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Books Received

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , November 2012, pp. 853 - 858
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

General

Anthropology and Sociology

John D. Early, Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xvi + 499, $74.95, hb.

Archaeology

Megan E. O'Neil, Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), pp. xvi + 256, $55.00, hb.

Cynthia Robin (ed.), Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xix + 392, $79.95, hb.

Cultural Studies

Rex Clark and Oliver Lubrich (eds.), Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), pp. x + 357, £120.00, hb.

Rex Clark and Oliver Lubrich (eds.), Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), pp. xv + 465, $120.00, hb.

Deborah Cohn, The Latin American Literary Boom and U. S. Nationalism during the Cold War (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012), pp. xiii + 264, £31.50, pb.

Gisela Heffes (ed.), Poéticas de los Dislocamientos (Houston, TX: Literal Publishing, 2012), pp. 300, $19.95, pb.

Kerry M. Hull and Michael D. Carrasco (eds.), Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial and Classic Maya Literature (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012), pp. xi + 493, $85.00, hb.

Claire Lindsay (ed.), Traslados/Translations: Essays on Latin America in Honour of Jason Wilson (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2012), pp. xx + 111, £20.00; $32.25; €23.14, pb.

Sandra Messinger Cypess, Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz and the Battle for Cultural Memory (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xii + 247, $50.00, hb.

Ángel Rama, Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xix + 243, £64.00, £15.99 pb.

Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. xx + 363, $89.00, $26.00 pb.

Economics

Edmund Amann and John Cantwell (eds.), Innovative Firms in Emerging Market Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xvii + 384, £60.00, hb.

Javier Santiso and Jeff Dayton-Johnson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 620, £95.00, hb.

Environment

Anthony Hall, Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. xv + 213, £65.00, hb.

General

Ronaldo Munck, Contemporary Latin America (3rd revised and updated edition, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xviii + 309, £21.99, pb.

History

John F. Chuchiak IV (ed.), The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. xxii + 428, £18.00, pb.

John J. TePaske, A New World of Gold and Silver (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. xxii + 340, €101.00; $140, hb.

International Relations

Thomas C. Mills, Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939–1945 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. x + 283, £70.00, hb.

Politics

Francisco E. González, Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), pp. x + 281, £23.50, pb.

Raúl L. Madrid, The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xvi + 239, £60.00, £17.99 pb; $95.00, $28.99 pb.

Judith A. Teichman, Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile and Mexico (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xii + 251, $80.00, $24.95 pb.

Sociology

Carolyn Chen and Russell Jeung (eds.), Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. ix + 271, $80.00, $28.00 pb.

ARGENTINA

Oscar H. Aelo, El peronismo en la provincia de Buenos Aires, 1946–1955 (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, 2012), pp. 244, pb.

Matthew B. Karush, Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 275, £64.00, £15.99 pb.

Jessica Stites Mor, Transition Cinema: Political Film-Making and the Argentine Left since 1968 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. xii + 264, $24.95, pb.

José Antonio Sánchez Román, Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xiv + 245, £57.50, hb.

BOLIVIA

Frances R. Payne, They Make Us Dangerous (Bolivia 1964–1980): A Memoir (Bloomington, IN: XLibris, 2012), pp. x + 257, $29.99 hb, $19.99 pb, $3.99 e-book.

BRAZIL

Samuel Cohn, Employment and Development under Globalization: State and Economy in Brazil (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xiv + 236, £57.50, hb.

G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, $74.95, hb.

Samantha Nogueira Joyce, Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), pp. v + 129, £37.99, hb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Julie Marie Bunck and Michael Ross Fowler, Bribes, Bullets and Intimidation: Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xii + 431, $89.95, hb.

Laura Hobson Herlihy, The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver: Gender, Sexuality and Money on the Miskito Coast (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xii + 196, $29.95, pb.

Iván Molina Jiménez, Revolucionar el pasado: la historiografía costarricense del siglo XIX al XXI (San José, Costa Rica: Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 2012), pp. xv + 198, pb.

Marco Piñón, Alejandro López-Mejía, Mario Garza and Fernando L. Delgado (eds.), Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic: Challenges following the 2008–09 Global Crisis (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2012), pp. xi + 268, $25.00, pb.

CHILE

Mary Heebner and Macduff Everton, Patagonia, La Última Esperanza: Last Hope Province in Chile's Southern Region of Magallanes and Antártica (Santa Barbara, CA, and Puerto Natales, Chile: Tixcacalcupul Press, 2011), pp. 233, $65.00, hb.

Francisca Rengifo S., Vida conyugal, maltrato y abandono: el divorcio eclesiástico en Chile, 1850–1890 (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2011), pp. 339, pb.

COLOMBIA

Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara, Impresariado en Colombia: perspectiva histórica y regional (Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2012), pp. 338, pb.

Michael J. LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía, Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), pp. xx + 263, $34.99; £21.95, hb.

CUBA

José Antonio Alonso, Francesc Bayo and Susanne Gratius (eds.), Cuba en tiempos de cambios (Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2011), pp. 181, pb.

Martin Holbraad, Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. xxiii + 320, $26.00; £17.00, pb.

Par Kumaraswami (ed.), Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Nationally and Regionally: Politics, Culture and Identity (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 181, £19.99, pb.

ECUADOR

A. Kim Clark, Gender, State and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895–1950 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. xii + 255, $27.95, pb.

Christien Klaufus, Urban Residence: Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), pp. xvi + 313, $95.00; £60.00, hb.

EL SALVADOR

Irina Carlota Silber, Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2011), pp. xix + 238, $27.95, pb.

GUATEMALA

Laura E. Matthew, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. xii + 318, £39.00; €46.00, hb.

HAITI

Richard Frechette, Haiti: The God of Tough Places, the Lord of Burnt Men (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Books, 2012), pp. x + 124, £17.00; €21.00, pb.

MEXICO

Christopher Boyer (ed.), A Land between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012), pp. viii + 307, $55.00, hb.

José Angel Hernández, Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xvii + 266, £55.00, £19.99 pb; $90.00, $29.99 pb.

Laura A. Lewis, Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race and Place in the Making of ‘Black’ Mexico (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xv + 370, £71.00, £16.99 pb.

Víctor M. Macías-González and Anne Rubenstein (eds.), Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xii + 280, $31.95, pb.

Thomas Marois, States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. xi + 263, £70.00, hb.

Laura E. Matthew, Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), pp. xii + 318, £39.00; €46.00, hb.

Wil G. Pansters (ed.), Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xxii + 378, $70.00, hb.

Frances L. Ramos, Identity, Ritual and Power in Colonial Puebla (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2012), pp. xxxiii + 247, $29.95, pb.

Jaime E. Rodríguez O., We Are Now the True Spaniards: Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xx + 497, £62.95, hb.

Ananda Rose, Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. vii + 186, £18.99, hb.

William J. Suarez-Potts, The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico. 1875–1931 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. x + 348, £60.00, hb.

Araceli Tinajero, Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón (Madrid, Editorial Verbum, 2012), pp. 166, €12.00, pb.

Peter Watt and Roberto Zepeda, Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy (London and New York: Zed Books, 2012), pp. x + 260, £16.99; $29.95, pb.

Thomas Weaver, James B. Greenberg, William L. Alexander and Anne Browning Aiken (eds.), Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012), pp. xi + 354, $65.00, hb.