Skip to main content Accessibility help

The Americas

A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

Journal Home

Only show content I have access to (0)

Over 3 years (149)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
The Americas
ISSN: 0003-1615

EISSN: 1533-6247

URL: /core/journals/americas
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

The Americas

A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 49 - January 1993

Book Reviews

El papel de la iglesia en la caída de Stroessner. By Miguel Carter. (Asunción: RP ediciones, 1991. Pp. 168. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Patriarch and Folk: The Emergence of Nicaragua 1798-1858. By E. Bradford Burns. (Littleton: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. x, 307. Chronology. Notes. Index. Maps. $39.95.)

Central America and the United States: The Search for Stability. By Thomas Leonard. [The United States and the Americas.] (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 245. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. Map. $35.00.)

The Presidency in Mexican Politics. By George Philip. (New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1992. Pp. viii, 213. Notes. References. Glossary. Index. $59.95.)

Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico: 1886-1986. By Josiah McC. Heyman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 247. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00.)

Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, & Identity, 1930-1960. By Mario T. García. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 364. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

Generations of Settlers: Rural Households and Markets on the Costa Rican Frontier, 1850-1935. By Mario Samper. [DellPlain Latin American Studies, No. 26.] (Boulder: Westview Press, Inc., 1990. Pp. xvii, 286. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

Argentina Between the Great Powers, 1939-1946. [Pitt Latin American Series.] Edited by Guido di Tella and D. Cameron Watts. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Pp. xiv, 212. Maps. Notes. References. Index. $39.95.)

El taita y el toro. By Roland Anrup. (Stockholm: The Institute of Latin American Studies, 1990. Pp. 280. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. No price.)

Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica. By Theodore S. Creedman. (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Pp. xxii, 338. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. No price.)

Land, Labor, & Capital in Modern Yucatán: Essays in Regional History & Political Economy. Edited by Jeffery T. Brannon & Gilbert M. Joseph. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. Pp. x, 322. Chronology. Map. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Glossary Bibliography. Index. $45.95.)

Front Matter

TAM volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Book Reviews

United States Perceptions of Latin America, 1850-1930: A “New West” South of Capricorn. By J. Valerie Fifer. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 203. Notes. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

Judaica Latinoamericana: Estudios Histórico-Sociales. Edited by AMILAT . (Jerusalem: Editorial Universitaria Magnes, Universidad Hebrea, 1988. Pp. 266. Index. References. Notes. $18.00.)

Argentina's “Dirty War”: An Intellectual Biography. By Donald C. Hodges. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 387. List of Acronyms. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.50.)

Front Matter

TAM volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Book Reviews

Signals of War: The Falklands Conflict of 1982. By Lawrence Freedman and Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxxvi, 476. Maps, Dramatispersonae. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.OO, Cloth; $14.95, Paper.)

The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System. By Thomas D. Schoonover (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 253. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Sources. Index. $32.50.)

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. By Piero Gleijesis. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 430. Illustrations. Figures. List of Abbreviations. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

The Americas

A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 49 - January 1993

Book Reviews

Front Matter

Book Reviews

Front Matter

Book Reviews