Richard Trexler: Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas, reviewed by Edith Couturier

Arij Ouweneel: Shadows over Anáhuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800, reviewed by Sonya Lipsett Rivera

William Lofstrom: La vida intima de Tomels Cipriano de Mosquera, 1798 1830, reviewed by J. León Helguera

Timothy Anna: Forging Mexico, 1821 1835, reviewed by Peter Guardino

Wallace Ohrt: Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War, reviewed by Richard Griswold del Castillo

Michael Johns: The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz, reviewed by Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Friedrich E. Schuler: Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas. 1934 1940, reviewed by Thomas Benjamin

Benjamin Welles: Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist, reviewed by John Offner

Robert Levine: The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor. 1940 1942, reviewed by Darién J. Davis

Barbara Weinstein: For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920 1964, reviewed by Brian Owensby

Michael George Hanchard: Orpheus and Power. The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Brazil, 1945 1988, reviewed by V .P. Franklin

Jay Kinsbruner: Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, reviewed by José M. Garcia Leduc

James McGuire: Peronism Without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina, reviewed by Jeremy Adelman

Deborah Norden: Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation, reviewed by J. Samuel Fitch

Eduardo Silva: The State and Capital in Chile, Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics, reviewed by Michael Fleet

Rosalie Schwartz: Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba, reviewed by Eric Zolov

Edmundo Morales: The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes, reviewed by Vincent Peloso

Deborah Yashar: Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s, reviewed by Kyle Longley

Eugene Miller: A Holy Alliance? The Church and the Left in Costa Rica, 1933-1948, reviewed by Hubert J. Miller