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Volume 62 - Issue 4 - April 2006

Latino/Border Studies

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Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity. By Gilda L. Ochoa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. pp. x, 272. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Literary/Cultural Studies

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Un viaje sin fin. Teatro mexicano hoy. Edited by Heindrun Adler and Jaime Chabaud. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Verveurt, 2004. Pp. 238. Bibliography. $24.00 paper.

Memoria, duelo y narración. Chile después de Pinochet: literature, cine, sociedad. Edited by Roland Spiller, Titus Heydenreich, Walter Hoefler and Sergio Vergara. Frankfurt: Vervuert Verlag, 2004. Pp. 334.

Intoxicated Identities: Alcohol’s Power in Mexican History and Culture. By Tim Mitchell. New York: Routledge, 2004. pp. vii, 216. Bibliography. $23.95 paper.

Transatlantic Topographies: Islands, Highlands, Jungles. By Ileana Rodríguez. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. pp. xix, 265. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. $68.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire. By Gretchen Murphy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. pp. xi, 195. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Medical History

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Entre médicos y curanderos: Cultura, historia y enfermedad en la América Latina moderna. Edited by Diego Armus. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2002. Pp. 455. Notes.

El Valor de la Salud: Historia de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. By Marcos Cueto. Washington, D.C.: Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2004. pp. viii, 211. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Nation Building/Nationalism

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Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. pp. xii, 386. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Crafting the Republic: Lima’s Artisans and Nation-Building in Peru, 1821-1879. By Iñigio García-Bryce. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. pp. xv, 220. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. By Steve J. Stern. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. 280. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. $29.95 cloth.

Political Economy/Globalization

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Comercio y emigración en América en el siglo XVIII. By Manuel Hernández González. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ediciones Idea, 2004. Pp. 208. Notes.

Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues. By Kenneth Maxwell. New York: Routledge, 2003. pp. xxi, 336. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. $27.95 paper.

Mexico in Transition: Neoliberal Globalism, the State and Civil Society. Edited by Gerardo Otero. London: Zed Books, 2004. pp. x, 274. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism. By George Gmelch. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. pp. x, 211. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $19.95 paper.

Politics/Governance

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Los hombres del poder en Michoacán, 1924-1962. By Verónica Oikión Solano. Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2004. Pp. 588. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Tiburcio Carías: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader. By Thomas J. Dodd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. pp. xvii, 268. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth.

Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe. Edited by Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. pp. x, 350. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $60.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. By John D. French. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. pp. xviii, 233. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Religion/Religious Practices

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Volume 62 - Issue 4 - April 2006

Latino/Border Studies

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