Special Issue: "Translating Native Voices in Colonial Latin American History"

Guest editor: Susan Elizabeth Ramírez: Introduction: Lost in Translation? The Practice of Translating, Interpreting, and Understanding the Past

Kay A. Read: The Chalcan Woman's Song: Sex as Political Metaphor in Fifteenth-Century Mexico

Camilla Townsend: "What in the World Have You Done to Me, My Lover? " Sex, Servitude, and Politics among the Pre-Conquest Nahuas as Seen in the Cantares Mexicanos

John F. Schwaller: The Ilhuica of the Nahua: Is Heaven just a Place?

David Tavárez: The Passion According to the Wooden Drum: Doctrinal Appropriation of a Colonial Zapotec Ritual Genre

Document in Translation

Language and the "True Conversion" to the Holy Faith: A Document from the Archivium Romanus Societatis Iesu, Rome, Italy by J. Michael Francis

Francie R. Chassen-López: From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911, reviewed by Brian R. Hamnett

ECONOMIC HISTORY

Paolo Riguzzi: ¿Reciprocidad imposible? La política del comercio entre México y Estados Unidos, 1857-1938, reviewed by Keith A. Haynes

Javier Pérez Siller: La fiscalidad: un observatorio para el historiador. Ensayo de historiografía sobre el porfiriato: 1867-1995, and Javier Pérez Siller: Crisis Fiscal: Reforma Hacendaria y consolidación del poder. Tres ensayos de historia económica del porfiriato, reviewed by William Schell, Jr.

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

Stefano Varese: Salt of the Mountain: Campa Asháninka History and Resistance in the Peruvian Jungle, reviewed by Bartholomew Dean

Beatriz Pérez Galán: Somos como Incas: Autoridades tradicionales en los Andes, reviewed by Waskar T. Ari

GENDER STUDIES

Daniel Balderston: El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: Ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas, reviewed by Ricardo L. Ortíz

Donna J. Guy: White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health and Progress in Latin America, reviewed by Katherine Elaine Bliss

LATINO/BORDER STUDIES

Elliott Young: Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, reviewed by Stephen Pitti

Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds.: Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, reviewed by Eric V. Meeks

Luis D. León: La Llorona’s Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, reviewed by Lois Ann Lorentzen

Lara Medina: Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church, reviewed by Ana María Díaz-Stevens

Leon Fink: Mayas from Morgantown: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, reviewed by Marie Theresa Hernández

LITERARY/CULTURAL STUDIES

Robert D. Aguirre: Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Literature, reviewed by Rachael Adams

R. Tripp Evans: Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915, reviewed by Daniel Alarcón

Gonzalo Aguilar: Poesía concreta brasileña: Las vanguardias en la encrucijada modernista, reviewed by Michelle Clayton

Tamara L. Underiner: Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts, reviewed by Ileana Azor Hernández

Christopher B. Conway: The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature, reviewed by Marixa Lasso

NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM

Richard Lee Turits: Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, reviewed by Jeffrey L. Gould

Marta Elena Casaús Arzú and Teresa García Giráldez, eds.: Las redes intelectuales centroamericanas: Un siglo de imaginarios nacionales (1820-1920), reviewed by Iván Molina-Jiménez

Alejandra Bronfman: Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940, reviewed by K. Lynn Stoner

Todd A. Diacon: Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930, reviewed by Michael L. Conniff

Alexander S. Dawson: Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico, reviewed by Emilio Kourí

Marcus Klein: Our Brazil Awake! The Acção Integralista Brasileira and the Failed Quest for a Fascist Order in the 1930s, reviewed by Sandra McGee Deutsch

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller, eds.: That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico 1697-1700, reviewed by Charles Cutter

Luis Medina Peña: Invención del sistema político mexicano: Forma de gobierno y gobernabilidad en México en el siglo XIX, reviewed by Charles A. Hale

David Samuels: Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil, reviewed by Eric Magar

Ulrich Muecke: Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: The Rise of the Partido Civil, reviewed by Vincent Peloso

RELIGION & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Linda B. Hall: Mary, Mother, and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas, reviewed by Stafford Poole

Gerardo Lara Cisneros: El cristianismo en el espejo indígena. Religiosidad en el occidente de Sierra Gorda, siglo XVIII, reviewed by David Tavárez

Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, eds.: Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, reviewed by Joseph M. Palacios

SLAVERY & DIASPORA STUDIES

Trevor Burnard: Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, reviewed by James A. Delle

URBAN SOCIAL HISTORY

Jorge A. Trujillo and Juan Quintar, eds.: Pobres, marginados y peligrosos, reviewed by Katherine Elaine Bliss

Jürgen Buchenau: Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present, reviewed by Keith Brewster

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Daniela Spenser, ed.: Espejos de la guerra fría: México, América Central y el Caribe, reviewed by Alan Mcpherson

Edward T. Brett: The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice, reviewed by Phillip Berryman

Maricio Soláun: U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, reviewed by Michael D. Gambone

Documentary Films

Eric Gandini and Tarik Saleh, directors: Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara?, reviewed by Paul J. Dosal

Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, directors: The Take, reviewed by Joel Horowitz