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Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change. By Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick. [Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development.] (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 282. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $39.95.)

Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico. A Two-Thousand-Year Perspective. Edited by H.R. Harvey. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 325. Illustrations. Tables. References. Index. $35.00.)

The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing. By Frank J. Lipp. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 253. Figures. Map. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Index. $35.00.)

Pre-Seminole Florida: Spanish Soldiers, Friars, and Indian Missions, 1513-1763. By Robert Allen Matter. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. Pp. x, 191. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. No price.)

Missions to the Calusa. Edited and translated by John H. Hann. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991. Pp. xix, 460. Map. References. Index. $49.95.)

Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788. By Patricia C. Griffin. (Gainesville: University of North Florida Press, 1991. Pp. 219. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $24.95.)

Social Assistance and Bureaucratic Politics: The Montepíos of Colonial Mexico, 1767-1821. By Dewitt S. Chandler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 239. Glossary. Notes. Index. $40.00.)

The Politics of River Trade: Tradition and Development in the Upper Plata, 1780-1870. By Thomas Whigham. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Pp. 274. Maps. Tables. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. $50.00.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969. By Ruth Leacock. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 317. Map. Notes. Index. $30.00.)

Without Fear of Being Happy: Lula, the Workers Party and Brazil. By Emir Sader and Ken Silverstein. (New York: Verso, 1991. Pp. 177. Notes. Appendix. Index. $59.95.)

The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-1990. Edited by Paul W. Drake and Iván Jaksić. [Latin American Studies Series.] (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. Pp. xiv, 321. Tables. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. By Timothy Silver. [Studies in Environment and History.] (Port Chester: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Ppxii, 204. Figures. Index. No price.)

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