Ann Twinam: Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America, reviewed by Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

James Lockhart: Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History, reviewed by John E. Kicza  

Jean Franco: Critical Passions: Selected Essay, reviewed by Judith Ewell  

Doris Sommer: Proceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas, reviewed by Vivaldo A. Santos 

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, ed.: On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion in Modern Latin America, reviewed by Deborah Baldwin  

Paul Gootenberg, ed.: Cocaine: Global Histories, reviewed by Joseph A. Gagliano  

Mark T. Gilderhus: The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889, reviewed by Friedrich E. Schuler  

Nick Cullather: Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954, reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.; 

Rachel M. McCleary: Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution, reviewed by Paul Dosal 

Thomas D. Schoonover: The French in Central America: Culture and Commerce, 1820-1930, reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes 

Steve J. Stern, ed.: Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995, reviewed by Victor Peralt 

Samuel L. Baily: Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914, reviewed by Mark D. Szuchman 

Sandra McGee Deutsch: Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939, reviewed by Donna J. Guy 

Rita Arditti: Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina, reviewed by Margaret Crahan 

Brian Hamnett: A Concise History of Mexico, reviewed by Eric Van Young  

Juan Pedro Viqueira Albán: Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico, reviewed by Pamela Voekel                                         

Will Fowler and Humberto Morales Moreno, eds.: El conservadurismo mexicano en el siglo xix, reviewed by Timothy E. Anna  

Mark C. Anderson: Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines, reviewed by Suzanne PASCTOR 

Thomas Benjamin: La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth and History, reviewed by Eric S. Zolov 

Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel, eds.: Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers, reviewed by John Mraz