The Americas

Volume 63 April  2007 Number 4

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CONTENTS

Linda A. Newson and Susie Minchin: Diets, Food Supplies, and the African Slave Trade in Early Seventeenth-Century Spanish America

David M. Stark: Rescued from Their Invisibility: The Afro-Puerto Ricans of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico

Ida Altman: The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America

Kathryn Sloan: Disobedient Daughters and the Liberal State: Generational Conflicts over Marriage Choice in Working Class Families in Nineteenth-Century Oaxaca, Mexico


BOOK REVIEWS

Bianca Premo: Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima, reviewed by Cynthia E. Milton

Cultural & Literary Studies

Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz, eds.: Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz, reviewed by Lillian Guerra

Ignacio López-Calvo: “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator, reviewed by Jorge Rosario-Vélez

Environmental History

Roberta Buchanan, Anne Hart, and Bryan Greene: The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard, reviewed by Christina Leece

Ethnohistory & Indigenous Politics

O. Hugo Benavides: Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power, reviewed by Derek Williams

Matthew Restall, ed.: Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America, reviewed by Robinson A. Herrera

Judith Francis Zeitlin: Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and the State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500–1750, reviewed by Francie Chassen-López

Alan R. Sandstrom and E. Hugo García Valencia, eds.: Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, reviewed by Philip J. Arnold Iii

Family & Gender Studies

Barbara Potthast and Sandra Carrera, eds.: Entre la familia, la sociedad y el Estado; Niños y jóvenes en América Latina (siglos XIX-XX), reviewed by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Jeffrey M. Shumway: The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870, reviewed by William French

Latino & Border Studies

David A. Badillo: Latinos and the New Immigrant Church, reviewed by Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J, reviewed by Eithne Luibhéid, and Lionel Cantú, Jr., eds.: Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings, reviewed by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Mass Media & Communications

Alan O’Connor, ed.: Community Radio in Bolivia: The Miners’ Radio Stations, reviewed by Rosalind Bresnahan

Medical History

Diego Armus, ed.: Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina, 1870-1970, reviewed by Vera Blinn Reber

Julia Rodriguez: Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine and the Modern State, reviewed by Mariano Ben Plotkin

Military History

Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L. Whigham: I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-70, reviewed by Michael Kenneth Huner

Nation Building & Nationalism

Teresita Martínez-Vergne: Nation & Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916, reviewed by Matt D. Childs

Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon: Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy reviewed by Judith Adler Hellman

Darío A. Euraque, Jeffrey L. Gould, and Charles R. Hale, eds.: Memorias de Mestizaje: Cultura política en Centroamérica de 1920 al presente, reviewed by Steven Palmer

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez: Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Mexico, reviewed by Robert M. Buffington

David Bushnell: Ensayos de Historia Política de Colombia, siglos XIX y XX, reviewed by Malcolm Deas

Elisa Servín: La oposición política, reviewed by Pablo Piccato

Vania Markarian: Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984, reviewed by Margaret Power

Political Economy & Globalization

Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas, eds.: The Creation of the British Atlantic World, reviewed by Owen Stanwood

Politics & Governance

Irene Silverblatt: Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World, reviewed by Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez

Ana María Lorandi: Spanish King of the Incas: The Epic Life of Pedro Bohorques, reviewed by Sabine Hyland

Harold A. Trinkunas: Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective, reviewed by Gabriel Marcella

Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, eds.: Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness, reviewed by Rebecca Bill Chavez

Religion & Religious Practices

Kenneth P. Serbin: Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy and Seminaries, reviewed by Ralph Della Cava

Slavery & Diaspora Studies

George Reid Andrews: Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000, reviewed by Peter Blanchard

Urban Social History

Paul Lawrence Haber: Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico, reviewed by Joseph Foweraker

U.S. & International Relations

Stephen G. Rabe: U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story, reviewed by Hilbourne A. Watson

Documentary Films

Gonzalo Arijón, director: Lula's Brazil: The Management of Hope, reviewed by John D. French

Maria Augusta Ramos, director: Justice, reviewed by Adriana Abdenur


 

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