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Volume 60 - Issue 4 - April 2004

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Der Heiratsmarkt im kolonialen Uruguay. Geschlechterbeziehungen in einer Grenzregion Spanisch-Amerikas, 1727–1810. By Bernd Schröter. Historamericana, 11. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2001. Pp. 327. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. No price.

Monjas y beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad Barroca Novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII. Edited by Asunción Lavrin and Rosalva Loreto. Mexico: Universidad de Las Américas-Puebla, 2002. Pp. 275. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico. By Raquel Romberg. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 315. Photos. References. Index. $50.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888. By Mieko Nishida. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 255. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete. By Amy Bass. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 438. Notes. Index. $27.95 cloth.

Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945. By Jerry Dávila. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 292. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

The Realities of Images: Imperial Brazil and the Great Drought. By Gerald Greenfield. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 148. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $20.00 paper.

Mexican Murals in Times of Crisis. By Bruce Campbell. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 243. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico. By Ross Hassig. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 220. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Ordinances of Fray Alonso de Molina, OFM. By Barry D. Sell. Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002. Pp. xiii, 187. Index. No price.

Defiance and Deference in Mexico’s Colonial North: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. By Susan M. Deeds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 300. Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Edited by Vincent C. Peloso. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Books, 2003. Pp. xx, 348. Bibliography. Notes. $65.00 cloth; $23.95 paper.

Cuba’s Sugar Industry. By José Alvarez and Lázaro Peña Castellanos. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 160. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. $55.00 cloth.

El Fracaso de los moderados en Cuba: Las Alternativas Reformistas de 1957–1958. By Jorge Renato Ibarra Guitart. La Habana, Cuba: Editora Política, 2000. Pp. 356. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. By Julia E. Sweig. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 254. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 cloth.

Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism and Popular Mobilization in Colombia. By W. John Green. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. xiv, 365. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth.

The Origins of Argentina’s Revolution of the Right. By Alberto Spektorowski. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Pp. x, 269. Notes. Index. $55.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Andrew J. Kirkendall. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 269. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s. By Kent Eaton. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 351. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $58.50 cloth.

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