Books Received

Afogados em leis: A CLT e a cultura política dos trabalhadores brasileiros. By JOHN D. FRENCH. Translated by PAULO FONTES. Coleção História do Povo Brasileiro. São Paulo: Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2001. Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. 127 pp. Paper.

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Edited by ISIDORE OKPEWHO, CAROLE BOYCE DAVIES, and ALI A. MAZRUI. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xxviii, 566 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $22.95.

Afro-Cuban Religions. By MIGUEL BARNET. Translated from Spanish by CHRISTINE RENATA AYORINDE. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. viii, 160 pp. Cloth, $36.95. Paper, $16.95.

American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. By PATRICIA SEED. Public Worlds, vol. 7. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Index. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $29.95.

American Towns: An Interpretive History. By DAVID J. RUSSO. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 368 pp. Cloth, $28.95.

Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825. By KENNETH J. ANDRIEN. Diálogos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Index. xiii,
290 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $21.95.

Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.
By IVAN JAKSI´C. Cambridge Latin American Studies, 87. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. xxiv, 254 pp. Cloth, $54.95.

Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination. By ILAN STAVANS. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 2001. Index. ix, 253 pp. Paper, $18.95.

The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis. By FRANCINE MASIELLO. Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii,
334 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Paper, $21.95.

Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930. By GAIL D. TRINER. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Map. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 333 pp. Cloth, $59.95.

Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico.
By BEN VINSON III. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 304 pp. Cloth, $60.00.

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America. Edited by ROBIN LAW and PAUL E. LOVEJOY. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 272 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $19.95.

Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County. By J. GILBERTO QUEZADA. The Canseco-Keck History Series, no. 1. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 291 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $17.95.

Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. By LISA SANCHEZ GONZALEZ. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Bibliography. Index. viii, 216 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Paper, $18.50.

Café, sociedad y relaciones de poder en América Latina. Edited by MARIO SAMPER K., WILLIAM ROSEBERRY, and LOWELL GUDMUNDSON. Heredia, Costa Rica: EUNA, 2001. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. 511 pp. Paper.

Call Me Magdalena. By ALICIA STEIMBERG. Translated by ANDREA G. LABINGER. Latin American Women Writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xi, 137 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Paper, $16.95.

Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán.
By BEN FALLAW. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 222 pp. Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $18.95.

Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico. By LINDA EGAN. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvi,
276 pp. Cloth, $45.00.

City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931. By PABLO PICCATO. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Photographs. Map. Tables. Figure. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 365 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Paper, $21.95.

The Collective and the Public in Latin America: Cultural Identities and Political Order. Edited by LUIS RONIGER and TAMAR HERZOG. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2000. Tables. Figures...