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Volume 55 - Issue 1 - July 1998

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Shadows over Anáhuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800. By Arij Ouweneel. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Pp. 429. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $60.00.)

La vida íntima de Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, 1798-1830. By William Lofstrom. (Santafé de Bogotá: Banco de la República/El Ancora Editores, 1996. Pp. 253. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $15.00.)

Forging Mexico, 1821-1835. By Timothy Anna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. 330. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00)

Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. By Wallace Ohrt (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. Pp. 190. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz. By Michael Johns. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. 142. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.00.)

Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940. By Friedrich E. Schuler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pp. 269. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $47.50.)

Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist. By Benjamin Welles. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Pp. 437. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942. By Robert Levine. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. 155. Illustrations. Notes. $59.95.)

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964. By Barbara Weinstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 456. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $59.95.)

Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988. By Michael George Hanchard. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 203. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $29.95.)

Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By Jay Kinsbruner. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 176. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $44.95.)

Peronism Without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. By James McGuire. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 388. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.)

Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation. By Deborah Norden. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. 242. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

The State and Capital in Chile, Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics. By Eduardo Silva. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00.)

Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. By Rosalie Schwartz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. 239. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

The Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the Andes. By Edmundo Morales. (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1995. Pp. xxvii, 177. Illustrations. 46.00.)

Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s. By Deborah Yashar. (Stanford: University of Stanford Press, 1997. Pp. 319. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.50.)

A Holy Alliance? The Church and the Left in Costa Rica, 1933-1948. By Eugene Miller. (London: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. 228. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930. By Lester D. Langley and Thomas Schoonover. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. 219. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $29.95.)

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