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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , May 2013, pp. 413 - 420
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Anthropology and Sociology

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Love & Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. ix+229, $75.00, $23.00 pb.

Leigh Binford, Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013), pp. xvi+281, $60.00, hb.

Merike Blofield, Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. x+185, $64.95, hb.

Daniel H. Levine, Politics, Religion and Society in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2012), pp. xiii+321, £49.95, hb.

David S. Parker and Louise E. Walker (eds.), Latin America's Middle Class: Unsettled Debates and New Histories (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. viii+227, £19.95, pb.

Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti-Crocker and Shawn Schulenberg (eds.), Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. x+176, $65.00, $27.99 pb and e-book; £39.95, £16.95 pb and e-book.

Archaeology

James John Aimers (ed.), Ancient Maya Pottery: Classification, Analysis, and Interpretation (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xiv+225, £67.95; €84.00, hb.

Julia Guernsey, Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xiv+231, £65.00; $99.00, hb.

José Luis de Rojas, Tenochtitlán: Capital of the Aztec Empire (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xiv+225, £64.60; €79.00, hb.

Cultural Studies

Dawn Ades, Rita Eder and Graciela Speranza (eds.), Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2012), pp. vii+224, $35.00, pb.

Ericka Beckman, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. xxix+254, $75.00, $25.00 pb.

Deborah Cullen, Rafael Ferrer (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. xii+128, $29.95, pb.

Guillermo Giucci, The Cultural Life of the Automobile: Roads to Modernity (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xix+238, $55.00, $24.95 pb.

Annette Leddy and Donna Conwell, Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2012), pp. viii+71, $20.00, pb.

Carolyn Merritt, Tango Nuevo (Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. xv+218, $24.95, hb.

Jodie Parys, Writing Aids: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), pp. viii+199, $55.95, hb.

Brígida M. Pastor and Lloyd Hughes Davies (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Women Writers (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2012), pp. 253, £55.00, hb.

Economics

Luis Bértola and José Antonio Ocampo, The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. xvi+312, £25.00, pb.

Sebastian Edwards, Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp. xiv+292, $17.00; £11.50, pb.

Environment

Michael Cepek, A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xvi+256, £45.00, hb; $60.00, $24.95 pb.

History

Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.), Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012), pp. xiii+330, $54.95, hb and e-book.

Mark A. Burkholder, Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars?(Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. xv+198, £14.99, pb.

Javier A. Galván, Latin American Dictators of the 20th Century: The Lives and Regimes of 15 Rulers (Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland, 2013), pp. vii+209, £40.00; €50.00, pb.

Carlos Marichal and Johanna von Grafenstein (eds.), El secreto del imperio español: los situados coloniales en el siglo XVIII (Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Instituto Mora, 2012), pp. 373, pb.

Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. x+293, $89.95, $24.95 pb; £67.00, £16.99 pb.

Sarah E. Owens and Jane E. Mangan (eds.), Women of the Iberian Atlantic (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), pp. vii+278, $26.95, pb.

Darlene J. Sadlier, Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xii+251, $55.00, hb.

Alexander von Humboldt, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. xxxv+618, $65.00; £42.00, hb.

Michael Zeuske, Simón Bolívar: History and Myth (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 2013), pp. 146, £29.61, pb.

International Relations

Neil A. Burron, The New Democracy Wars: The Politics of North American Democracy Promotion in the Americas (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. xxi+185, £55.00, hb.

Michael L. Conniff, Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance (3rd edition, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012), pp. xii+241, €24.95, pb and e-book.

Max Paul Friedman, Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xiv+358, £60.00, £21.99 pb; $95.00, $32.99 pb.

Christian Krohn-Hansen, Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics and Everyday Life (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. vi+312, $69.95; £45.50, hb.

David Pedersen, American Value: Migrants, Money and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. xx+316, $27.50; £18.00, pb.

Christabelle Peters, Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii+230, £55.00, hb.

Latino/Latina Studies

David R. Diaz and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds.), Latino Urbanism: The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment (New York and London: New York University Press, 2012), pp. vii+216, $75.00, $24.00 pb.

Louis G. Mendoza, A Journey around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration and the Latinoization of the U. S. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. x+218, £16.99, pb.

Claudia Milian, Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013), pp. x+301, $69.95, $24.95 pb and e-book.

Politics

Douglas Chalmers and Scott Mainwaring (eds.), Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies: Essays in Honor of Alfred Stepan (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. xii+487, $75.00 hb, $52.00 e-book.

Jordi Díez and Susan Franceschet (eds.), Comparative Public Policy in Latin America (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. x+315, £32.95, pb.

Tina Hilgers, Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. vi+258, £55.00, hb.

Nathan M. Jensen, Glen Biglaiser, Quan Li, Edmund Malesky, Pablo M. Pinto, Santiago M. Pinto and Joseph L. Staats, Politics and Foreign Direct Investment (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012), pp. viii+211, $35.00, pb.

ANDES

Michelle Bigenho, Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xii+230, $79.95, $22.95 pb.

Andrew Canessa, Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xiv+323, £71.00, £17.99 pb.

ARGENTINA

Javier Auyero, Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xii+196, £60.00, £14.99 pb.

Martín O. Castro, El ocaso de la república oligárquica: poder, política y reforma electoral, 1898–1912 (Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2012), pp. 391, pb.

Karen Ann Faulk, In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xvi+220, £21.50; €27.00, pb.

