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Volume 54 - Issue 3 - January 1998

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Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers: The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-Century Peru. By Rafael Varón Gabai and trans. by Javier Flores Espinoza. (Norman: Universitiy of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. 352. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.)

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 406. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.)

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. By Jeffery M. Paige. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 322. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Index. $45.00.)

Interpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972. By Dario A. Euraque. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 242. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856. Elborg Forster, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. 322. Index. $55.00.)

Roots of Identity: Language and Literacy in Mexico. Linda King. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. 193. Illustration. Notes. $37.50.)

Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. By Paul Austerlitz. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. 195. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography. By Kent Worcester. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. 311. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Appendices. $19.95.)

Cuban Studies 26. Jorge I. Dominguez, ed. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. 320. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $39.95.)

Passion of the People?: Football in South America. By Tony Mason. (New York: Verso, 1995. Pp. 283. Illustrations. Notes. Index. No Price.)

Radical Evil on Trial. By Carlos Nino. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. 232. Notes. Index. No Price.)

Eroding Military Influence in Brazil: Politicians Against Soldiers. By Wendy Hunter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 259. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No Price.

Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico. By Kathleen Bruhn. (University Park: Penn State Press, 1997. Pp. 380. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Biography. Index. $55.00.)

Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America. Edward L. Cleary and Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino, eds. (Scranton, PA: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. Pp. 270. Illustrations. Notes. Index. No Price.)

La hacienda pública y la política económica 1929-1958. By Enrique Cárdenas. (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, Fideicomiso historia de las Américas, Fondo de cultura económica, 1994. Pp. 230. Illustrations. Bibliography. No Price.)

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