Special Issue: "Material Culture and Consumption in Latin American and Spain"

Guest editor: Arnold J. Bauer

Marie Francois: Cloth and Silver: Pawning and Material Life in Mexico City at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Regina A. Root: Searching for the Oasis in Life: Fashion and the Question of Female Emancipation in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina

Jesus Cruz: Builiding Liberal Identities in Nineteenth-Century Madrid: The Role of Middle Class Material Culture

Jeffrey M. Pilcher: Fajitas and the Failure of Refrigerated Meatpacking in Mexico: Consumer Culture and Porfiran Capitalism

Ross W. Jamieson: Bolts of Cloth and Sherds of Pottery: Impressions of Caste in the Material Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Audiencia of Quito

Leticia Reina and Elisa Servín, eds: Crisis, Reforma y Revolución: México: Historias de fin de siglo, reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra: How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, reviewed by Eric Van Young

Miguel Angel Centeno: Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America, reviewed by Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Paul J. Dosal: Commandante Che: Guerilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967, reviewed by Henry Butterfield Ryan

Thomas W. Walker: Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle (Fourth Edition), reviewed by Richard Grossman

Robert Whitney: State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940, reviewed by Marifeli Pérez-Stable

Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler: The Archaeologist Was A Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence, reviewed by Jürgen Buchenau

Erick D. Langer, ed.: Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America, reviewed by Donna Lee Van Cott

Samuel L. Baily and Eduardo José Míguez, eds.: Mass Migrations to Modern Latin America, reviewed by Daniel M. Masterson

Graham Davis: Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, reviewed by David J. Weber

John Frederick Schwaller: A Guide to Nahuatl Language Manuscripts Held in United States Repositories, reviewed by Robert Haskett

Eloise Quiñones Keber, ed.: Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún, reviewed by Louise M. Burkhart

Roberto Tomichá Charupá: La primera evangelización en las reducciones de Chiquitos, Bolivia (1691-1767), reviewed by Ward Stavig

Carlos Marichal and Daniela Marino, eds.: De colonia a nación: Impuestos y política en México, 1750-1860, reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci

Karen Racine: Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution, reviewed by Gary Miller

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, ed.: The Human Tradition in Mexico, reviewed by James Krippner

Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo, eds.: The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics, reviewed by Matthew B. Karush

Sandra Lauderdale Graham: Caetana Says No: Women’s Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society, reviewed by Mary Karasch

Valentina Napolitano: Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: Living in Urban Mexico, reviewed by Robert Curley

Marshall C. Eakin: Tropical Capitalism: The Industrializaton of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, reviewed by Richard Graham

Alberto Flores Galindo: Rostros de la plebe, reviewed by Charles F. Walker

David William Foster: Mexico City in Contemporary Cinema, reviewed by Seth Fein

Lydia Santos: Kitsch Tropical: Los medios en la literatura y el arte en América Latina, reviewed by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

Philip W. Scher: Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation, reviewed by Donald R. Hill

Steve Palmer: From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940, reviewed by Vera Blinn Reber

Nancy Pricilla Naro, ed.: Blacks, Coloreds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, reviewed by Mieko Nishida