Books Received

In the Absence of Don Porfirio: Francisco León de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution. By Peter V.N. Henderson. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 338 pp. Cloth, $55.00.

Argentinien im Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Probleme der Wirtschaftspolitik und der Übergang zur Ära Perón. By Gisela Cramer. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Map. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. x, 395 pp. Paper.

From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border. By Lawrence A. Herzog. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 241 pp. Cloth, $39.95.

Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership. By Kenneth D. Lehman. The United States and the Americas. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Maps. Notes. Index. xviii, 296 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $20.00.

La ciudad imaginada: el casco viejo de Panamá. By Alfredo Castillero Calvo. Panama City: Ministerio de la Presidencia, 1999. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 300 pp.

Cocaine: Global Histories. Edited by Paul Gootenberg. Foreword by Ethan Nadelmann. New York: Routledge, 1999. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $25.99.

Colombia: Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier. By Jane M. Rausch. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. lllustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 285 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911. By Robin L. Anderson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla. By Sonya Lipsett-rivera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 199 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution. By Rachel M. Mccleary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Photographs. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 297 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Empire of Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803. Compiled and edited by Thomas E. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 493 pp. Cloth, $65.00.

Los espacios públicos en Iberoamérica: ambigüedades y problemas, siglos XVIII-XIX. By François-xavier Guerra Et Al. Mexico City: Centro de Francés de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, 1998. Tables. Figures. 366 pp.

'Licentious Liberty' in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabará, Minas Gerais. By Kathleen J. Higgins. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xii, 236 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $22.50.

Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics, and Corruption. By Stephen R. Niblo. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Bibliography. Index. xxv, 408 pp. Cloth, $55.00.

Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order. By Leonard Folgarait. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 256 pp. Cloth, $79.95.

The Myth of Quetzalcoatl. By Enrique Florescano. Translated by LYSA HOCHROTH. Illustrated by Raul Velazquez. Plates. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 287 pp. Cloth, $45.00.

Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas. By Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 359 pp. Cloth, $40.00. Paper, $17.95.

Pueblos de indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750-1821. By Dorothy Tanck De Estrada. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, 1999. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. 665 pp. Paper.

Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880. By Deena J. Gonzalez. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 186 pp. Cloth, $45.00.

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. By David Eltis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index...