Books Received

The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal, 1654–1810. By l. m. e. shaw. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 233 pp. Cloth, $76.95.

The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America. By j. samuel fitch. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Index. xx, 264 pp. Cloth, $48.00. Paper, $16.95.

Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War. Edited by george mariscal. American Crossroads, no. 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. xiv, 324 pp. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $18.95.

Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad. By peter mason. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 191 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $19.95.

Brazil: Five Centuries of Change. By thomas e. skidmore. Latin American Histories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $30.00.

Campanha Gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850–1920. By stephen bell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 292 pp. Cloth, $55.00

Las carnes patagónicas y fueguinas en el marco de la economía nacional y en relación al contexto de la economía mundial, 1930–1957. By carlos maría gorla. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dunken, 1998. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 579 pp. Paper.

The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America. By thomas o’brien. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 199 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $19.95.

Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century. Edited by david montejano. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Tables. Figure. Notes. Index. xxvi, 267 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $15.95.

Culture and Customs of Argentina. By david william foster, melissa fitch lockhart, and darrell b. lockhart. Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Photographs. Bibliographies. Index. xx, 173 pp. Cloth, $45.00.

Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. By kenneth m. roberts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Tables. Figures. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $19.95.

Diversidad partidaria y dictaduras: Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay. Edited by silvia dutrénit. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 1996. Tables. Notes. 315 pp. Paper.

Ein Weg zur Sozialreform in Lateinamerika: die Rezeption der katholischen Soziallehre Europas in Chile, 1880–1920. By patricio valdivieso. Histoamericana 7. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz; Akademischer Verlag, 1998. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 451 pp. Cloth.

Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis. By eric r. wolf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $16.95.

For la Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America. By brian loveman. Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 331 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $23.95.

La grilla y el parque: espacio público y cultura urbana en Buenos Aires, 1887–1936. By adrián gorelik. Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 1998. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. 455 pp. Paper.

A Guide to Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino-Made Film and Video. Edited by karen ranucci and julie feldman. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. Bibliography. Indexes. xii, 361 pp. Cloth, $74.50.

Historia de la vida privada en la Argentina. By ricardo cicerchia. Buenos Aires: Editorial Troquel, 1998. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. 281 pp. Paper.

Historia de los ferrocariles de Iberoamérica, 1837–1995. Edited by jesús sanz fernández. Madrid: Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas (CEDEX), 1998. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographies. 456 pp. Paper.

The History of Spain. By peter pierson. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Maps. Bibliography. Index. xx, 223 pp. Cloth, $35.00.

History of the Inca Realm. By maría rostworowski de diez canseco. Translated by harry b. iceland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. x, 259 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $14.95.

Huellas de las transiciones políticas: partidos y elecciones en América Latina. Edited by silvia dutrénit bielous. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 1998. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. 280 pp. Paper.

Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771–1876. By eric wertheimer. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 243 pp. Cloth, $59.95.

Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas. Edited by susanne jonas and suzie dod thomas. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Tables. Figures. Notes. xvi, 206 pp. Paper, $17.95.

The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s. By daniela spenser. Foreword by friedrich katz. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $17.95.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. By rosemarijn hoefte. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Photographs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala. By kay b. warren. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Table. Figure. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 288 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $16.95.

José Martí’s “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies. Edited by jeffrey belnap and raúl fernández. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Notes. Index. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $17.95.

Latin America and the World Economy since 1800. Edited by john h. coatsworth and alan m. taylor. The David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 484 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $24.95.

Liberdade: rotinas e rupturas do escravismo no Recife, 1822–1850. By marcus j. m. de carvalho. Recife: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 1998. Table. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. xiv, 353 pp. Paper.

The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest. Edited by dennis reinhartz and gerald d. saxon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 227 pp. Cloth, $37.50.

El maremoto militar y el archipiélago partidario: testimonios para la historia reciente de los partidos políticos uruguayos. By silvia dutrénit bielous. Prologue by gerardo caetano. Montevideo: Productora Editorial, 1994. Notes. 326 pp. Paper.

De Martí a Fidel: a Revolução Cubana e a América Latina. By luiz alberto moniz bandeira. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1998. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 687 pp. Paper.

