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Volume 64 - Issue 2 - October 2007

Military History

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Nova Historía Militar Brasileira. Edited by Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, and Hendrik Kraay. Rio de Janeiro: FGV Editora, 2004. Pp. 459. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. $32.00 paper.

Nation Building/Nationalism

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Simón Bolívar: A Life. By John Lynch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 368. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 paper.

José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary. By Joseph E. Chance. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. Pp.xi, 283. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 cloth.

Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920. By Chris Frazer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. x, 243. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1935-1985. By Todd Hartch. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. Pp. xxii, 245. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Begegnungen mit dem Yankee: Nordamerikanisierung und soziokultureller Wandel in Chile (1898-1990). By Stefan Rinke. Cologne: Böhlau, 2004. Pp. 633.

Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story. By Paul Buhle. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. Pp. x, 272. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Index. $32.00 cloth.

Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001. By Florencia E. Mallon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 319. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.95 paper.

Political Economy/Globalization

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From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 378. Figures. Notes. Index. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. By John Soluri. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 321. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Empresas y modernización en México desde las reformas borbónicas hasta el Porfiriato. Edited by Reinhard Liehr. Frankfurt am Main: Ibero-Americano-Veruert, 2006. Pp. 180. Illustrations. Notes. Tables. Bibliographies. €24.00 paper.

Latin America After NeoLiberalism. Edited by Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen. New York: The New Press/NACLA, 2006. Pp. xi, 348. Notes. Contributors. Index. $60.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Politics/Governance

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El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808-1824. Una revisión historiográfica del liberalismo hispano. By Roberto Breña. Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2006. Pp. 580. Notes. Bibliography.

Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853. By Osvaldo Barreneche. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. x, 179. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks and Public Security. By Enrique Desmond Arias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xx, 279. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth; $22.50 paper.

Religion/Religious Practices

Book Reviews

Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. By Daniel Castro. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp xii, 233. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. By Stanley M. Hordes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 348. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $39.50 cloth

Local Religion in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Martin Austin Nesvig. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 289. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 paper

Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California. By Alison Lake. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 244. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Slavery/Diaspora Studies

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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans. By Nicole Von Germeten. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. xiv, 288. Graphs. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $55.00.

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