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La Minería Mexicana de la Colonia al Siglo XX. By Inés Herrera Canales. San Juan Mixcoac, México: Instituto Mora, 1998. Pp. 271. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $90 (New Pesos) paper.

Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940. Edited by Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 507. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Edited by Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. vi, 404. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

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From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest. By Robert H. Jackson. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Pp. xvii, 151. Illustrations. Bibliographical Essay. Index. $49.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America. By David J. McCreery. Armonk: M. E. Sharp, 2000. Pp. ix, 209. Notes. Sources and Additional Readings. Index. $62.00 cloth.

Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750. By Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 202. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00 cloth.

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The Places of History; Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Edited by Doris Sommer. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 310. Illustrations. Index. $50.00 cloth.

Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands. Edited and translated by Lawrence H. Feldman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 269. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Works Cited. Index. $54.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

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New Views of Borderlands History. Edited by Robert H. Jackson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 242. Illustrations. Maps. Index. $40.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. 305. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth.

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xx, 245. Maps. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth; 17.95 paper.

Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico 1795-1853. By Will Fowler. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 308. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $69.50 cloth.

Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876. By Terry Rugeley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xxvii, 335. Photos. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $26.95 paper.

Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. By Guy R.C. Thomson, with David G. LaFrance. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999. Pp. xviii, 420. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. By Robert M. Buffington. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 239. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographic Essay. Index. $50.00 cloth; $22.00 paper.

Rumours of Wars: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Edited by Rebecca Earle. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000. Pp. xii, 195. Tables. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $19.95 paper.

La fortaleza docta. Elite letrada y dominación social en México colonial (siglos XVI-XVII). By Magdalena Chocano Mena. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra, 2000. Pp. 415. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.

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