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Books Received For Review 125 BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW The following books have been received and are available for review. If you wish to review a book listed here, please send an email to the book review editor of TLA, Kerstin Hamann, at tla@mail.ucf.edu. Book reviews should be completed within one month of receivingthe book. Review instructions will accompany the requested book. Arrnus, Diego, ed. 2003. Disease in the History o f Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Beato, Paulina and Jean-Jacques Laffont, ed. 2003. Competition Policy in Regulated Industries: Approaches for Emerging Economies. Inter-American Development Bank: Washington, DC. Blake, Charles H. 2005. Politics in Latin America. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston. Brannstrom, Christian Ed. 2004. Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Institute for the Study of the Americas: London. Calabrese, Elisa and Lucian0 Martinez. 2001. Miguel Briante: Genealogia de un olvido. Beatriz Viterbo Editora: Rosario, Argentina. Carey, Jr., David. 2001. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa and London. Corbett, Ben. 2004. This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives. Westview Press. 126 The Latin Americanist Fall 2004 Curcio-Nagy, Linda. 2004. The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City, Peg5orming Power and Identity. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque. Davila, Jerry. 2003. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, I917-1945.Duke University Press: Durham and London. Diacon, Todd A. 2004. Stringing Together a Nation: Chdido Mariano Da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906 - 1930. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Dowers, Kenroy and Pietro Masci, ed. Focus on Capital: New Approaches to Developing Latin American Capital Markets. Inter-American DevelopmentBank: Washington, DC. Eckstein, Susan E. and Wickham-Crowley,Timothy P, eds. 2003. What Justice? Whose Justice?: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America. University of California Press. Los Angeles. Erlick, June C. 2004. Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced, The Irma Flaquer Story. Seal Press-An imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Inc.: Emeryville, CA Feiner, Muriel. 2003. Women and the Bullring. University Press of Florida: Gainesville. Firmat, Gustavo Perez. 2003. Tongue Ties, Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY. Gill, Lesley. 2004. The School of theAmericas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Gonzalez, Rigoberto. Crossing Vines, a novel. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, OK. Helg, Aline. 2004. Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia 1770-1835.University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill and London. Hoffman, Bert. 2004. Politics, Internet and the Third World. Taylor and FrancisRoutledge: Chicago. Hopkins, Dwight N. Lois Ann Lorentzen, et. al. (Eds.). 2001. Religions/Globalizations:Theories and Cases. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Books Received For Review 127 Juarez, Jose Roberto. 2004. Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque,NM. Karush, Matthew B. 2002. Workers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912-1930).University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, NM. Kirk, Robin. 2004. More Terrible Than Death: Violence, Drugs and America’s War in Colombia. Public Affairs: New York. Lanyon, Anna. 2004. The New World of Martin Cortez. Da Capo Press. Lesser,Jeffery (Ed).2003.SearchingForHomeAbroad:Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism.Duke University Press. Durham and London. Lockhart, James. 2001. Nahuatl as Written: Lesson in Older Written Nahuatl, With Copius Examples and Texts. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA. Ludmer, Josefina (translated by Molly Weigel). 2002. The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Nostrand, Richard L. 2003. El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village.University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK. Nouzeilles, Gabriela and Graciela Montaldo, eds. 2002. The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press: Durham and London. Pagan, Eduardo Obregon. 2003. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. The University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill and London. Pagano, Marco, ed. 2002. Defusing Default: Incentives and Institutions. Inter-American Development Bank: Washington, DC. Palmer, Steven. 2003. From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctol; Healers, and Public Power in Costa...

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