The Americas

Volume 66 July  2009 Number 1

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CONTENTS

Asunción Lavrin: 2009 CLAH Luncheon Address: Recuerdos/Remembrances

Peter M. Beattie: "Born under the Cruel Rigor of Captivity, the Supplicant Left It Unexpecedly by Committing a Crime": Categorizing and Punishing Slave Convicts in Brazil, 1830-1897

Ian Read: Sickness, Recovery, and Death among the Enslaved and Free People of Santos, Brazil, 1860-1888

Howard Wiarda: Research Note: The Political Sociology of a Concept: Corporatism and the "Distinct Tradition"


BOOK REVIEWS

Maria Elena Martinez: Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico, reviewed by Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas

CULTURAL & LITERARY STUDIES

Michael Schreffler: The Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain, reviewed by Susan Deans-Smith

Neil Safier: Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin

Marcy Norton: Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, reviewed by Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Clarence Bernard Henry: Let’s Makes Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music, reviewed by John Charles Chasteen

Leonard Folgarait: Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Alvarez Bravo, reviewed by James Krippner

Ruben Gallo: Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution, reviewed by Amy E. Slaton

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

David Abulafia: The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus, reviewed by Alida C. Metcalf

Florine Asselbergs: Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, a Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

John L. Kessell: Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico, reviewed by Jean A. Stuntz

Marc Becker: Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, reviewed by A. Kim Clark

FAMILY & GENDER STUDIES

Pamela S. Murray: For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz, reviewed by Judith Ewell

Kathryn A. Sloan: Runaway Daughters: Seduction, Elopement, and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, reviewed by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

O. Hugo Benavides: Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America, reviewed by Laura Isabel Serna

Heather Levi: The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity, reviewed by Andrew Wood

NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by Fernando Unzueta

Peter V. N. Henderson: Gabriel García Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes, reviewed by Frank Safford

POLITICAL ECONOMY & GLOBALIZATION

Eric N. Baklanoff and Edward H. Moseley, eds.: Yucatán in an Era of Globalization, reviewed by Heather L. McCrea

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead: Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present, reviewed by Brooke Larson

RURAL SOCIAL HISTORY

John Mason Hart: The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepard, and the People of the Canyons, reviewed by Stuart F. Voss

Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching, and Rafael A. Lara-Martínez: Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory, reviewed by Robert H. Holden

Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago: To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932, reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes

SLAVERY & DIASPORA STUDIES

Mariana L. R. Dantas: Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas, reviewed by Kali Nicole Gross

Marixa Lasso: Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795-1831, reviewed by Reuben Zahler

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Fred Rosen: Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America, reviewed by Robert H. Duncan

John J. Dwyer: The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico, reviewed by Irving W. Levinson

Michael Grow: U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War, reviewed by Bruce Calder

Jana K. Lipman: Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution, reviewed by Aviva Chomsky

César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe: Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898, reviewed by Francie Chassen-López


 

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