Judy Bieber: Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889, reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin

Jane M. Rausch: Colombia: Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier, reviewed by Helen Delpar

Lucio V. Mansilla: A Visit to the Ranquel Indians, reviewed by Kristine L. Jones

Cheryl English Martin: Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century, reviewed by Cynthia Radding

Brigida von Mentz: Trabajo, sujección y libertad en el centre de la Nueva España, reviewed by Cheryl E. Martin

Dorothy Tanck de Estrada: Pueblos de indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750-1821, reviewed by Peter Guardino

Bartolome de Alva: A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, reviewed by Rebecca Horn

Pilar Latasa Vassallo: Administracion virreinal en el Peru: Gobiemo del Marques de Montesclaros (1607-1615) and Juan Pablo Salazar Andreu: Gobiemo en la Nueva Espana del Virrey Luis de Velasco, El Joven (1590-1595) y (1607-1611), reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Sarah C. Chambers: From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender,and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854, reviewed by Charles F. Walker

Thomas M. Leonard, ed.: United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Kenneth D. Lehman: Bolivia and the United States:A Limited Partnership, reviewed by James F. Siekmeier

Alan Dye: Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929, reviewed by Linda K. Salvucci

David Close: Nicaragua: The Chamorro Years, reviewed by Richard Stahler-Sholk

Les W. Field: The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua, reviewed by Florence E. Babb

Eva P. Bueno and Terry Caesar, eds.: Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture, reviewed by Anne Rubenstein