The Americas

Volume 63 January  2007 Number 3

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Willie Hiatt: Flying "Cholo": Incas, Airplanes, and the Construction of Andean Modernity in 1920s Cuzco, Peru

James Krippner: Traces, Images, and Fictions: Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932-34

Pablo Lacoste: The Rise and Secularization of Viticulture in Mendoza: The Godoy Family Contribution, 1700-1831

Jan Hoffman French: A Tale of Two Priests and Two Struggles: Liberation Theology from Dictatorship to Democracy in the Brazilian Northeast


BOOK REVIEWS

Michel Gobat: Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule, reviewed by Michael J. Schroeder

Cultural & Literary Studies

Ignacio Arellano and Fermín del Pino Díaz, eds.: Lecturas y ediciones de crónicas de Indias. Una propuesta interdisciplinaria, reviewed by Ralph Bauer

Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart, eds.: Nahuatl Theater Volume I: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico, reviewed by Jaime Lara

Margo Glantz: La desnudez como naufragio: Borrones y borradores, reviewed by Sara Castro-Klaren

Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg, eds.: The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, reviewed by Lincoln Cushing

Jason Borge: Avances de Hollywood: Crítica cinematográfica en Latinoamérica, 1915-1945, reviewed by Margarita de Orellana

John Mraz: Nacho López: Mexican Photographer, reviewed by Roberto Tejada

Jennifer L. French: Nature, Neo-Colonialism, and the Spanish American Regional Writers, reviewed by Dierdra Reber

Lúcia Sá: Rain Forest Literatures: Indigenous Texts and Latin American Culture, reviewed by Carlos Jauregui

Ileana Azor: Teatralidades y carnaval: danzantes y color en Puebla de los Angeles, reviewed by Leonora Saavedra

Stephen Hart and Richard Young, eds.: Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, reviewed by Edna M. Rodríguez-Mangual

Economic History

Fernando Rocchi: Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina during the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930, reviewed by James Brennan

Ethnohistory & Indigenous Politics

Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, eds.: Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, reviewed by Mary Helms

Donald Chipman: Moctezuma’s Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520 – 1700, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Robert Haskett: Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca, reviewed by Catherine Komisaruk

Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano, eds.: Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatán, and Guatemala, and James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds.: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, reviewed by Stephanie Wood

Rani T. Alexander: Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective, reviewed by Robert W. Patch

Paulo Drinot and Leo Garofalo, ed.: Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia. Estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI-XX, reviewed by Ulrich Muecke

F. Todd Smith: From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859, reviewed by Jesús F. de la Teja

Paul Sullivan: Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan, reviewed by Ben Fallaw

Gender Studies

Karen Kampwirth: Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, reviewed by Beth Cagan

Nation Building & Nationalism

Oliver Marshall: English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, reviewed by Marcelo J. Borges

Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis, eds.: The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940, reviewed by William H. Beezley

Louis A. Pérez, Jr.: To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society, reviewed by María Elena Díaz

Colin A. Palmer: Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean, reviewed by Paul Buhle

Politics & Governance

J. H. Elliott: Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830, reviewed by Lester D. Langley

Kris Lane: Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition, reviewed by Erin O’Connor

Tamar Herzog: Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750), reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder

Religion & Religious Practices

Daniel T. Reff: Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New, reviewed by Cynthia Radding

Rural Social History

Emilio Kourí: A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico, reviewed by Peter Guardino

Slavery & Diaspora Studies

José C. Curto and Renée Soulodre-La France, eds.: Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade, reviewed by Dale Tomich

Elizabeth W. Kiddy: Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil, reviewed by Alida C. Metcalf

Andrew Wilson, ed.: The Chinese in the Caribbean, reviewed by Lucy M. Cohen

Urban Social History

Patrick Frank: Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers' Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917-1935, reviewed by Matthew B. Karush

Kirwin R. Shaffer: Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba, reviewed by Marc C. McLeod

U.S. & International Relations

Klaas Dykmann: Philanthropic Endeavors or the Exploitation of an Ideal? The Human Rights Policy of the Organization of American States in Latin America (1970-1991), reviewed by Lars Schoultz

Documentary Films

Erling Borgen, director: The Ambassador, reviewed by Richard Grossman

Mary Ellen Davis, director: Haunted Land, reviewed by Jennifer Schirmer

Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez, directors: La Sierra, reviewed by Cristina Escobar

Nadja Drost, director: Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow, reviewed by J. Montgomery Roper

Nicolas Rossier, director: Aristide and the Endless Revolution, reviewed by Anne Marie Choup


 

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