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Volume 29 - Issue 2 - May 1997

Book Review

Georges Baudot, Utopia and History in Mexico: The First Chronicles of Mexican Civilization, 1520–1569 (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1995), pp. xix + 566, $49.95.

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), pp. xxxiii + 285, £34.50.

Marco Palacios, Entre la legitimidad y la violencia: Colombia 1875–1994 (Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 1995), pp. 386.

Tamar Herzog, La administración como un fenómeno social: La justicia penal de la ciudad de Quito (1650–1750) (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1995), pp. 352.

Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), pp. xx + 287, £36.95, £15.95 pb.

James William Park, Latin American Underdevelopment: A History of Perspectives in the United States, 1877–1965 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), pp. xii + 274, £35.00.

William E. French, A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), pp. ix + 262, $40.00.

Eduardo Posada-Carbó (ed.), Wars, Parties and Nationalism: Essays on the Politics and Society of Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1995), pp. iv + 107, £10.00 pb.

Carlos Marichal (ed.), Las inversiones extranjeras en América Latina, 1850–1930: nuevos debates y problemas en historia económica comparada (Mexico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica/Colegio de México, 1995), pp. 297.

Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hirschberg (eds.), Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1996) pp. x + 238.

Nader Nazmi, Economic Policy and Stabilization in Latin America (Armond, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. viii + 207, £44.50, £19.95 pb.

Tom Farer (ed.), Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas (Baltimore, MD, and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. xii + 416, £32.00 hb, £16.50 pb.

Gordon Mace and Jean-Philippe Thérien (eds.), Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the Americas (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, Publishers 1996), pp. ix + 253, $40.00, $19.95.

Weine Karlsson and Akhil Malaki (eds.), Growth, Trade and Integration in Latin America, 48th International Congress of Americanists, Stockholm/Uppsala, 1994 (Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden), pp. ii + 329, $40.00 pb.

Judith Ewell, Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1996), pp. x + 266, $50.00, $20.00 pb.

Stefan Rinke, ‘Der letzte freie Kontinent’: Deutsche Lateinamerikapolitik im Zeichen transnationaler Beziehungen, 1918–1933 (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1996), vols. 1 and 2, pp. 836.

Eduardo Posada-Carbó, The Colombian Caribbean: A Regional History 1870–1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. xi + 300, £40.00.

Robert H. Holden, Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876–1911 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994), pp. xvi + 235, $30.00

Nora Lustig (ed.), Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995), pp. xvi + 460, $39.95, $18.95 pb.

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