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Latino/Border Studies

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La Llorona’s Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. By Luis D. León. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 320. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church. By Lara Medina. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 232. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.50 cloth.

Mayas from Morgantown: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. By Leon Fink. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 254. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $34.95 cloth; $17.95 paper.

Literary/Cultural Studies

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Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Literature. By Robert D. Aguirre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. 296. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915. By R. Tripp Evans. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 216. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Poesía concreta brasileña: las vanguardias en la encrucijada modernista. By Gonzalo Aguilar. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2003. Pp. 448. Illustrations. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography.

Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts. By Tamara L. Underiner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 203. Notes. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature. By Christopher B. Conway. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. xii, 192. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

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Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History. By Richard Lee Turits. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 384. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Las redes intelectuales centroamericanas: un siglo de imaginarios nacionales (1820-1920). By Marta Elena Casaús Arzú and Teresa García Giráldez . Guatemala: F&G Editores, 2005. Pp. vii, 325. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.40 paper.

Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940. By Alejandra Bronfman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 234. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930. By Todd A. Diacon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 228. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. By Alexander S. Dawson. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 222. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Our Brazil Awake! The Acção Integralista Brasileira and the Failed Quest for a Fascist Order in the 1930s. By Marcus Klein. Amsterdam: Cuadernos del Cedla, 2004. Pp. ix, 110. Map. Notes. Bibliography. €10 paper.

Politics/Governance

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That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico 1697-1700. Edited by John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Pp. 487. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Works Cited. Index. $60.00 cloth.

Invención del sistema político mexicano: Forma de gobierno y gobernabilidad en México en el siglo XIX. By Luis Medina Peña. Mexico City: Fondo Cultura Económica, 2005. Pp. 415. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography.

Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil. By David Samuels. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 264. Illustrations. Tables. Appendices. Notes. References. Indices. $65.00 cloth.

Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru: The Rise of the Partido Civil. By Ulrich Muecke. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $39.95 cloth.

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Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas. By Linda B. Hall. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 382. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Religion/Religious Practices

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El cristianismo en el espejo indígena. Religiosidad en el occidente de Sierra Gorda, siglo XVIII. By Gerardo Lara Cisneros. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2002. Pp. 257. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography.

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