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Volume 54 - January 1998

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The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond, 1540-1750. By Dauril Alden. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 707. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Bibliographic Note. Index. $75.00.)

West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940. By Aviva Chomsky. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. 302. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

Roots of Identity: Language and Literacy in Mexico. Linda King. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. 193. Illustration. Notes. $37.50.)

Juan Fermin de Aycinena: Central American Colonial Entrepreneur, 1729-1796. By Richmond F. Brown. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 298. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95.)

Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas. By David Howard. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. 259. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

Circuitos mercantiles y mercados en Latinoamérica, siglos XVIII-XIX. Jorge Silva Riquer, Juan Carlos Grosso, and Carmen Yuste, eds. (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora and Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas-UNAM, 1995. Pp. 563. Illustrations. Notes. No Price.)

Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. By Paul Austerlitz. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Pp. 195. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39. By O. Nigel Bolland. (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; London: James Currey Publishers, 1995. Pp. 216. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

The Indian's New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. By James Axtell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 102. Notes. Index. No Price.)

De Navarra a Buenos Aires. By Susana R. Frías and César A. García Belsunce. (Buenos Aires: Instituto Americano de Estudios Vascos, 1996. Pp. 238. Notes. No Price.)

C.L.R. James: A Political Biography. By Kent Worcester. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. 311. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Appendices. $19.95.)

Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order. By Jean Grugel. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 270. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

Los Sismos en la Historia de México. Tomo 1. By Virginia García Acosta and Gerardo Suárez Reynoso. (Mexico City: UNAM; Centro de Investigations y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996. Pp. 718. Illustrations. Bibliography. No Price.)

Remaking the Nation: Place, Identity, and Politics in Latin America. By Sarah Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood. (New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 196. Illustration, Notes. Index $59.95.)

Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690. By Juan Bautista Chapa. William C. Foster, ed. Ned Brierley, trans. (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1997). Pp. xii, 235. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95.)

Cuban Studies 26. Jorge I. Dominguez, ed. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. 320. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $39.95.)

Salud, cultura y sociedad en América Latina. Marcos Cueto, ed. (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanas, 1996. Pp. 253. Appendices. Notes. No Price.)

El cabildo catedral de Valladolid de Michoacán. By Oscar Mazín Gómez (Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, 1996. Pp. 499. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

Passion of the People?: Football in South America. By Tony Mason. (New York: Verso, 1995. Pp. 283. Illustrations. Notes. Index. No Price.)

Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap. By A.W. Maldonado. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997. Pp 262. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

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