Aaron P. Althouse: Contested Mestizos, Alleged Mulattos: Racial Identity and Caste Hierarchy in Eighteenth Century Pátzcuaro, Mexico

William C. Van Norman, Jr.: The Process of Cultural Change Among Cuban Bozales during the Nineteenth Century

Gertrude Yeager: Religion, Gender Ideology and the Training of Female Public Elementary School Teachers in Nineteenth Century Chile

Paulo Drinot: Food, Race and Working-Class Identity: "Restaurantes Populares" and Populism in 1930s Peru

Michael T. Ducey: A Nation of Villages: Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750-1850, reviewed by Eric Van Young

Catholicism and Religious Practices

James Muldoon: The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas, reviewed by Susan Schroeder

Cynthia L. Stone: In Place of Gods and Kings: Authorship and Identity in the Relación de Michoacán, reviewed by James Krippner

José Comblin (translated & edited by Phillip Berryman): People of God, reviewed by Anna L. Peterson

Indigenous Politics

Nicholas P. Higgins: Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion: Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian, reviewed by Scott Schaffer

Literature and Culture

Nancy Vogeley, ed.: Un manuscrito inédito de Poesías de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi: Estudio de la literatura en manuscrito en el México de la Independencia, reviewed by Alejandro Cortazar

Anna Brickhouse: Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, reviewed by Caroline Levander

Debra J. Rosenthal: Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building, reviewed by Nancy E. Castro

Persephone Braham: Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico, reviewed by Manuel Medina

Mark Pedelty: Musical Ritual in Mexico City: From the Aztec to NAFTA, reviewed by Andrew G. Wood

Markets and Economic Globalization

Stuart B. Schwartz, ed.: Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680, reviewed by Frank "Trey" Proctor III

Marcus J. Kurtz: Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside, reviewed by Mark Eric Williams

Nation Building and Nationalism

Raymond B. Craib: Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, reviewed by Mauricio Tenorio Trillo

Heraclio Bonilla and Gustavo Montañez, eds.: Colombia and Panamá: La metamorfosis de la nación en el siglo XX, reviewed by Mary Roldán

Thomas L. Whigham: The Paraguayan War. Vol. 1. Causes and Early Conduct, reviewed by Vera Blinn Reber

Politics and Governance

Michael J. Ard: An Eternal Struggle: How the National Action Party Transformed Mexican Politics, reviewed by Aaron W. Navarro

Luis Rubio and Susan Kaufman Purcell: Mexico Under Fox, reviewed by Judith Adler Hellman

Guillermo O’Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, eds.: The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications, reviewed by Anthony W. Pereira

Katrina Burgess: Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy, reviewed by Volker Frank

Urban Social History

Carlos Aguirre: The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935, reviewed by Kristin Ruggiero

Zephyr L. Frank: Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, reviewed by Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Daniel Goldstein: The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, reviewed by Nancy Postero

U.S.-Latin American Relations

Richard Gott: Cuba: A New History, reviewed by Philip Brenner