The Americas

Volume 65 April  2009 Number 4

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Special Issue: Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940

Adrian Bantjes: Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Concepts and Typologies

Ben Fallaw: Varieties of Mexican Anticlericalism: Radicalism, Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914-1935

Robert Curley: Anticlericalism and Public Space in Revolutionary Jalisco

Mathew Butler: Sotanas Rojinegras: Catholic Anticlericalism and Mexico's Revolutionary Schism

Benjamin Smith: Anticlericalism, Politics, and Freemasonry in Mexico, 1920-1940

Robert Blancarte: Closing Comment: Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940


BOOK REVIEWS

Cynthia E. Milton: The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador, reviewed by Kendall W. Brown

CULTURAL & LITERARY STUDIES

Mark A. Hernández: Figural Conquistadors: Rewriting the New World’s Discovery and Conquest in Mexican and River Plate Novels of the 1980s and 1990s, reviewed by Ann González

Ana Serra: The "New Man" in Cuba, reviewed by Diana Sorensen

José Quiroga: Cuban Palimpsests, reviewed by Guillermina De Ferrari

ETHNOHISTORY & INDIGENOUS POLITICS

Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk: Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica, reviewed by Camilla Townsend

René Harder D. Horst: The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay, reviewed by Barbara Ganson

FAMILY & GENDER STUDIES

Patty Kelly: Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel, reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss

LATINO & BORDER STUDIES

Judith Adler Hellman: The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place, reviewed by Anthony J. Cortese

MEDICAL HISTORY

Gilberto Hochman and Diego Armus, eds.: Cuidar, controlar, curar. Ensaios históricos sobre saúde e doença na América Latina e Caribe, reviewed by , reviewed by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

POLITICAL ECONOMY & GLOBALIZATION

Nicolás Wey Gómez: The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, reviewed by Noble David Cook

POLITICS & GOVERNANCE

Christoph Rosenmüller: Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702-1710, reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder

Charles F. Walker: Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath, reviewed by Nancy E. Van Deusen

RELIGION & RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Jaime Lara: Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico, reviewed by Jeanette Favrot Peterson

RURAL SOCIAL HISTORY

Gabriel Ondetti: Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil, reviewed by Peter M. Beattie

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Bradley Lynn Coleman: Colombia and the United States: The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960, reviewed by Judith Ewell

Louis A. Pérez, Jr.: Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos, reviewed by Alan McPherson

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Jim Virga and Tula Goenka: El charango, reviewed by Joshua Tucker


 

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