The Americas
Volume 66, Number 1, July 2009
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2009 CLAH Luncheon Address: Recuerdos/Remembrances
pp. 1-10
“Born Under the Cruel Rigor of Captivity, the Supplicant Left it Unexpectedly by Committing a Crime”: Categorizing and Punishing Slave Convicts in Brazil, 1830–1897
pp. 11-55
Sickness, Recovery, and Death Among the Enslaved and Free People of Santos, Brazil, 1860–1888
pp. 57-80
The Political Sociology of a Concept: Corporatism and the “Distinct Tradition”
pp. 81-106
Book Reviews
Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (review)
pp. 107-109
Cultural and Literary Studies
The Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain (review)
pp. 110-111
Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (review)
pp. 111-112
Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World (review)
pp. 113-114
Let’s Makes Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music (review)
pp. 114-115
Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Alvarez Bravo (review)
pp. 115-117
Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (review)
pp. 117-118
Ethnohistory and Indigenous Politics
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus (review)
pp. 119-121
Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, a Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala (review)
pp. 121-122
Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico (review)
pp. 122-123
Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (review)
pp. 124-125
Family and Gender Studies
For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz (review)
pp. 125-126
Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (review)
pp. 126-128
Mass Media and Communication
Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America (review)
pp. 128-129
The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity (review)
pp. 129-131
Nation Building and Nationalism
The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century (review)
pp. 131-132
Gabriel García Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes (review)
pp. 132-134
Political Economy and Globalization
Politics and Governance
Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present (review)
pp. 136-137
Rural Social History
The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepard, and the People of the Canyons (review)
pp. 138-139
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory (review)
pp. 139-141
To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920–1932 (review)
pp. 141-142
Slavery and Diaspora Studies
Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (review)
pp. 143-144
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795–1831 (review)
pp. 144-145
U.S. and International Relations
Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America (review)
pp. 145-147
The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (review)
pp. 147-148
U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War (review)
pp. 148-150
Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (review)
pp. 150-151
Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (review)
pp. 152-153