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The US South's View of Latin America - A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America. By Claire M. Wolnisty. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Pp. xviii, 159. $50.00 cloth; $50.00 e-book.

History of the Baratillo - Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City. By Andrew Konove. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 283. Appendix. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Franciscan-Indigenous Confraternities - Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan-Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1527–1700. By Laura Dierksmeier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 238. $55.00 cloth.

Colonial Festivals and Loyalty - Colonial Loyalties: Celebrating the Spanish Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Lima. By María Soledad Barbón. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. Pp. 264. $55.00 cloth.

New Granada and Science - Ojos en el cielo, pies en la Tierra: mapas, libros e instrumentos en la vida del sabio Caldas. Edited by José Antonio Amaya and Ivàn Felipe Suàrez Lozano. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura, Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2018. Pp. 138. $21.00 paper.

Mapmaking in Colonial Mexico - Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain. By Ana Pulido Rull. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. x, 258. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Missionaries in Bourbon Peru - In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru. By Cameron D. Jones. Stanford and Oceanside: Stanford University Press and Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018. Pp. 223. $65.00 cloth.

Public Health in Porfirian Mexico - Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City. By Jonathan M. Weber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. xiii, 274. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Mapping Spanish and Portuguese South America - Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America. By Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 259. $24.95 paper.

New Granada and Independence - Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgents, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela. By Cristina Soriano. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. 316. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper.

Prostitution in Peru - The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s. By Paulo Drinot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 313. $99.99 cloth; $31.99 paper.

Atlantic Slave War - Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. By Vincent Brown. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 cloth.

Spanish Pacific - The Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815. A Reader of Primary Sources. Edited by Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 249. $117.00 cloth.

Maps and Mapmaking Techniques - Mapping an Atlantic World, Circa 1500. By Alida C. Metcalf. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 256. $54.95 cloth.

Anti-Racist Struggle - Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Peter Wade, James Scorer, and Ignacio Aguiló. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2019. Pp. 220. $32.00 paper; $26.00 e-book; free pdf.

Independence - Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives. Edited by Gabriel Paquette and Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia. New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp 260. $140.00 cloth; $24.98 e-book.

Medicine, Religion, and Women's History - Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire. By Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 152. $15.99. E-book.

Comparative Legal History of Slavery - Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. By Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 281. $24.95 cloth.

Reinterpreting Haitian History - The Haitians: A Decolonial History. By Jean Casimir. Translated by Laurent Dubois. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 452. $34.95 paper.

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