Más se perdió en Cuba: España, 1898 y la crisis de fin de siglo. Edited by juan pan-montojo. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1998. Plates. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 528 pp. Paper.

The Maya. 6th ed. By michael d. coe. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Table. Bibliography. Index. 256 pp. Paper, $18.95.

Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821–1853. By will fowler. Contributions in Latin American Studies, no. 12. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 328 pp. Cloth, $69.50.

Mexico’s Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History. By james d. cockcroft. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. viii, 435 pp. Cloth, $48.00. Paper, $18.00.

Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature. By cathy l. jrade. Texas Pan American Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 193 pp. Cloth, $30.00. Paper, $15.95.

The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. By stephen c. rabe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 257 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $17.95.

The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil. By hermano vianna. Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen. Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Notes. Index. xx, 147 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Paper, $15.95.

Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Edited by valerie j. matsumoto and blake allmendinger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. xii, 399 pp. Cloth, $48.00. Paper, $19.95.

Les passions politiques au Chili durant l’Unité Populaire, 1970–1973: essai d’analyse socio-historique. By ingrid seguel-boccara. Preface by pierre ansart. Recherches et Documents Amériques Latines. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1997. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Indexes. 448 pp. Paper.

People and Issues in Latin American History: From Independence to the Present: Sources and Interpretations. 2d ed. Edited by lewis hanke and jane m. rausch. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999. Photograph. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. x, 367 pp. Paper, $22.95.

Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle. By lawrence a. clayton. The United States and the Americas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 363 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $20.00.

Política, médicos y enfermedades: lecturas de historia de la salud en la Argentina. Edited by mirta zaida lobato. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos; Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, 1996. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. 246 pp. Paper.

Por la continuidad democrática del Perú y los peruanos. By carlos a. johnson. New York: Ediciones ¡Español, Ya!, 1999. Notes. Index. 112 pp. Paper.

O Recife: gênese do urbanismo, 1927–1943. By joel outtes. Recife: Editora Massangana; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, 1997. Photographs. Illustrations. Table. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. 250 pp. Paper.

I religiosi a corte: teologia, politica e diplomacia in antico regime. Edited by flavio rurale. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1998. Notes. Index. 353 pp. Paper.

The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. By cliff welch. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 412 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Paper, $25.00.

The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. By gustavo gorriti. Translation and Introduction by robin kirk. Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Notes. Glossary. Index. xxviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $24.95.

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography. Vol. 1: 1900–1991. Vol. 2: 1992–1996. Edited by joseph c. miller. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. Vol. 1: Notes. Indexes. xix, 584 pp. Cloth, $110.00. Vol. 2: Notes. Indexes. xxi, 244 pp. Cloth, $85.00.

Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory, 1513–1830. By anthony pagden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 184 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $18.00.

Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb. By daniel míguez. CEDLA Latin America Studies Series, no. 81. Amsterdam: Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericanos, 1998. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 204 pp. Paper, $25.00.

State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986–1994. By harvey f. kline. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 240 pp. Cloth, $35.95.

Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico. Edited by wayne a. cornelius, todd a. eisenstadt, and jane hindley. U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, no. 13. La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1999. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. xviii, 369 pp. Paper.

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Edited by robert m. levine and josé carlos sebe bom meihy. Translated by nancy p.s. naro and cristina mehrtens. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. xiv, 231 pp. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $20.00.

Velásquez: The Technique of Genius. By jonathan brown and carmen garrido. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Illustrations. Bibliography. 215 pp. Cloth, $50.00.

Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile. By jane blocker. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $17.95.

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. By neil foley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Plates. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 326 pp. Cloth, $29.95.

Women in Caribbean History: The British-Colonised Territories. Edited by verene a. shepherd. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Index. xx, 95 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $16.95.

Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World. Edited by mary e. giles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 402 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Paper, $19.95.

The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500–1600. jonathan brown et al. Foreword by anne hawley. Fenway Court, vol. 28. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. 126 pp. Paper, $24.95.

The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. By betsy hunter bradley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 347 pp. Cloth, $45.00.