The Americas

Volume 68 April 2012 Number 4

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CONTENTS

Marc Eagle: Beard-Pulling and Furniture-Rearranging: Conflict within the Seventeenth-Century Audiencia of Santo Domingo

Yuko Miki: Fleeing into Slavery: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880-1881

Stephen J. C. Andes: A Catholic Alternative to Revolution: The Survival of Social Catholicism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Eric Van Young: Bandits, Elvis, and Other Mystics: An Interview with Paul Vanderwood


BOOK REVIEWS

Oliver J. Dinius, Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964, reviewed by John D. French

NATION-BUILDING AND NATIONALISM

William H. Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan, Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946: An Introduction, reviewed by Frank J. Klackle

Stanley E. Blake, The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil, reviewed by Jerry Dávila

HISTORY AND MEMORY

Paul Gillingham, Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico, reviewed by Eric Van Young

Macarena Gómez-Barris, Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, reviewed by Roberto Castillo Sandoval

CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES

Michael V. Wilcox, The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact, reviewed by Susan Schroeder

Idelber Avelar and Christopher Dunn, eds. , Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship, reviewed by Darien Lamen

Seth D. Kunin, Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews, reviewed by Frances Levine

Jeffrey Middents, Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru, reviewed by Beatriz Urraca

GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY

Marcello Carmagnani, The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization, reviewed by Arthur Schmidt

Mario Blaser, Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond, reviewed by Alberto Arce

Florence E. Babb, The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories, reviewed by Arlene Davila

Molly Todd, Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War, reviewed by Ellen Moodie

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950, reviewed by Themis Chronopoulos

Laura Lomas, Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities, reviewed by Debra A. Castillo

Peter J. Kastor, William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns, reviewed by Lina Del Castillo

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Eduardo Elena, Dignifying Argentina: Peronism, Citizenship, and Mass Consumption, reviewed by Matthew B. Karush

Roger A. Kittleson, The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845?1895, reviewed by Elizabeth A. Kuznesof

Adam Warren, Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, reviewed by Paula S. De Vos

RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Carlos Mondragón, Like Leaven in the Dough: Protestant Social Thought in Latin America, 1920-1950, reviewed by Karla Ann Koll

 


 

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