Books Received for Review

BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW Thefollowingbooks are currently availablefor review in TheLatin Arnericanist, as of November 2, 2007. If you would like to review one of the books listed here, contact: Bruce Dean Willis Book Review Editor, TLA University of Tulsa bruce-dean-willis@utlsa.edu Alfaro-Velcamp, Theresa. 2007. So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. U Texas P. Alonso, Nancy. 2007. Closed for Repairs: stories. Trans. Anne Fountain. Curbstone. Altbach,PhilipG. et al, eds. 2007.World Class Worldwide:TransformingResearch Universitiesin Asia and Latin America. JohnsHopkins UP. Ayala, C&ar J., et al. Puerto Rico in the American Centuy:A Histoy Since 1898. U North Carolina P. Azuela, Mariano.2006. The Underdogs and Related Texts.Trans.GustavoPellon. Hackett. Barr, Juliana. 2007. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman:Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. UNC Press. Betances, Emelio. 2007. The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield. Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. 2007.Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. Duke UP. Brown, R. McKenna et al. 2006 i L a utz awach? Introduction to Kaqchickel Maya Language. U Texas P. Buchenau, Jurgen. 2007. Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution. Rowman, Littlefield. Cameron, Bruce P. 2007. M y Life in the Time of the Contras.U New Mexico P. Carman, Glen. 2006. Rhetorical Conquests: Cortis, Gomara, and Renaissance Imperialism. Purdue UP. Castro, Daniel. 2007. Another Face of Empire: Bartolomi de las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism. Duke UP. Cook, Noble David. 2007. Peopleof the Volcano:Andean Counterpointin the Colca Valleyof Per@.Duke UP. The Latin Americanist,Fall 2007 de Leon, Arnold0 and Richard Griswold del Castillo. 2006. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States. 2"d.Ed. Harlan Davidson Dore, Elizabeth. 2006. Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. Duke UP. Eakin, Marshall C. 2007. The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures. Palgrave. Fatton, Robert, Jr. 2007. The Roots of Haitian Despotism.Lynne Reinner. Fowler, Will, et al, eds. 2007. Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America. Palgrave. Francois, Marie Ellen. 2006. A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 2750, 1920.U Nebraska P. Franko, Patrice. 2007. The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development. Yd. ed. Rowman and Littlefield. Frazier, LeslieJ0.2007. Salt in the Sand:Memory, Violence,and the Nation-State in Chile, 2890 to the Present. Duke UP. Friedlander, Judith. 2006. Being Indian in Hueyapan. (revised and updated). Palgrave. Gonzales-Day, Ken. 2006. Lynching in the West 2850-1935.Duke UP. Gonzalez, Ondina et al, eds. 2007. Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America. U New Mexico P. Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe. 2006. The First New Chronicle and Good Government (abridged).Trans. David Frye. Hackett. Gutierrez y Muhs, Gabriella. 2007. Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile. Rowman & Littlefield. Henck, Nick. 2007. Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. Duke UP. Laird, Andrew. 2006. The Epic of America:A n Introduction to Rafael Landivar and the Rusticatio Mexicana. Duckworth. Leonard, Thomas M. and JohnF. Bratzel, eds. 2007.LatinAmerica During World War11. Rowan & Littlefield. Lesser, Jeffrey. 2007. A Discontented Diaspora: Iapanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 2960-2980.Duke UP. MacPherson, Anne S. 2007. From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 2912-2982.U Nebraska P. Books Received for Reveiw Mannarelli,Maria Emma.2007.Private Passions and Public Sins:Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima, Trans. Evans and Dodge. U New Mexico P. Matsuoka, Hideaki. 2007. Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity. Rowman and Littlefield. McEwan, Colin et al. 2006. Turquoise Mosaicsfrom Mexico. Duke UP. McNamara, Patrick.2007.Sons of the Sierra:Juarez, Diaz, and the Peopleof Iztlan, Oaxaca, 1855-1920. UNC Press. Mirabal, Nancy R. et al. 2007. Technofuturos:Critical Interventions in Latindo Studies. Rowman & Littlefield. Mitchell, Stephanie, et al, eds. 2007. The Women’s Revolution in Mexico, 19101953 . Rowman, Littlefield. Mulcahy, Matthew. 2006.Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.JohnsHopkins. Nations, James D. 2006. The Maya Tropical...