb.Google Scholar
Williams, Gary, US-Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard (New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), pp. xii+298, $84.95, hb.Google Scholar
Greentree, Todd, Crossroads of Intervention: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008), pp. xiii+196, $49.95; £27.95, hb.Google Scholar
González, Francisco E., Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. x+286, $55.00, $25.00, pb.Google Scholar
Gow, David D., Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xi+300, £51.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Gray, Alexander I. and Kapcia, Antoni (eds.), The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. x+202, $59.95, hb.Google Scholar
Brett, Roddy, Social Movements, Indigenous Politics and Democratisation in Guatemala 1985–1996 (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008), pp. xv+229, $86.00, hb.Google Scholar
Pine, Adrienne, Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), pp. xiv, £11.95, pb.Google Scholar
Bortz, Jeffrey, Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910–1923 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. xi+247, $65.00, hb.Google Scholar
Dahl-Bredine, Phil and Hicken, Stephen, The Other Game: Lessons from How Life Is Played in Mexican Villages (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), pp. xv+191, $19.00, pb.Google Scholar
Espinosa, Gastón and García, Mario T. (eds.) Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism, and Culture (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. x+443, £57.00, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.Google Scholar
González, Francisco E., Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. x+286, $55.00, $25.00, pb.Google Scholar
Hershfield, Joanne, Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xiv+200, £48.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Kyle, Chris, Feeding Chilapa: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), pp. xvii+269, $45.00, $24.95, pb.Google Scholar
Levy, Santiago, Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 2008), pp. xiii+357, £16.99, pb.Google Scholar
Owensby, Brian P., Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp. x+379, $65.00, hb.Google Scholar
Schlefer, Jonathan, Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2008), pp. x+297, $60.00, $24.95, pb; £36.00, £13.99, pb.Google Scholar
Shaw, Justine M., White Roads of the Yucatán: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008), pp. xi+226, $45.00, hb.Google Scholar
Wilson, Robert H., Ward, Peter M., Spink, Peter K. and Rodríguez, Victoria E., with others, Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico and the USA (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. xiii+337, $35.00, pb.Google Scholar
Witherspoon, Kevin B., Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press), pp. xi+212, $35.00, hb.Google Scholar
Yannakakis, Yanna, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. xxi+290, £48.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Warren, Harris Gaylord, Paraguay: Revoluciones y finanzas (Asunción, Paraguay: Servilibro, 2008), pp. 394, pb.Google Scholar
Moss, Chris, Patagonia: A Cultural History (Oxford, UK: Signal Books, 2008), pp. xxii+299, £12.00, pb.Google Scholar
Finkel, Jodi S., Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2008), pp. x+157, $22.00, pb.Google Scholar
Walker, Charles F., Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru and its Long Aftermath (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2008) pp. xiii+260, £48.00, £12.99, pb.Google Scholar
Velasco, Antonio Zapata, Rojas, Rolando Rojas and Chávez, Nelson Pereyra (eds.) Historia y Cultura de Ayacucho (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2008), pp. 292, pb.Google Scholar