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Volume 54 - January 1998

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On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield. By Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey G. Mauck. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. Pp. 227. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. No Price.)

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara Tenenbaum, editor-in-chief. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 5 vols. Illustrations. Appendices. Index. No Price.)

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Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers: The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-Century Peru. By Rafael Varón Gabai and trans. by Javier Flores Espinoza. (Norman: Universitiy of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. 352. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.)

Los Capitalistas. Hispano Merchants and the Santa Fe Trade. By Susan Calafate Boyle. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Pp. 236. Notes. Appendix. Index. Bibliography. No Price.)

The Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume I, North America, parts 1 and 2. Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 1,064. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographical Essays. Index. $99.95.)

Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 406. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.)

Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks. 2 vols. Elizabeth Hill Boone, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996. Pp. 497. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $150.00.)

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. By Jeffery M. Paige. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 322. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Index. $45.00.)

Latin America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to Methods and Analysis. Peter H. Smith, ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. 328. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Bibliography. $17.95.)

El Crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, Siglo XVIII. By Gisela Von Wobeser. (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1994. Pp. 275. Notes. Documentary Appendix. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

Twin City Tales. A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichén Itzá. By Lindsay Jones. (Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1995. Pp. 482. Illustrations. Index. No Price.)

The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Walter D. Mignolo, ed. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. 426. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.50.)

Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America. Walter Little and Eduardo Posada-Carbó, eds. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. 314. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95.)

Interpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972. By Dario A. Euraque. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 242. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. By Lester D. Langley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. 374. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856. Elborg Forster, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. 322. Index. $55.00.)

Y se armó el tole tole: Tributo indígena y movimientos sociales en el virreinato del Perú, 1784-1814. By Núria Sala i Vila. (Peru: IER José María Arguedas, 1996, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Appendices. No Price.)

Beyond Praetorianism: The Latin American Military in Transition. Richard L. Millett and Michael Gold-Biss, eds. (Miami: North-South Center Press, 1996. Pp. 317. Illustrations Notes. Index. $24.95.)

Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old México. By Hugh Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Pp. 812. Illustrations. Index. No Price.)

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