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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , May 2012, pp. 429 - 434
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General

Vasant Kumar Bawa, Latin America: An Introduction (New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 2010), pp. xxvi + 321, Rs90.00, pb.

Cultural Studies

William H. Beezley and Linda A. Curcio-Nagy (eds.), Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction (2nd edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), pp. vii + 340, $21.95, pb.

Jorge J. E. Gracia, Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), pp. xix + 349, $30.00, pb.

Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (ed.), Historias enredadas: representaciones asimétricas con vista al Atlántico (Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2011), pp. 194, €19.80, pb.

History

Heraclio Bonilla (ed.), Indios, negros y mestizos en la independencia (Bogotá: Planeta and Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2010), pp. 336, pb.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, translated by Baker H. Morrow, The South American Expeditions, 1540–1545 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), pp. xxi + 240, $39.95, hb.

Laura Giraudo and Juan Martín-Sánchez (eds.), La ambivalente historia del indigenismo: campo interamericano y trayectorias nacionales, 1940–1970 (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2011), pp. 295, pb.

Edwin Raúl Greenwich Centeno, Francisco Pizarro: evidencias históricas y bioarqueológicas (Lima: Edwin Raúl Greenwich Centeno, 2009), pp. 114, pb.

Hernán Horna, A History of Latin America (Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2011), pp. 260, pb.

Ilona Katzew (ed.), Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 319, £45.00, hb.

Stefan Rinke, Las revoluciones en América Latina: las vías a la independencia, 1760–1830 (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2011), pp. 407, pb.

Stefan Rinke, Hans-Martin Hinz and Frederik Schulze (eds.), Bicentenario: 200 Jahre Unabhängiigkeit in Lateinamerika: Geschichte zwischen Erinnerung und Zukunft (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2011), pp. 388, €34.00, pb.

Josep-Ignasi Saranyana and Juan Bosco Amores Carredano (eds.), Política y religion en la independencia de la América hispanica (Madrid: Universidad de Navarra, 2011), pp. ix + 239, pb.

Politics

Markus-Michael Müller, Public Security in the Negotiated State: Policing in Latin America and Beyond (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xii + 269, £57.50, hb.

Sociology

Cathy McIlwaine (ed.), Cross-Border Migration among Latin Americans: European Perspectives and Beyond (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xvi + 262, £55.00, hb.

ANDES

Laura Gotkowitz (ed.), Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. vii + 400, £69.00, £16.99 pb.

Paul Heggarty and Adrian J. Pearce (eds.), History and Language in the Andes (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. xxi + 226, £55.00, hb.

Joy Logan, Aconcagua: The Invention of Mountaineering on America's Highest Peak (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011), pp. x + 251, $35.00, pb.

ARGENTINA

Jens Andermann, New Argentine Cinema (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012), pp. xx + 209, £16.99, pb.

Julio Djenderedjian, Sílcora Bearzotti and Juan Luis Martirén, Historia del capitalismo agrario pampeano, vol. 6: Expansión agrícola y colonización en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX (Buenos Aires: Teseo and Editorial Universidad de Belgrano, 2010), pp. 1112, pb.

Nina Elsemann, Umkämpfte Erinnerungen: Die Bedeutung lateinamerikanischer Erfahrungen für die spanische Geschichtspolitik nach Franco (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2010), pp. 372, €39.90, pb.

Florencia Garramuño, Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. xi + 200, £60.50; $85.00, $27.05 pb.

Alma Idiart (ed.), Estado benefactor y políticas sociales: historia, implementación y reforma de programas sociales en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2011), pp. 164, pb.

Philippa Page, Politics and Performance in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Film and Theatre (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Tamesis and Boydell & Brewer, 2011), pp. 188, £55.00, hb.

BOLIVIA

Nicole Fabricant and Bret Gustafson (eds.), Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State (Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, 2011), pp. viii + 251, $29.95, pb.

Ximena Soruco Sologuren, La ciudad de los cholos: mestizaje y colonialidad en Bolivia, siglos XIX y XX (Lima: IFEA and PIEB, 2011), pp. 258, pb.

BRAZIL

Lisa Beljuli Brown, Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and ‘Telenovelas’ in Brazil (London and New York: Anthem, 2011), pp. xxv + 156, £60.00; $99.00, hb.

Luiz Fernando de Paula, Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance: Brazil at the Crossroads (London and New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. xx + 237, £80.00, hb.

