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Volume 78 - October 2021

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Blacks in Argentina - Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic. By Erika Denise Edwards. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. 184. $54.95 cloth.

Cuban Antifascism - No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War. By Ariel Mae Lambe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 310. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90 cloth; $34.95 paper.

Disease Prevention in New Spain - Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason. By Paul Ramírez. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 358. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00 cloth.

Brazilian Citizenship - A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship. By Keila Grinberg. Translated by Kristin M. McGuire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 226. $29.95 paper.

Nineteenth-Century Mapuche - Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile. By Pilar M. Herr. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 168. $65.00 cloth.

Religious Rebellion - Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico's Religionero Rebellion. By Brian A. Stauffer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 329. $75.00 cloth

Political Economy of Food in Cuba - Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba. By Louis A. Pérez Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 264. $29.95 paper.

Liberalism in Mexico - Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900. By Timo H. Schaefer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 243. $99.99 cloth.

Caribbean Environmental History - The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. By Sharika D. Crawford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 216. $29.95 paper.

Hispanism - The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936. By Diana Arbaiza. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 244. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $43.99 eBook.

Belize during Yucatán's Caste War - Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán's Caste War, 1847–1901. By Rajeshwari Dutt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 185. $99.99 cloth.

Revolutions - Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions. By Marc Becker. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Kindle edition. $85.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Revolutionary Mexico - Matters of Reform: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico. By Helga Baitenmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Pp. 342. $60.00 paper.

Tourism in Peru - Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru. By Mark Rice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 233. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Texas-Mexico borderlands - War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880. By Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 487. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth.

Bolivia's Tropical Frontier - Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier since 1952. By Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 342. $90.00 cloth; $37.50 paper; $29.99 e-book.

The Itaipu Dam and Displacement - Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. By Jacob Blanc. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 296. Abbreviations. Note on terminology and orthography. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $104.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.

US-Mexico Borderlands - Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941. By Jessica M. Kim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 304. $29.95 cloth.

Race and Cuban Urbanization - A Cuban City Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century. By Bonnie A. Lucero. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 268. Notes. Bibliography. $54.95 cloth.

Armed Revolutionary Movement - With Masses and Arms: Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. By Miguel La Serna. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 270. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

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