Books Received

General and Regional Latin America

Cleary, Edward L., and Timothy J. Steigenga, eds. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Notes, bibliography, index, 304 pp.; paperback $24.95.

Del Sarto, Ana, Alicia Ríos, and Abril Trigo, eds. The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 832 pp.; hardcover $99.95, paperback $32.95.

Easterly, William, and Luis Servén, eds. The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America. Latin American Development Forum series. Stanford: Stanford University Press/World Bank, 2003. Figures, tables, acronyms, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 225 pp.; paperback $30.

Ocampo, José Antonio, and Juan Martin, ECLAC, eds. Globalization and Development: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective. Latin American Development Forum series. Stanford: Stanford University Press/World Bank, 2003. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 230 pp.; paperback $25.

O'Donnell, Guillermo, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, eds. The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 288 pp.; hardcover $55, paperback $25.

Phipps, Elena, Johanna Hecht, and Cristina Esteras Martín. The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 412 pp.; hardcover $75.

Shayne, Julie D., The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Acronyms, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 240 pp.; paperback $23.95.

Valdés, Mario J., and Djelal Kadir, eds. Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. 3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Vol. 1, Configurations of Literary Culture, 667 pp. Vol. 2, Institutional Modes and Cultural Modalities, 706 pp. Vol. 3, Latin American Literary Culture: Subject to History, 753 pp.; hardcover (set) $395.

Wiarda, Howard J., ed. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America--Revisited. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 320 pp.; hardcover $65.

Argentina

Chavez, Rebecca Bill. The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies: Judicial Politics in Argentina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Map, figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; hardcover $50.

Brazil

Arons, Nicholas Gabriel. Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, 230 pp.; hardcover $36.95, paperback $17.95.

Font, Mauricio A., and Anthony Peter Spanakos, eds., with Cristina Bordin. Reforming Brazil. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. Figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 280 pp.; hardcover $80, paperback $27.95.

Chile

Stern, Steve J. Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile: A Trilogy, vol. 1. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs, maps, abbreviations, notes, bibliographic essay, index, 280 pp.; hardcover $29.95.

Costa Rica

Palmer, Steven, and Iván Molina, eds. The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, map, tables, bibliography, index, 400 pp.; paperback $22.95.

Guatemala

Wilkinson, Daniel. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Photographs, map, notes, bibliography, index, 384 pp.; paperback $19.95.

Mexico

Crandall, Russell, Guadalupe Paz, and Riordan Roett, eds. Mexico's Democracy at Work: Political and Economic Dynamics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2005. Figures, tables, acronyms, notes, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $49.95, paperback $19.95.

Shirk, David A. Mexico's New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. Photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 294 pp.; hardcover $53, paperback $22.

Peru

Muecke, Ulrich: Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: The Rise of the Partido Civil [Der Partido Civil in Peru, 1871-1879: Zur Geschichte politischer Parteien und Repräsentation in Lateinamerica, 1998]. Translated by Katya Andrusz. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Figures, tables...