Stafford Poole, C. M.: The Politics of Limpieza de Sangre : Juan de Ovando and his Circle in the Reign of Philip II

Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato: Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality

Gertrude M. Yeager: Female Apostolates and Modernization in Mid Nineteenth-Century Chile

Brian F. Connaughton: Conjuring the Body Politic from the Corpus Mysticum: The Post-Independent Pursuit of Public Opinion in Mexico, 1821-1854

Donald F. Stevens, ed.: Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies, reviewed by Ann Twinam

Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara A. Tenenbaum, eds.: Liberals, Politics and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, reviewed by Sarah C. Chambers

Jeffrey M. Pilcher: Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity, reviewed by Donald F. Stevens

Marshall C. Eakin: Brazil: The Once and Future Country, reviewed by Alida C. Metcalf

Miles H. Davidson: Columbus, Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

David Ewing Duncan: Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest for the Americas; Charles Hudson: Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Kingdoms; Patricia Galloway, ed.: The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the South's Ancient Kingdoms, reviewed by Lawrence A. Clayton

Lance Grahn: The Political Economy of Smuggling: Regional Informal Economies in Early Bourbon New Granada, reviewed by Kendall W. Brown

Frances R. Aparicio: Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures, reviewed by Judith Ewell

João José Reis and Flávio dos Santos Gomes: Liberdade por um fio: História dos quilombos no Brasil, reviewed by Michael L. Conniff

Alcida Ramos: Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crises, reviewed by William H. Fisher

Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimapahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, edited and translated by Victor M. Castillo F.: Primer Amoxtli Libro: 3a Relación de las Différentes Histoires Originales, reviewed by Susan Schroeder

Enrique Krauze; translated by Hank Heifetz: Mexico. Biography of Power. A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996, reviewed by Richard J. Salvucci

Paul Vanderwood: The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by Ward S. Albro

Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Paolo Riguzzi, eds.: Ferrocarriles y vida económica en México, 1850-1950. Del surgimiento tardio al decaimiento precoz, reviewed by Barbara A. Tenenbaum

Vivienne Bennett: The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico, reviewed by Matthew D. Esposito

John Lynch: Massacre in the Pampas, 1872: Britain and Argentina in the Age of Migration, reviewed by David Bushnell

Thomas Schoonover: Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929, reviewed by Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Debra Sabia: Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua, reviewed by Margaret E. Crahan

Elizabeth Joyce and Carlos Malamud, eds.: Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade, reviewed by Paul Gootenberg

Mark Moberg: Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Richard Tardanico and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds.: Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt