Books Received

Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico. By Pamela Voekel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 336 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Paper, $21.95.

Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River's Mouth. By Nigel J. H. Smith. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Index. xii, 281 pp. Cloth, $39.95.

Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya: A Guide. By Victoria Schlesinger. Translated by Carlos Galindo-Leal. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. xx, 350 pp. Cloth, $70.00. Paper, $29.95.

Bernardino de Sahagún: First Anthropologist. By Miguel León-Portilla. Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 234 pp.

Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of the Free Press in Mexico. By Chappell H. Lawson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 287 pp. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $19.95.

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. xvii, 242 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $22.00.

Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Andrew J. Kirkendall. Engendering Latin America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $29.95.

Los códigos negros de la América española. By Manuel Lucena Salmoral. Madrid: Ediciones UNESCO; Universidad de Alcalá, 2000. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. iii, 328 pp. Paper.

The Companion to Hispanic Studies. Edited by Catherine Davis. London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Maps. Plates. Index. viii, 198 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Paper, $18.95.

The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960. By Lara Putnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 303 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $19.95.

Cuban Fire: The Story of Salsa and Latin Jazz. By Isabelle Leymarie. New York: Continuum, 2002. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Discography. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. vi, 394 pp. Cloth, $29.95.

Cuban Music. By Maya Roy. Translated by Denise Asfar and Gabriel Asfar. London: Latin American Bureau; Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2002. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Discography. ix, 246. Cloth.

Cuban Studies. Edited by Lisandro Pérez. Associate Editor Uva de Aragón. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. viii, 232 pp. Cloth, $40.00.

Desafíos transatlánticos: Mercaderes, banqueros y el estado en el Perú virreinal, 1600-1700. By Margarita Suárez. Lima: Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú; Instituto Riva-Agüero; Fondo de Cultura Económica; Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 2001. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Indexes. xiii, 528 pp. Paper.

La escravitud en la América española. By Manuel Lucena Salmoral. Warsaw: CESLA, 2002. Tables. Bibliography. 408 pp. Paper.

Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. By Mary Pat Brady. Latin American Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Illustration. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 274 pp. Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $18.95.

Gabriela Mistral: Selected Prose and Prose-Poems. Edited and translated by Stephen Tapscott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Index. xi, 248 pp. Cloth, $34.95.

The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800. By Jayme A. Sokolow. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. Notes. Glossary. Index. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $64.95.

Haciendas y posesiones de la Compañía de Jesús en Venezuela: El Colegio de Caracas en el Siglo XVIII. By Jaime Torres Sánchez. Seville: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos; Universidad de Sevilla; Diputación de Sevilla, 2001. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. xxii, 341 pp. Paper.

Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America. Edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press...