In this Issue

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Gregory Weeks
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Contributors

p. 1
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Articles

German Immigrants in Blumenau, Brazil: National Identity in Gertrud Gross-Hering’s Novels

Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau
pp. 5-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706007
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Noisy Regimes, Causal Processes, and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Costa Rica

Kirk Bowman, Scott Baker
pp. 23-57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706008
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Bridging The Convergence-Divergence Policy Diffusion Divide, Mid-Range Theorizing, and Devolving Food Aid in Mexico and The Dominican Republic

Ken Mitchell
pp. 59-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706009
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Malestares en la “Suiza centroamericana”. Interpretaciones de la identidad nacional en el ensayo costarricense

Amán Rosales Rodríguez
pp. 83-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706010
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Book Reviews

Spilling The Beans in Chicanolandia by Frederick Luis Aldama (review)

Liliana Wendorff
pp. 103-104
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Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires 1785–1853 by Osvaldo Barreneche (review)

Guillermina S. Seri
pp. 104-106
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Mexico: A Brief History by Alicia Hernández Chávez (review)

Alberto E. Nickerson
pp. 106-108
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Corruption in Cuba. Castro and Beyond by Sergio Díaz-Diquets, Jorge Pérez-López (review)

Mervyn J. Bain
pp. 109-110
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Tiburcio Carías: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader by Thomas J. Dodd (review)

Michael R. Hall
pp. 111-112
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Cuba Libre: A Brief History of Cuba by Paul J. Dosal (review)

Robert Lesman
pp. 112-114
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Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy ed. by Edward Epstein, David Pion-Berlin (review)

Kurt Weyland
pp. 114-116
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Cuba and the Tempest. Literature and Cinema in The Time of Diaspora by Eduardo González (review)

Adriana Tápanes-Inojosa
pp. 116-118
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Miradas/Gazes by Miriam González-Hernández (review)

Esperanza Malavé Cintrón
pp. 118-120
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The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850 by Peter Guardino (review)

Andrew Grant Wood
pp. 120-122
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The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya by Stephen Houston, David Stuart, Karl Taube (review)

Bruce Dean Willis
pp. 122-124
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Wars Within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848 by Irving W. Levinson (review)

Benjamin L. Hyman
pp. 124-126
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Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America: Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants by Paul H. Lewis (review)

David M. Carletta
pp. 126-129
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Versos Sencillos: A Dual-Language Edition by José Martí (review)

Maria T. Redmon
pp. 129-130
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Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez (review)

Nathan Clarke
pp. 130-132
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Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875–2002 by Marco Palacios (review)

Debora Cordeiro-Rosa
pp. 132-134
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Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective by Peter H. Smith (review)

Jairo Acuña-Alfaro
pp. 135-137
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua by Mauricio Solaún (review)

Thomas M. Leonard
pp. 137-138
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Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca by Lynn Stephen (review)

Angela N. Castañeda
pp. 138-140
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El pesimismo en tres novelas dominicanas de la posguerra: De abril en adelante, Currículum (El síndrome de la visa) y La otra Penélope by Rita Tejada (review)

José Manuel Batista
pp. 140-142
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The Eagle and the Virgin. Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940 ed. by Mary Kay Vaughan, Stephen E. Lewis (review)

R. Hernández Rodríguez
pp. 142-144
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Camacho c’est moi: Parodia social y géneros literarios en La tía Julia y el escribidor by Liliana Tiffert Wendorff (review)

Manuel Prendes
pp. 144-145
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Foreign Policy Toward Cuba: Isolation or Engagement? ed. by Michele Zebich-Knos, Heather N. Nicol (review)

José de Arimatéia da Cruz
pp. 146-148
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Books Received For Review

pp. 149-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706034
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Minutes of The Secolas Executive Council Meeting

pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.a706035
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Supplement For Executive Meeting

p. 156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2007.0030
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