Cynthia Radding: Crosses, Caves and Matachinis: Divergent Appropriations of Catholic Discourse in Northwestern New Spain

Erick Ching : In Search of the Party: The Communist Party, the Comintern, and the Peasant Rebellion of 1932 in El Salvador

Rosemarie M. McNairn: Baiting the British Bull: A Fiesta, Trials, and a Petition in Belize

Charles F. Walker: The Patriotic Society: Discussions and Omissions About Indians in the Peruvian War of Independence

Archival Report: Small Particulars: Variant Titles and Dates To the Manuscript of Fray Diego Durán, by John R. Hébert and Abby L. Forgang

Herbert S. Klein: The American Finances of the Spanish Empire: Royal Income and Expenditures in Colonial Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, 1680-1809, reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien

John R. Fisher: The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492-1810, reviewed by Jeremy Baskes

Lynn Stephen: Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power From Below, reviewed by Heidi Tinsman

Ricardo D. Salvatorre and Carlos Aguirre, eds.: The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940, reviewed by Donald F. Stevens

Esther Pasztory: Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living, reviewed by Susan Kellogg

Herbert J. Nickel: El peonaje en las haciendas mexicanas: Interpretaciones, fuentes, hallazgos, reviewed by David W. Walker

Reynaldo Sordo Cedeño: El Congreso en la Primera República Centralista, reviewed by Timothy E. Anna

Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, eds.: Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell

William A. Depalo, Jr.: The Mexican Army, 1822-1852, reviewed by Josefina Zoraida Vázquez

Josefina Zoraida Vázquez: La Intervención norteamericana 1846-1848, reviewed by Barbara A. Tenenbaum

Peter Lester Reich: Mexico's Hidden Revolution: The Catholic Church in Law and Politics since 1929, reviewed by Linda Arnold

Manuel P. Maza Miquel, S. J.: El Clero cubano y La Independencia: Las investigaciones de Francisco González de Valle, 1881-1942, reviewed by José García Leduc

Anthony G. Coates, ed.: Central America: A Natural and Cultural History, reviewed by E. Jeffrey Stann

Donna Keyse Rudolph and G. A. Rudolph, eds.: Historical Dictionary of Venezuela. Second Edition, reviewed by Judith Ewell

Mark Thurner: From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru, reviewed by David S. Parker

David Nugent: Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935, reviewed by Peter F. Klarén

Philip Mauceri: State Under Siege: Development and Policy Making in Peru, reviewed by David Scott Palmer

Alison Brysk: The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change, and Democratization, reviewed by Winthrop R. Wright

Paul W. Drake: Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective, reviewed by Kevin J. Middlebrook

Jonathan C. Brown: Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979, reviewed by Ronn Pineo

Anthony W. Marx: Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil, reviewed by Kim D. Butler