Books Received - Latin American Politics & Society 46:1 Latin American Politics & Society 46.1 (2004) 185-187

Books Received


General and Regional Latin America

Bulmer-Thomas, Victor, ed. The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 505 pp.; hardcover $90, paperback $30.

Munck, Ronaldo. Contemporary Latin America. Contemporary States and Societies series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 213 pp.; hardcover $69.95, paperback $22.95.

Peloso, Vincent C., ed. Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Wilmington: SR Books, 2003. Jaguar series, no. 26. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, filmography, 368 pp.; hardcover $65, paperback $23.95.

Scheman, L. Ronald. Greater America: A New Partnership for the Americas in the 21st Century. New York: NYU Press, 2003. Notes, index, 384 pp.; hardcover $35.

Stephens, Thomas M. A Game of Mirrors: The Changing Face of Ethno-Racial Constructs and Language in the Americas. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 180 pp.; paperback $35.

Bolivia

Grindle, Merilee S., and Pilar Domingo, eds. Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge/London: David Rockefeller Institute for Latin American Studies, Harvard University/Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2003. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, acronyms, notes, bibliography, index, 440 pp.; paperback $24.95.

Klein, Herbert S. A Concise History of Bolivia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Maps, tables, chronology, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $50, paperback $20.

Brazil

Lesser, Jeffrey, ed. Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Figures, [End Page 185] tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 231 pp.; hardcover $74.95, paperback $21.95.

Sansone, Livio. Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 256 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $18.95.

The Caribbean

Gafar, John. Guyana: From State Control to Free Markets. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2003. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 394 pp.; hardcover $59.

Chile

Garretón, Manuel Antonio. Incomplete Democracy: Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America. Translated by R. Kelly Washbourne with Gregory Horvath. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Notes, index, 221 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $24.95.

Weeks, Gregory. The Military and Politics in Postauthoritarian Chile. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. Table, notes, bibliography, index, 217 pp.; hardcover $47.50, paperback $22.95.

Cuba

De Miranda Parrondo, Mauricio, ed. Cuba: Reestructuración económica y globalización. Bogotá: Centro Editorial Javeriano, 2003. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, 373 pp.; paperback.

De Miranda Parrondo, Mauricio, ed. Cuba: Sociedad, cultura y política en tiempos de globalización. Bogotá: Centro Editorial Javeriano, 2003. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, 203 pp.; paperback.

Hernández, Rafael. Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society. Translated by Dick Cluster. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. [Originally published in Spanish as Mirar a Cuba: ensayos sobre cultura y sociedad civil, 1999.] Photographs, notes, 164 pp.; hardcover $24.95.

La Rosa Corzo, Gabino. Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression. Translated by Mary Todd. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 [1988]. Photographs, maps, figures, tables, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $22.50. [End Page 186]

Mexico

Haber, Stephen, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer. The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 405 pp.; hardcover $75.

Miscellaneous

Castro, Fidel. Cold War: Warnings for a Unipolar World. [Interview.] Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Books, 2003. 96 pp.; paperback $9.95.

Castro, Fidel. On Imperialist Globalization: Two Speeches. London: Zed Books, 2003. 166 pp.; hardcover $45, paperback $15.

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase, and Steven Topik, eds. The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Maps, figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 504 pp.; hardcover $80.

Guevara, Ernesto Che. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. Expanded edition. Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Books, 2003 (1993). Photographs, map, chronology, 190 pp.; paperback $14.95.

Hodges, Donald C. Deep Republicanism: Prelude to Professionalism. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. Notes, bibliography, index, 241 pp.; hardcover $70.

Magaña, Lisa. Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Figures, tables, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 168 pp.; hardcover $37.50, paperback $16.95.

Parel, Anthony J., and Ronald C. Keith, eds. Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies Under the Upas Tree. Reprint edition. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003 (Sage 1992). Notes, index, 312 pp.; paperback $26.95.

Rusmich, Ladislav, and Stephen M. Sachs. Lessons from the Failure of the Communist Economic System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. Notes, bibliography, index, 388 pp.; hardcover $75.

Scott, Peter Dale. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 248 pp.; hardcover $75, paperback $22.95.





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