Diana Kapiszewski, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xi+289, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

Natalia Milanesio, Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 2013), pp. xi+307, $55.00, hb.

David M. K. Sheinin, Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), pp. x+216, $64.95, hb.

Elana Shever, Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xiii+231, $70.00, $22.95 pb and e-book.

Marta Sierra, Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xiv+240, £58.00, hb.

BOLIVIA

Jean-Paul Faguet, Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012), pp. xi+358, $85.00, hb.

BRAZIL

Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.), Inside a Champion: An Analysis of the Brazilian Development Model (Rio de Janeiro: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2012), pp. 224, pb.

Steven Byrd, Calunga and the Legacy of an African Language in Brazil (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. x+278, $45.00, hb.

H. B. Cavalcanti, Almost Home: A Brazilian American's Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), pp. xiii+199, £25.00; €32.00, pb.

André Cicalo, Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii+229, £55.00, hb.

Diana Kapiszewski, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xi+289, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

José Murilo de Carvalho, The Formation of Souls: Imagery and the Republic in Brazil (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. xx+189, $28.00, pb.

Joaquim Nabuco, My Formative Years (Oxford: Signal Books, 2012), pp. xxx+201, £12.99, pb.

Gail D. Triner, Mining and the State in Brazilian Development (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011), pp. xvii+253, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

CARIBBEAN

Victor Bulmer-Thomas, The Economic History of the Caribbean since the Napoleonic Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. xxii+710, £80.00, £29.99 pb; $120.00, $44.99 pb.

Diana Paton and Maarit Forde (eds.), Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xii+354, £75.00, £18.99 pb.

Fernando Picó, One Frenchman, Four Revolutions: General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 2013), pp. 146, £27.00, pb.

Lara Putnam, Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), pp. xiii+322, $69.95, $29.95 pb.

CHILE

Joanna Crow, The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013), pp. xvi + 288, $74.95, hb.

Ana María Stuven and Gabriel Cid, Debates republicanos en Chile, Siglo XIX, vol. 1 (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2012), pp. 627, pb.

COLOMBIA

Margot Andrade, La Colombie et la France: relations culturelles, XIX–XX Siècles (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012), pp. 284, €30.00, pb.

Deborah Martin, Painting, Literature and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940–2005: Of Border Guards, Nomads and Women (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2012), pp. x+234, £55.00, hb.

COSTA RICA

Andrew P. Miller, Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), pp. xii+131, £37.95, hb.

CUBA

Parvathi Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia, Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-Building and the Book (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. xii+265, £70.00, hb.

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Cuba en la era de Raúl Castro: reformas económico-sociales y sus efectos (Madrid: Colibrí, 2012), pp. 336, pb.

Christabelle Peters, Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xii+230, £55.00, hb.

ECUADOR

Michael Cepek, A Future for Amazonia: Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. xvi+256, £45.00; $60.00, $24.95 pb.

Jill DeTemple, Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. x+244, $38.00 pb; $26.60 e-book.

EL SALVADOR

David Pedersen, American Value: Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. xx+316, $27.50; £18.00, pb.

GUATEMALA

Catherine Komisaruk, Labour and Love in Guatemala: The Eve of Independence (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xiii+338, £55.00; €69.00, hb.

J. T. Way, The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development and the Making of Modern Guatemala (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. x+310, £67.00, £16.99 pb.

HAITI

Justin Podur, Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN Occupation (London: Pluto, 2013), pp. x+192, £18.99, pb.

Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. lxiii+344, £75.00, £18.99 pb.

MEXICO

Mark Aspinwall, Side Effects: Mexican Governance under NAFTA's Labour and Environmental Agreements (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xviii+209, £21.50; €27.00, pb.

Steven B. Bunker, Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xiii+333, $50.00, hb.

James H. Cox, The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), pp. x+275, $75.00, $25.00 pb.

José Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Twilight of the Mission Frontier: Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768–1855 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xxx+323, £55.95; €69.00, hb.

Ben Fallaw, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xx+329, £67.00, £16.99 pb.

Joseph Kroger and Patrizia Granziera, Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas: Images of the Divine Feminine in Mexico (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. xviii+327, £25.00, pb.

Ingrid Kummels (ed.), Espacios mediáticos: cultura y representación en México (Berlin: Walter Frey, 2012), pp. 410, €36.00, pb.

Anna More, Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 350, $65.00; £42.50, hb.

Caterina Pizzigoni, The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico's Toluca Valley, 1650–1800 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xiii+324, $65.00, hb and e-book.

Richard J. Salvucci, Politics, Markets and Mexico's ‘London Debt’, 1823–1887 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xiii+326, £59.00; $96.00, hb.

Trevor Stack, Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), pp. xv+168, $45.00, hb.

Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xiv+369, £75.00, £17.99 pb.

NICARAGUA

Michael Johns, The Education of a Radical: An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012), pp. x+130, £16.99, pb.

PARAGUAY

Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson (eds.), The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xii+475, £75.00, £18.99 pb.

PERU

Carlos Iván Degregori, How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), pp. xix+250, £25.50; €32.00, pb.

Jason Seawright, Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xi+293, $60.00, hb.

Kimberly Theidon, Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. xiii+461, $75.00; £49.00, hb.

VENEZUELA

Manuel Anselmi, Chávez's Children: Ideology, Education and Society in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. viii+161, £37.95, hb.

Jason Seawright, Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), pp. xi+293, $60.00, hb.