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Volume 55 - January 1999

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Entre la ideología y la compasión: guerra y paz en Cuba. By Manuel P. Maza Miquel, S.J. (Santo Domingo: Instituto Pedro Francisco Bonó, 1997. Pp. 559. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.00.)

Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By Jay Kinsbruner. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 176. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $44.95.)

Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua. By Debra Sabia. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. 239. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.)

Historical Dictionary of Venezuela. Second Edition, Revised, Enlarged, and Updated. Latin American Historical Dictionaries No. 3. Donna Keyse Rudolph and G.A. Rudolph, eds. (Lanham, Md. and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996. Pp. 986. Bibliography. $110.00.)

Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade. Elizabeth Joyce and Carlos Malamud, eds. (London: Macmillan Press, 1998. Pp. 243.)

From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nation making in Andean Peru. By Mark Thurner. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 203. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $49.95.)

Peronism Without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. By James McGuire. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 388. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.)

The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. By Lawrence S. Grossman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. 258. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation. By Deborah Norden. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. 242. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry. By Mark Moberg. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Pp. 218. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $38.00.)

Colombia: The Politics of Reforming the State. By Eduardo Posada-Carbó. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 286. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00.)

Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935. By David Nugent. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 403. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.)

State Under Siege: Development and Policy Making in Peru. By Philip Mauceri. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Pp 176. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $52.00.)

The State and Capital in Chile, Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics. By Eduardo Silva. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00.)

Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America. Richard Tardanico and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. Pp. 295. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. $24.95.)

Saberes andinos: Ciencia y technología en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú. Marcos Cueto, ed. (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1995. Pp. 213. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. No Price.)

The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization. By Alison Brysk. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. 291. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

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Der Partido Civil in Peru, 1871-1879. By Ulrich Mücke. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 384. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Notes. Index. No Price.)

Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. By Rosalie Schwartz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. 239. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

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