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  1. From the Editor
  2. Gregory Weeks
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  1. Contributors
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Articles

  1. German Immigrants in Blumenau, Brazil: National Identity in Gertrud Gross-Hering’s Novels
  2. Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau
  3. pp. 5-21
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706007
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  1. Noisy Regimes, Causal Processes, and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Costa Rica
  2. Kirk Bowman, Scott Baker
  3. pp. 23-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706008
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  1. Bridging The Convergence-Divergence Policy Diffusion Divide, Mid-Range Theorizing, and Devolving Food Aid in Mexico and The Dominican Republic
  2. Ken Mitchell
  3. pp. 59-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706009
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  1. Malestares en la “Suiza centroamericana”. Interpretaciones de la identidad nacional en el ensayo costarricense
  2. Amán Rosales Rodríguez
  3. pp. 83-102
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706010
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Book Reviews

  1. Spilling The Beans in Chicanolandia by Frederick Luis Aldama (review)
  2. Liliana Wendorff
  3. pp. 103-104
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  1. Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires 1785–1853 by Osvaldo Barreneche (review)
  2. Guillermina S. Seri
  3. pp. 104-106
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  1. Mexico: A Brief History by Alicia Hernández Chávez (review)
  2. Alberto E. Nickerson
  3. pp. 106-108
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  1. Corruption in Cuba. Castro and Beyond by Sergio Díaz-Diquets, Jorge Pérez-López (review)
  2. Mervyn J. Bain
  3. pp. 109-110
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  1. Tiburcio Carías: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader by Thomas J. Dodd (review)
  2. Michael R. Hall
  3. pp. 111-112
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  1. Cuba Libre: A Brief History of Cuba by Paul J. Dosal (review)
  2. Robert Lesman
  3. pp. 112-114
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  1. Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy ed. by Edward Epstein, David Pion-Berlin (review)
  2. Kurt Weyland
  3. pp. 114-116
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  1. Cuba and the Tempest. Literature and Cinema in The Time of Diaspora by Eduardo González (review)
  2. Adriana Tápanes-Inojosa
  3. pp. 116-118
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  1. Miradas/Gazes by Miriam González-Hernández (review)
  2. Esperanza Malavé Cintrón
  3. pp. 118-120
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  1. The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850 by Peter Guardino (review)
  2. Andrew Grant Wood
  3. pp. 120-122
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  1. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya by Stephen Houston, David Stuart, Karl Taube (review)
  2. Bruce Dean Willis
  3. pp. 122-124
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  1. Wars Within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848 by Irving W. Levinson (review)
  2. Benjamin L. Hyman
  3. pp. 124-126
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  1. Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America: Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants by Paul H. Lewis (review)
  2. David M. Carletta
  3. pp. 126-129
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  1. Versos Sencillos: A Dual-Language Edition by José Martí (review)
  2. Maria T. Redmon
  3. pp. 129-130
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  1. Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez (review)
  2. Nathan Clarke
  3. pp. 130-132
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  1. Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875–2002 by Marco Palacios (review)
  2. Debora Cordeiro-Rosa
  3. pp. 132-134
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  1. Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective by Peter H. Smith (review)
  2. Jairo Acuña-Alfaro
  3. pp. 135-137
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  1. U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua by Mauricio Solaún (review)
  2. Thomas M. Leonard
  3. pp. 137-138
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  1. Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca by Lynn Stephen (review)
  2. Angela N. Castañeda
  3. pp. 138-140
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  1. El pesimismo en tres novelas dominicanas de la posguerra: De abril en adelante, Currículum (El síndrome de la visa) y La otra Penélope by Rita Tejada (review)
  2. José Manuel Batista
  3. pp. 140-142
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  1. The Eagle and the Virgin. Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940 ed. by Mary Kay Vaughan, Stephen E. Lewis (review)
  2. R. Hernández Rodríguez
  3. pp. 142-144
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  1. Camacho c’est moi: Parodia social y géneros literarios en La tía Julia y el escribidor by Liliana Tiffert Wendorff (review)
  2. Manuel Prendes
  3. pp. 144-145
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  1. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba: Isolation or Engagement? ed. by Michele Zebich-Knos, Heather N. Nicol (review)
  2. José de Arimatéia da Cruz
  3. pp. 146-148
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  1. Books Received For Review
  3. pp. 149-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706034
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  1. Minutes of The Secolas Executive Council Meeting
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  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706035
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  1. Supplement For Executive Meeting
  3. p. 156
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.0030
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