The Americas

Volume 64 April  2008 Number 4

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CONTENTS

Jordana Dym: Citizen of Which Republic? Foreigners and the Construction of National Citizenship in Central America, 1823-1845

Sujay Rao: Arbiters of Change: Provincial Elites and the Origins of Federalism in Argentina's Littoral, 1814-1820

David T. Garrett: "In Spite of Her Sex": The Cacica and the Politics of the Pueblo in the Late Colonial Andes

Frederick Douglass Opie: Black Americans and the State in Turn-of-the-Century Guatemala


BOOK REVIEWS

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700, reviewed by Owen Stanwood

Cultural &  Literary Studies

Fernando Rosenberg: The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America, reviewed by Christopher Dunn

Carlota Caulfield and Darién J. Davis, eds.: A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures, reviewed by Eduardo González

Gabriella Gutiérrez  y Muhs: Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile. Theorizing the Space of Exile, Class, and Identity, reviewed by Estela Valverde

Economic History

Laura Pérez Rosales: Familia, poder, riqueza y subversión: Los Fagoaga novohispanos, 1730-1830, reviewed by Edith Couturier

Environmental History

José Eusebio Llano Zapata and Ricardo Ramírez Castañeda: Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América meridional, reviewed by Emily Berquist

Ethnohistory & Indigenous Politics

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed. and trans.: Testaments of Toluca, reviewed by Sarah Cline

Barbara Butler: Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol Among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador, reviewed by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Family &  Gender Studies

María Emma Mannarelli; Sidney Evans and Meredith D. Dodge, trans.: Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima, reviewed by Ann Twinam

Latino &  Border Studies

Ramón Saldívar: The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary, reviewed by Rachel Adams

William Anthony Nericcio: Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America, reviewed by Amanda L. Morales

Military History

Eileen Welsome: The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge, reviewed by Andrae M. Marak

Nation Building &  Nationalism

Jaime E. Rodríguez O, ed.: Revolución, independencia y las nuevas naciones de América, reviewed by Will Fowler

Elisa Servín, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino, eds.: Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change, Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, reviewed by Roderic Ai Camp

Daniel Lewis: Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951, reviewed by Monica L. Hardin

Politics &  Governance

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo; G.F. Dille, trans.: Writing From the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darién, 1514-1527, reviewed by Katherine Thompson

Paul W. Drake and Eric Hershberg, eds.: State and Society in Conflict: Comparative Perspectives on Andean Crises, reviewed by John C. Dugas

Marta Irurozqui Victoriano, ed.: La mirada esquiva. Reflexiones históricas sobre la interacción del estado y la ciudadanía en los Andes (Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú), siglo XIX, reviewed by Vincent Peloso

Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón, eds.: Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia, reviewed by Steven L. Taylor

Winifred Tate: Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia, reviewed by Orin Starn

Rural Social History

Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington: Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782, reviewed by Kris Lane

Slavery & Diaspora Studies

Matt D. Childs: The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery, reviewed by Fannie Theresa Rushing

U.S. &  International Relations

Bruce P. Cameron: My Life in the Time of the Contras, reviewed by Robert C. Harding

Documentary Films

Heidi Specogna, dir.: The Short Life of José Antonio Gutiérrez, reviewed by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt


 

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