CONTENTS

Susan M. Socolow: 2007 CLAH Luncheon Address: "History and the Goddess Fortune: The Case of Santiago de Liniers"

John Charles: Unreliable Confessions: Khipus in the Colonial Parish

Martha S. Santos: On the Importance of Being Honorable: Masculinity, Survival, and Conflict in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, Ceará, 1840-1890

Jesse Hingson: "Savages" into Supplicants: Subversive Women and Restitution Petitions in Córdoba, Argentina during the Rosas Era

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BOOK REVIEWS

Patrick J. McNamara: Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz, and the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-1920, reviewed by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez

CULTURAL & LITERARY STUDIES

Lisa Breglia: Monumental Ambivalence: The Politics of Heritage, reviewed by Traci Ardren

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

Camilla Townsend: Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, reviewed by Matthew Restall

Frank H. Baumgardner: Killing for Land in Early California: Indian Blood at Round Valley, 1856-1863, reviewed by Benjamin L. Madley

FAMILY & GENDER STUDIES

William E. French and Katherine Elaine Bliss, eds.: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America Since Independence, reviewed by Susie S. Porter

Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru and Berta Ares Queija, eds.: Las mujeres en la construcción de las sociedades iberoamericanas, reviewed by Sarah C. Chambers

LATINO & BORDER STUDIES

Robert Courtney Smith: Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants, reviewed by David G. Gutierrez

MEDICAL HISTORY

Ann Zulawski: Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950, reviewed by Julia Rodriguez

MILITARY HISTORY

Celso Castro, Vitor Izecksohn, and Hendrik Kraay, eds.: Nova Historía Militar Brasileira, reviewed by Sonny B. Davis

NATION BUILDING & NATIONALISM

John Lynch: Simón Bolívar: A Life, reviewed by David Bushnell

Joseph E. Chance: José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary, reviewed by Joseph A. Stout, Jr.

Chris Frazer: Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920 , reviewed by Mark Wasserman

Todd Hartch: Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1935-1985, reviewed by Alexander Dawson

Stefan Rinke: Begegnungen mit dem Yankee: Nordamerikanisierung und soziokultureller Wandel in Chile (1898-1990), reviewed by Jürgen Buchenau

Paul Buhle: Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story, reviewed by Jason Parker

Florencia E. Mallon: Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001, reviewed by Patrick Barr-Melej

POLITICAL ECONOMY & GLOBALIZATION

Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds.: From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, reviewed by Isaac Campos

John Soluri: Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, reviewed by Catherine Legrand

Reinhard Liehr, ed.: Empresas y modernización en México desde las reformas borbónicas hasta el Porfiriato, reviewed by William Schell

Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen, eds.: Latin America After NeoLiberalism, reviewed by Glen David Kuecker

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Roberto Breña: El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808-1824. Una revisión historiográfica del liberalismo hispano, reviewed by Ivana Frasquet

Osvaldo Barreneche: Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853, reviewed by Mark D. Szuchman

Enrique Desmond Arias: Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks and Public Security, reviewed by Bryan McCann

RELIGION & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Daniel Castro: Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism, reviewed by James Krippner

Stanley M. Hordes: To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, reviewed by Thomas M. Cohen

Martin Austin Nesvig, eds.: Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, reviewed by Osvaldo Pardo

Alison Lake: Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California, reviewed by James A. Sandos

SLAVERY & DIASPORA STUDIES

Nicole Von Germeten: Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans, reviewed by R. Douglas Cope

G. Reginald Daniel: Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, reviewed by Jerry Dávila

Lisa D. McGill: Constructing Black Selves: Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation, reviewed by Mamadou Badiane

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Mikael Wiström, director: Compadre, reviewed by John Burdick

Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz, and Anna Klara Ahrén, directors: Can’t Do It in Europe, reviewed by Alan O’Connor

Heather Haddon and Rachel Dannefer, directors: Bloqueo: Looking at the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba, reviewed by Katherine A. Gordy

Giselle Portenier, director: Killer’s Paradise, reviewed by Lesley Gill