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Volume 60 July  2003 Number 1

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Table of Contents

Ricardo Cicerchia: The Arena of Memory: Travelers, Historians, and Cultural Frontiers; The Conference of Latin America Historians Annual Luncheon Address, January 2003

Matthew B. Karush: National Identity in the Sports Pages: Football and the Mass Media in 1920s Buenos Aires

Frank T. Proctor: Afro-Mexican Slave Labor in the Obrajes de Paños of New Spain, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Lee M. Penyak: Obstetrics and the Emergence of Women in Mexico's Medical Establishment

Andrew Wood: Introducing La Reina del Carnaval: Public Celebration and Postrevolutionary Discourse in Veracruz, Mexico

Documents:

Negotiating Rights Under Slavery: The Slaves of San Geronimo (Baja Verapaz, Guatemala) Confront their Dominican Masters in 1810, by Lowell Gudmundson


Book Reviews

Pamela Voekel: Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico, reviewed by Anne Staples

Ronald J. Morgan: Spanish American Saints and the Rhetoric of Identity, 1600-1800, reviewed by Asunción Lavrín

Peter T. Bradley and David Cahill: Habsburg Peru: Images, Imagination, and Memory, reviewed by David T. Garrett

María Elena Díaz: The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780, reviewed by Michael Zeuske

Stewart R. King: Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue, reviewed by Jorge L. Chinea

Suzanne B. Pasztor: The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila, reviewed by Mark Wasserman

Juan Mora-Torres: The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910, reviewed by Miguel Tinker Salas

Guy Thomson, ed.: The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Americas, reviewed by Karen Racine

Steve Striffler: In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggles, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, reviewed by David Sowell

John Lindsay-Poland: Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama, reviewed by Alan Mcpherson

Chappell H. Lawson: Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Joseph S. Tulchin and Andrew D. Selee, eds.: Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition, reviewed by Roderic Ai Camp

Philip P. Arnold: Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Ueli Hostettlet and Matthew Restall, eds.: Maya Survivalism, reviewed by Kevin Gosner

Paul E. Little: Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers, reviewed by Barbara A. Sommer

John Dulles: Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil": Leading the Attack Against Vargas (1930-1945), reviewed by Jerry Davila

Miguel León-Portilla: Bernardino de Sahagiin: First Anthropologist, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Gareth Williams: The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America, reviewed by Matthew C. Gutmann

Ingrid E. Fey and Karen Racine, eds.: Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800-1990s, reviewed by Barbara A. Tenenbaum

 

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