Nancy E. van Deusen: The "Alienated" Body: Slaves and Castas in the Hospital De San Bartolomé in Lima, 1680-1700

David Rock: Argentina under Mitre: Porteño Liberalism in the 1860s

Doug Yarrington: Populist Anxiety: Race and Social Change in the Works of Rómulo Gallegos

Francis A. Dutra A Hard-Fought Struggle For Recognition: Manual Gonçalves Doria, First Afro-Brazilian to Become a Knight of Santiago

Guiomar Dueñas Vargas: Los hijos del pecado: Ilegitimidad y vida familiar en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial, reviewed by Ann Twinam

Rebecca Horn: Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519 1650, reviewed by John F. Schwaller,

Carmen Castañeda: Círculos de poder en la Nueva España, reviewed by John E. Kicza

Robert R. Miller: Juan Bautista Alvardo: Governor of California, 1836-1842, reviewed by Pedro Santoni

Victoria Chenaut, ed.: Procesos rurales e historia regional: Sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz, reviewed by David W. Walker

Timothy J. Henderson: The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and the Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927, reviewed by David G. Lafrance

Maria Lorena Cook: Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' movement in Mexico, reviewed by David Lorey

Kris E. Lane: Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750, reviewed by J. R. McNeill

Samuel M. Wilson, ed.: The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, reviewed by Lynne Guitar

Alan Cambeira: Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective, reviewed by Michael Kryzanek

G. Pope Atkins and Larman C. Wilson: The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism, reviewed by Michael R. Hall

José Trías Monge: Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World, reviewed by Jorge L. Chinea

Robin D. Moore: Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940, and Hermano Vianna: The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil, reviewed by Judith Ewell

Robert M. Levine: Father of the Poor?: Vargas and His Era, reviewed by Brian Owensby

Samuel Amaral: The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870, reviewed by Jeremy Adelman

Thomas Fischer: Die verlorenen Dekaden, reviewed by Friedrich E. Schuler

Anthony W. Pereira: The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988, reviewed by David McCreery

Ronn Pineo: Cities of Hope: People, Protests and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930, reviewed by Kathrine Bliss

Michael Riekenberg: Ethnische Kriege in Lateinamerika im 19. Jahrhundert, reviewed by Erick D. Langer

Thomas L. Pearcy: We Answer Only to God: Politics and the Military in Panama, 1903-1947, reviewed by Thomas M. Leonard

Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter: Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy, reviewed by Erik Ching

Eduardo Posada-Carbó, ed.: Elections before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America, reviewed by Richard Warren

Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells, eds.: The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930, reviewed by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes

Paul Roberts: The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, reviewed by William Glade