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Volume 56 October  1999 Number 2

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Thomas Krüggeler: Indians, Workers, and the Arrival of Modernity: Cuzco, Peru, 1895-1924

Peter S. Linder: "An Immoral Speculation": Indian Forced Labor on the Hacienda of Venezuela's Sur Del Lago Zuliano, 1880-1936

Elizabeth W. Kiddy: Ethnic and Racial Identity in the Brotherhoods of the Rosary of Minas Gerais, 1700-1830

Keith Brewster: Militarism and Ethnicity in the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico


Book Reviews

Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds.: The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, reviewed by Silvia Marina Arrom

Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo Walker, eds.: The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature: Volume I: Discovery to Modernism, reviewed by Judith Ewell

Jeffrey Klaiber, S. J.: Iglesia, Dictaduras y democracia en América latina, reviewed by Michael Fleet

Stephen C. Rabe: The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America, reviewed by Mark T. Gilderhus

William M. Leogrande: Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, reviewed by Harold Molineu

Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. Legrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore, eds.: Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S. Latin American Relations, reviewed by Eric Zolov

Howard Johnson: The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933, reviewed by Selwyn H. H. Carrington

Philip A. Howard: Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century, reviewed by Ben Vinson III

Hendrik Kraay, ed.: Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s to 1990s, reviewed by Mieko Nishida

Enrique Florescano: The Myth of Quetzalcoatl, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Matthew Restall: The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850, reviewed by John F. Schwaller

Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart, eds. and trans.: The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso De La Vega's "Huei tlamahuiçolti" of 1649, reviewed by Frances Karttunen

Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, eds.: The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest, reviewed by John R. Hébert

Luz María Hernández Sáenz: Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767 1831, reviewed by Donald F. Stevens

Silvestre Villegas Revueltas: El Liberalismo moderado en México, 1852-1864, reviewed by Will Fowler

Douglass Sullivan-González: Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871, reviewed by Brian Connaughton

Virginia Garrard-Burnett: Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem, reviewed by Deborah Baldwin

Anne Rubenstein: Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, reviewed by William E. French

Kevin Gosner and Arij Ouweneel, eds.: Indigenous Revolts in Chiapas and the Andean Highlands, reviewed by Thomas Benjamin

Michael E. Stanfield: Red Rubber Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933, reviewed by Jane M. Rausch

Marcos Cueto: El Regreso de las epidemias: Salud y sociedad en el Perú del siglo XX, reviewed by Ronn Pineo

John Mayo and Simon Collier, eds.: Mining in Chile's Norte Chico: Journal of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830, reviewed by Luis Valenzuela

Michael Monteón: Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927-1948, reviewed by Thomas Klubock

John Hickman: News from the End of the Earth: A Portrait of Chile, reviewed by Paul Drake

Susan Menéndez: En búsqueda de las mujeres: Percepciones sobre género, trabajo y sexualidad. Buenos Aires, 1900-1930, reviewed by Asuncion Lavrin


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