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Volume 63 - Issue 3 - January 2007

Economic History

Book Reviews

Chimneys in the Desert: Industrialization in Argentina During the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930. By Fernando Rocchi. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, Pp. xviii, 394. Tables. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00 cloth.

Ethnohistory/Indigenous Politics

Book Reviews

Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Edited by Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2003. Pp. x, 429. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00 cloth.

Moctezuma’s Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700. By Donald Chipman. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 200. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca. By Robert Haskett. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 420. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95 cloth.

Yaxcabá and the Caste War of Yucatán: An Archaeological Perspective. By Rani T. Alexander. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 207. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.50 cloth.

Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia. Estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI-XX. Edited by Paulo Drinot and Leo Garofalo. Lima: Instituo de Estudios Peruanos, 2005. pp. 379. Tables. Map. Notes. Bibliography.

From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859. By F. Todd Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xviii, 320. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95 cloth.

Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan. By Paul Sullivan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Pp. 272. Map. Notes. Index. $29.00 cloth.

Gender Studies

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Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas. By Karen Kampwirth. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 279. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.00 paper.

Nation Building/Nationalism

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English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. By Oliver Marshall. Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2005. Pp. xii, 323. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $38.00 paper.

The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940. Edited by Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 363. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.

To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. By Louis A. Pérez Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 463. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean. By Colin A. Palmer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 354. Illustration. Tables. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 cloth.

Politics/Governance

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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. By J. H. Elliott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 546. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 cloth.

Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. By Kris Lane. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 292. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750). By Tamar Herzog. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. x, 307. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth.

Religion/Religious Practices

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Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New. By Daniel T. Reff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 290. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth; $21.99 paper.

Rural Social History

Book Reviews

A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. By Emilio Kourí. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 389. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth.

Slavery/Diaspora Studies

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Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade. Edited by José C. Curto and Renée Soulodre-La France. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 338. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth; $29.95 paper.

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Volume 63 - Issue 3 - January 2007

Economic History

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Ethnohistory/Indigenous Politics

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Gender Studies

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Nation Building/Nationalism

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Politics/Governance

Book Reviews

Religion/Religious Practices

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Rural Social History

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Slavery/Diaspora Studies

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