Eric Zolov: Showcasing the Land of Tomorrow: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics

Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens: From Symbols of the Sacred to Symbols of Subversion to Simply Obscure: Maryknoll Women Religious in Guatemala, 1953-1967

Svenja Blanke: Civic Foreign Policy: Human Rights, Faith-Based Groups, and U.S. Salvadoran Relations in the 1970s

Document: Pedro Ajequiezcane's letter on commercial matters, July 1806, by Adrian J. Pearce

Julie A. Charlip: Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880-1930, reviewed by Aldo Lauria Santiago

Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero, eds.: After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas, reviewed by Rick López

Patricia Seed: American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches, reviewed by James Krippner

D. Graham Burnett: Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado, reviewed by Jordana Dym

Thomas Krüggeler and Ulrich Mücke, eds.: Muchas Hispanoaméricas. Antropología, historia y enfoques culturales en los estudios latinoamericanistas, reviewed by Vincent C. Peloso

Alex D. Krieger: We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Across North America, reviewed by Nancy P. Hickerson

Suzanne Austin Alchon: A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective, reviewed by David J. Robinson

Abril Trigo: Memorias migrantes: testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya, reviewed by Jorge Bracamonte

Avraham Milgram: Entre la aceptación y el rechazo: América Latina y los refugiados judíos del nazismo, reviewed by Allen Wells

Maria de los Angeles Torres, ed.: By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys In and Out of Exile, reviewed by Denis Jorge Berenschot

Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, eds.: What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America, reviewed by Carlos A. Parodi

Javier Auyero: Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition, reviewed by Georgette Magassy Dorn

David Maybury-Lewis: The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States, reviewed by René Harder Horst

Norman E. Whitten, ed.: Millennial Ecuador: Critical essays on cultural transformations and social dynamics, reviewed by Sarah A. Radcliffe

Josefina Zoraida Vázquez, ed.: El establecimiento del federalismo en México (1821-1827), reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

José Antonio Serrano Ortega: Jerarquía territorial y transición politica: Guanajuato, 1790-1836, reviewed by Keith W. Cox

David G. LaFrance: Revolution in Mexico’s Heartland: Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla, 1913-1920, reviewed by Andrew Paxman

Patience A. Schell: Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City, reviewed by Kristina A. Boylan

Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber: The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth, reviewed by Richard Weiner

William R. Summerhill: Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913, reviewed by Douglas Cole Libby

Jorge Lora and Carlos Mallorquin, eds.: Prebisch y Furtado: El estructuralismo latinoamericano, reviewed by Anil Hira

Evan S. Lieberman: Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa, reviewed by Steven Topik

Julio Moreno: Yankee Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950, reviewed by Stephen R. Niblo

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg: Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas, reviewed by Paul Dosal

Joseph A. Stout: Schemers & Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848-1921, reviewed by Richard Francaviglia

Kenneth N. Owens, ed.: Riches For All: The California Gold Rush and the World, reviewed by Kevin Starr

Edward F. Ronstadt: Borderman: Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt, reviewed by Eric V. Meeks

Arnoldo de León: Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890, reviewed by Elliott Young

José F. Buscaglia-Salgado: Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean, reviewed by Fernando Valerio-Holguín

Verene A. Shepherd, ed.: Slavery Without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century, reviewed by Matt D. Childs

Jason M. Yaremko: U.S. Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro, reviewed by Deborah Baldwin

Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds.: The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, reviewed by John J. Dwyer

Rafael Hernández: Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society, reviewed by Ana Serra

James H. Sweet: Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African Portuguese World, 1441-1770, reviewed by Kathleen J. Higgins

Michael P. Carroll: The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico, reviewed by Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Max Harris: Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance, reviewed by Andrew G. Wood

Gabino La Rosa Corzo: Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression, reviewed by Dale T. Graden

Ton Salman and Annelies Zoomers, eds.: Imaging the Andes: Shifting Margins of a Marginal World, reviewed by Gregory Knapp

Nicholas A. Robins: Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru: The Great Rebellion of 1780-82, reviewed by David Cahill

Max Paul Friedman: Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II, reviewed by Jürgen Buchenau

Steven Schwartzberg: Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years, reviewed by Alan McPherson

Jean Franco: The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War, reviewed by Regina Root

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo: The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, reviewed by Gareth Williams

Victoria Sanford: Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, reviewed by Michael Dodson

Manuela Cantón Delgado: Bautizados en Fuego: Protestantes, discursos de conversíon y política en Guatemala (1989-1993), reviewed by Abigail E. Adams

Jennifer Schirmer: The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy, reviewed by Bruce J. Calder

John Holloway: Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, reviewed by Scott Schaffer

Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter S. Cleaves, Gary Gereffi, and Jonathan Hartlyn: Latin America in the 21st Century. Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Donald Hodges and Ross Gandy: Mexico Under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism, reviewed by Jean Mayer

Yemile Mizrahi: From Martyrdom to Power: The Partido Acción Nacional in Mexico, reviewed by Roderic Ai Camp

Caroline C. Beer: Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico, reviewed by Kathleen Bruhn

Fabrice E. Lehoucq and Ivan Molina: Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica, reviewed by John A. Booth

Liza Bakewell and Byron Hamann: Mesolore: Exploring Mesoamerican Culture, reviewed by Matthew Restall

Jessica Joyce Christie, ed.: Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach, reviewed by Allen J. Christenson

Gary H. Gossen: Four Creations: An Epic Story of the Chiapas Mayas, reviewed by James M. Taggart

Documentary Films

Jorge Wolney Attala, director: In Cane for Life, reviewed by Aviva Chomsky

Ernest Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd, directors: Choropampa: The Price of Gold, reviewed by Marshall C. Eakin

Eva Urrutia and Guillermina Buzio, directors: Through Your Eyes (A Traves de Tus Ojos), reviewed by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg

John Smihula, director: Hidden in Plain Sight, reviewed by Glen D. Kuecker

Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo, directors: Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos, reviewed by Elizabeth Fussell