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Specters of Colonialism: Building Postcolonial States and Making Modern Nations in the Americas

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COCHABAMBA, 1550–1900: COLONIALISM AND AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION IN BOLIVIA. Expanded edition. By LarsonBrooke. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. 422. $64.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

THE EMERGENCE OF LATIN AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By BushnellDavid and MacaulayNeill. Second edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 341. $32.50 cloth, $11.95 paper.)

LIBERALS, THE CHURCH, AND INDIAN PEASANTS: CORPORATE LANDS AND THE CHALLENGE OF REFORM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH AMERICA. Edited by JacksonRobert H. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Pp. 228. $47.50 cloth.)

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Mark T. Berger*
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The University of New South Wales
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