Edward Beatty: Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico Before 1911, reviewed by John H. Coatsworth

Gail D. Triner: Banker and Economic Development in Brazil, 1889-1930, reviewed by Richard Salvucci

Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez: Experiencas contrastadas: Industrialización y conflictos en los textiles del centro-oriente de México, 1884-1917, reviewed by Aldo Lauria-Santiago

Silvia Marian Arrom: Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871, reviewed by Elizabeth A. Kuznesof

Ben Vinson III: Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico, reviewed by Pedro Santoni

Theodore G. Vincent: The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's First Black Indian President, reviewed by Peter Guardino

Manuel de Mier y Terán: Texas by Terán: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas, reviewed by Jesús F. de la Teja

Jeffrey M. Pilcher: Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity, reviewed by Katherine Elaine Bliss

Victor M. Uribe-Uran, ed.: State and Society in Spanish America During the Age of Revolution, reviewed by Lee M. Penyak

Stuart F. Voss: Latin America in the Middle Period, 1750-1929, reviewed by Jane M. Rausch

Marcelo Carmagnani and Gabriella Chiaramonti, eds.: Constitucionalismo y órden liberal América Latina 1850-1920, reviewed by Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Nancy Leys Stepan: Picturing Tropical Nature, reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin

Olivier Debroise: Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico, reviewed by Donald F. Stevens

Patricio Valdivieso: Ein Weg zur Sozialreform in Lateinamerika: Die Rezeption der katholischen Soziallehre Europas in Chile, 1820-1920, reviewed by Thomas Kruggeler

Hilda Sábato: The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires, reviewed by Joel Horowitz

Mariano Ben Plotkin: Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina, reviewed by Mark D. Szuchman

Margaret Popkin: Peace Without Justice: Obstacles to Building the Rule of Law in El Salvador, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Florence E. Babb: After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua, reviewed by Katherine Isbester

Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden, eds.: The Undermining of the Sandinsta Revolution, reviewed by Steven Palmer

Mary A. Renda: Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940, reviewed by Eric Paul Roorda

Lisandro Pérez and Uva de Aragón, eds.: Cuban Studies 31, reviewed by Alejandra Bronfman

Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and David Stuart, eds.: The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing, reviewed by Matthew Restall

Virginia M. Bouvier: Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840: Codes of Silence, reviewed by Teresa Meade

James Schofield Saeger: The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience, reviewed by Ted L. Gragson