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Rebecca Earle: Information and Disinformation in Late Colonial New Granada
 
Lila M. Caimari: Whose Criminals Are These? Church, State, and Patronatos and the Rehabilitation of Female Convicts (Buenos Aires, 1890-1940)
 
Karen Racine: Alberto Masferrer and the Vital Minimum: The Life and Thought of a Salvadoran Journalist, 1868-1932
 
Matthew Restall: Heirs to the Hieroglyphs: Indigenous Writing in Colonial Mesoamerica
 

Book Reviews

Barbara Tenenbaum, editor-in-chief: Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, reviewed by Thomas E. Skidmore

Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn, eds.: The Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume I, North America, parts 1 and 2, reviewed by John H. Hann

Peter H. Smith, ed.: Latin America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to Methods and Analysis, reviewed by Roderic Ai Camp

Walter Little and Eduardo Posada-Carbò, eds.: Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America, reviewed by Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach

Richard L. Millett and Michael Gold-Biss, eds.: Beyond Praetorianism: The Latin American Military in Transition, reviewed by Daniel Masterson

Aviva Chomsky: West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940, reviewed by Roderick A. McDonald

O. Nigel Bolland: On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39, reviewed by William F. Elkins

Jean Grugel: Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order, reviewed by Franklin W. Knight

Virginia García Acosta and Gerardo Suárez Reynoso: Los Sismos en la Historia de México. Tomo 1, reviewed by Barbara A. Tenenbaum

Oscar Mazán Gómez: El cabildo catedral de Valladolid de Michoacán, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Rik Hoekstra: Two Worlds Merging: The Transformation of Society in the Valley of Puebla, 1570-1640, reviewed by James D. Riley

Andrew L. Knaut: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico, reviewed by Sandra Mathews-Lamb

América Molina del Villar: Por voluntad divina: Escasez, epidemias y otras calamidades en la Ciudad de México, 1700-1762; Clara Elena Suárez Argüello: Camino real y carrera larga. La arríera en la Nueva España durante el sivlo XVIII, reviewed by Cynthia Radding

Carlos Illades and Ariel Rodríguez Kuri, eds.: Ciudad de México: Instituciones, actores sociales y conflicto político, 1774-1931, reviewed by Barbara A. Tenenbaum

Sandra Kuntz Ficker: Empresa extranjera y mercado interno: El ferrocarril Central Mexicano, 1880-1907, reviewed by Mark Wasserman

John A. Britton: Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States, reviewed by Don M. Coerver

Emilio Zebadúa: Banqueros y revolucionarios: La soberanía financiera de México, 1914-1929, reviewed by Linda B. Hall

W. Dirk Raat and George R. Janecek: Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge, reviewed by Susan M. Deeds

Charles Walker, ed.: Entre la retorica y la insurgencia: las ideas y los movimientos sociales en los Andes, siglo XVIII, reviewed by Ward Stavig

Pamela S. Murray: Dreams of Development: Colombia's National School of the Mines and its Engineers, 1887-1970, reviewed by Roberta Marx Delson

Ronn F. Pineo: Social Work and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil, reviewed by E. Brooke Harlowe

Joel Wolfe: Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955, reviewed by Talisman Ford

Dale A. Olsen: Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest, reviewed by Marcela Mendoza


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