2006 CLAH Luncheon Address: Alan Knight, "A Personal Porfiriato: Thirty-five Years of Muddling Through Mexico (and Points South)"

David Espinosa: Student Politics, National Politics: Mexico's National Student Union, 1926-1943

Dan La Botz: American "Slackers" in the Mexican Revolution: International Proletarian Politics in the Midst of a National Revolution

Flavia Fiorucci: Between Institutional Survival and Intellectual Commitment: The Case of the Argentine Society of Writers during Perón's Rule, 1945-1955

Kit McPhee: "Immigrants with Money Are No Use to Us:" Race and Ethnicity in the Zona Portuaria of Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1912

Aline Helg: Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835, reviewed by Jonathan Eastwood

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

Robert Borofsky: Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn From It, reviewed by Frank A. Salamone

Benjamin Feinberg: The Devil’s Book of Culture: History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico, reviewed by Ronda L. Brulotte

Helge Ingstad: The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe, reviewed by David J. Weber

GENDER STUDIES

Karen Vieira Powers: Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600, reviewed by Jacqueline Holler

Carlos A. Mayo: Porque la quiero tanto: Historia del amor en la sociedad rioplatense (1750-1860), reviewed by Rebecca Earle

Blenda Femenías: Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru, reviewed by Krista E. Van Vleet

LATINO & BORDER STUDIES

David Bacon: The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border, reviewed by Andrew G. Wood

Gilda L. Ochoa: Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity, reviewed by Leo R. Chávez

LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES

Heindrun Adler and Jaime Chabaud, eds.: Un viaje sin fin. Teatro mexicano hoy, reviewed by Gastón A. Alzate

Roland Spiller, Titus Heydenreich, Walter Hoefler and Sergio Vergara, eds.: Memoria, duelo y narración. Chile después de Pinochet: literature, cine, sociedad, reviewed by Walescka Pino-Ojeda

Tim Mitchell: Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol’s Power in Mexican History and Culture, reviewed by Dwight B. Heath

Ileana Rodríguez: Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles, reviewed by Peter Hulme

Gretchen Murphy: Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire, reviewed by Amy S. Greenberg

MEDICAL HISTORY

Diego Armus, ed.: Entre médicos y curanderos: Cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna, reviewed by Katherine Elaine Bliss

Marcos Cueto: El Valor de la Salud: Historia de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, reviewed by Steven Palmer

NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM

Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, eds.: Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950 , reviewed by Marc Becker

Iñigio García-Bryce: Crafting the Republic: Lima’s Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879, reviewed by David Sowell

Steve J. Stern: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Even of London 1998, reviewed by Katherine Hite

POLITICAL ECONOMY & GLOBALIZATION

Manuel Hernández González: Comercio y emigración en América en el siglo XVIII, reviewed by Allan J. Kuethe

Kenneth Maxwell: Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, reviewed by Richard Graham

Gerardo Otero, ed.: Mexico in Transition: Neoliberal Globalism, the State and Civil Society, reviewed by Frances Rothstein

George Gmelch: Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism, reviewed by Amanda Stronza

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Verónica Oikión Solano: Los hombres del poder en Michoacán, 1924-1962, reviewed by Christopher Boyer

Thomas J. Dodd: Tiburcio Carías: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader, reviewed by Michael D. Gambone

Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini, eds.: Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe, reviewed by George Philip

John D. French: Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture, reviewed by Oliver Dinius

RELIGION & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Robert S. Pelton, ed.: Monsignor Romero: A Bishop for the Third Millennium; and