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Since its founding in 1944, The Americas (TAm) has been one of the principal English-language journals of Latin American history. It publishes articles on all chronological periods of Latin American, Spanish borderlands, and related Iberian scholarship. The journal includes an extensive book review section and a compilation of news and notes of general interest to Latin Americanists.
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Volume 78, Number 2, April 2021Table of Contents

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View Traffic Problems: Authority, Mobility, and Technology in Mexico’s Federal District, 1867–1912
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View Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum by Garry G. Sparks (review)
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View Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town by Mark Z. Christensen and Matthew Restall (review)
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View Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America ed. by Jenny Mander, David Midgley, and Christine D. Beaule (review)
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The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World by Ralph Bauer (review)

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View The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain by Lori Boornazin Diel (review)
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Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City by Andrew Konove (review)

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View Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain by Ana Pulido Rull (review)
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View Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America by Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr (review)
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View The Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815. A Reader of Primary Sources ed. by Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón (review)
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View Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives ed. by Gabriel Paquette and Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia (review)
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View A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship by Keila Grinberg (review)
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View Matters of Reform: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico by Helga Baitenmann (review)
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View El alborotador de Centroamérica: El Salvador frente al imperio by Héctor Lindo Fuentes (review)
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View The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation by Éric Toussaint (review)
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View Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer by Fernando Santos-Granero (review)
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View Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars by Luis Hernández Navarro (review)
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View Huelgas democratizadoras: la rebelión estudiantil en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (1980–1982) by Iván Molina Jiménez (review)
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View Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class by Jeb Sprague (review)
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View Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe by Carol Damian, Michael J. LaRosa and Steve Stein (review)
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View The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes by David Nugent (review)
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View The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina by Federico M. Rossi (review)
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ISSN | 1533-6247 |
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Print ISSN | 0003-1615 |
Launched on MUSE | 2021-05-19 |
Open Access | No |
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