The Americas

Volume 64 January  2008 Number 3

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CONTENTS

Kelly Donahue-Wallace: Picturing Prints in Early Modern New Spain

Leslie Offut: Defending Corporate Identity on the Northern New Spanish Frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, 1780-1810

Emily Berquist: Bishop Martínez Compañón's Practical Utopia in Enlightenment Peru

Interview: Since Black into White: Thomas Skidmore on Brazilian Race Relations


BOOK REVIEWS

Steve J. Stern: Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988, reviewed by Michael J. Lazzara

Cultural & Literary Studies

Doris Sommer, ed.: Cultural Agency in the Americas, reviewed by Ileana Rodríguez

Ricardo Salvatore: Imágenes de un imperio: Estados Unidos y las formas de representación de América Latina, reviewed by Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste

Karl Kohut and Werner Mackenbach, eds.: Literaturas centroamericanas hoy: Desde la dolorosa cintura de América, reviewed by Linda Ledford-Miller

Economic History

Anne G. Hanley: Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920, reviewed by Steven Topik

Ethnohistory & Indigenous Politics

Brian S. Bauer: Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca, reviewed by Catherine Julien

Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, ed.: Historia de la vida cotidiana en México, I. Mesoamérica y los ámbitos indígenas de la Nueva España, reviewed by Robert Haskett

Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady, eds.: Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context, reviewed by Leslie C. Shaw

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, ed.: Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca; and Jonathan D. Steigman: La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America, reviewed by Luis Millones Figueroa

Family & Gender Studies

Jocelyn Olcott: Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, reviewed by Kristina A. Boylan

Latino & Border Studies

Andrés Reséndez: A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: Jose Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, reviewed by Douglas W. Richmond

Samuel Truett: Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, reviewed by Elliott Young

George Mariscal: Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965–1975, reviewed by Tom I. Romero, II

Military History

Irving W. Levinson: Wars Within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, reviewed by Bryan E. Vizzini

John Lawrence Tone: War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898, reviewed by Geoffrey Jensen

Nation Building & Nationalism

Dina Berger: The Development of Mexico’s Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night, reviewed by Steven B. Bunker

Marco Palacios: Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002, reviewed by Pamela Murray

Alberto Ulloa Bornemann: Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir, reviewed by O’Neill Blacker-Hanson

Political Economy & Globalization

Maria Elena Martinez-Torres: Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Maya Farmers, reviewed by David Barkin

Ricardo Pérez: The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico, reviewed by Bonnie J. McCay

Politics & Governance

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando Leiva, eds.: Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973, reviewed by Peter Winn

Religion & Religious Practices

Sabine Hyland: The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J., reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien

Timothy Matovina: Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present, reviewed by Linda B. Hall

Slavery & Diaspora Studies

Gelien Matthews: Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement, reviewed by Cassandra Pybus

Luis A. Figueroa: Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, reviewed by David M. Stark

Edward E. Telles: Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, reviewed by Anani Dzidzienyo

U.S. & International Relations

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

Documentary Films

Kief Davidson, director: The Devil's Miner, reviewed by Gertrude M. Yeager


 

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