Mauricio A. Font and Laura Randall (eds.) with Janaina Saad, The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2011), pp. xi + 422, $51.95, hb.

Florencia Garramuño, Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. xi + 200, £60.50; $85.00, $27.05 pb.

Mariza de Carvalho Soares, People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xiii + 321, £66.00, £16.99 pb.

Caspar van Baerle and Blanche T. van Berckel-Ebeling Koning (ed.), The History of Brazil under the Governorship of Count Johan Maurits of Nassau, 1636–1644 (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011), pp. xxvii + 385, $79.95, hb.

CARIBBEAN

Raphael Dalleo, Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial (Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011), pp. xv + 296, $59.50, $29.50 pb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Robert Brenneman, Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xiii + 294, $24.95, pb.

Thomas C. Bruneau, Lucía Dammert and Elizabeth Skinner (eds.), Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011), pp. viii + 309, $55.00, $24.95 pb.

Laura Gotkowitz (ed.), Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. vii + 400, £69.00, £16.99 pb.

CHILE

Ximena de la Barra (ed.), Neoliberalism's Fractured Showcase: Another Chile is Possible (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011), pp. xxiii + 286, €99.00; $141.00, hb.

Nina Elsemann, Umkämpfte Erinnerungen: Die Bedeutung lateinamerikanischer Erfahrungen für die spanische Geschichtspolitik nach Franco (Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2010), pp. 372, €39.90, pb.

Alma Idiart (ed.), Estado benefactor y políticas sociales: historia, implementación y reforma de programas sociales en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2011), pp. 164, pb.

Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Cambridge, MA, and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011), pp. xiv + 326, £22.95, hb.

COLOMBIA

Michael Taussig, I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. xii + 173, $16.00; £10.50, pb.

CUBA

Harlan Abrahams and Arturo Lopez-Levy, Raúl Castro and the New Cuba: A Close-Up View of Change (Jefferson, NC, and London: MacFarland, 2011), pp. vii + 241, £40.95, pb.

Miguel A. Bretos, Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2011), pp. xvii + 317, £18.95, pb.

Peter Hulme, Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011), pp. xi + 455, £70.00, hb.

Sherry Johnson, Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), pp. xiii + 305, $39.95, hb.

Albert C. Persons, Bay of Pigs : A Firsthand Account of the Mission by a U. S. Pilot in Support of the Cuban Invasion Force in 1961 (Jefferson, NC, and London: MacFarland, 2011), pp. x + 162, £18.50, pb.

Michele Reid-Vazquez, The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011), pp. xiii + 251, $59.95, $24.95 pb.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios, Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. x + 372, $79.95, $29.95 pb; £55.00, £20.50 pb; $22.99; £16.00, ebook.

ECUADOR

Ernesto Capello, City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), pp. xx + 290, $27.95, pb.

GUATEMALA

Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson and Elizabeth Oglesby (eds.), The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xxii + 663, £67.00, £19.99 pb.

MEXICO

William H. Beezley, Mexico in World History (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xvi + 179, £45.00, £12.99 pb.

Elaine Carey and Andrae M. Marak (eds.), Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America's Borderlands (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011), pp. x + 250, $55.00, hb.

Daniela Gleizer, El exilio incómodo: México y los refugiados judíos, 1933–1945 (Mexico City: El Colegio de México and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2011), pp. 321, pb.

Adam David Morton, Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), pp. xix + 301, £49.95, hb.

NICARAGUA

David Close, Salvador Martí i Puig and Shelley A. McConnell (eds.), The Sandinistas and Nicaragua since 1979 (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2012), pp. vi + 365, £61.95, hb.

Pablo Yankelevich, ¿Deseables o inconvenientes? Las fronteras de la extranjería en el México posrevolucionario (Mexico City: Bonilla Artigas, 2011), pp. 203, pb.

PANAMA

Carlos Guevara Mann, Political Careers, Corruption, and Impunity: Panama's Assembly, 1984–2009 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), pp. xvii + 453, $48.00, pb.

PERU

Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia, The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2012), pp. xix + 318, £60.00, £16.99 pb.

Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker (eds.), José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011), pp. 480, $29.95, pb.

URUGUAY

Alma Idiart (ed.), Estado benefactor y políticas sociales: historia, implementación y reforma de programas sociales en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2011), pp. 164, pb.

VENEZUELA

José Antonio Kelly, State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations: A Symmetrical Ethnography (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2011), pp. xvii + 255, $55.00, hb.