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Latin American Politics & Society 46.3 (2004) 155-157



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Books Received

General and Regional Latin America

Burt, Jo-Marie, and Philip Mauceri. Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Map, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $24.95.

Davis, Diane E. Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 435 pp.; hardcover $80, paperback $29.

Gibson, Edward L., ed. Federalism and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 389 pp.; hardcover $49.95, paperback $18.95.

Hite, Katherine, and Paola Cesarini, eds. Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 360 pp.; hardcover $60, paperback $30.

King, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Photographs, maps, tables, chronology, notes, index, 382 pp.; hardcover $65, paperback $23.

Kurtz, Marcus J. Free Market Democarcy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, 265 pp.; hardcover $70.

Montero, Alfred P., and David J. Samuels, eds. Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 320 pp.; hardcover $47.50, paperback $27.50.

Vellinga, Menno, ed. The Political Economy of the Drug Industry: Latin America and the International System. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Figure, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 360 pp.; hardcover $65.

The Caribbean

Richardson, Bonham C. Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [End Page 155] 2004. Photographs, map, notes, bibliography, index, 251 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $19.95.

Chile

Davis, Madeleine, ed. The Pinochet Case: Origins, Progress and Implications. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, 278 pp.; paperback $19.95.

Rector, John L. The History of Chile. Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. Westport: Greenwood, 2003. Map, abbreviations, timeline, list of notable people, glossary, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $45.

Cuba

Chomsky, Aviva, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds. The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, map, bibliography, index, 736 pp.; hardcover $99.95, paperback $26.95.

Ritter, Archibald R. M. The Cuban Economy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 264 pp.; hardcover $49.95.

Roman, Peter. People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government. 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. Photographs, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $75, paperback $34.95.

Wedel, Johan. Santería Healing: A Journey into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits, and Sorcery. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Photographs, figures, tables, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 220 pp.; hardcover $55.

El Salvador

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo, and Leigh Binford, eds. Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Map, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $54.95, paperback $22.95.

Mexico

Rubio, Luis, and Susan Kaufman Purcell, eds. Mexico Under Fox. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 178 pp.; hardcover $38.50, paperback $16.95. [End Page 156]

Uruguay

Varela Petito, Gonzalo. El movimiento estudiantil de 1968: el IAVA, una recapitulación personal. Montivideo: Ediciones Trilce, 2002. Appendix, notes, 160 pp.; paperback.

Miscellaneous

Nevaer, Louis E. V. The Rise of the Hispanic Market in the United States: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities for Corporate Management. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Figures, notes, index, 264 pp.; hardcover $66.95, paperback $25.95.

Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo. Cortijo's Wake [El entierro de Cortijo]. Bilingual edition. Translated by Juan Flores. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004 [1983]. Photographs, illustrations, 154 pp.; paperback $16.95.

Roy, Ananaya, and Nezar Alisayyad, eds. Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 352 pp.; hardcover $75, paperback $25...

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