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Volume 51 - Issue 3 - January 1995

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Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day. An Anthology. Edited by Peter Hulme & Neil L. Whitehead. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 369. Illustrations. Note. References. Sources. Index. $65.00.)

The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. By Valerie I.J. Flint. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xx, 233. Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498. By Rebecca Catz. [Contributions to the Study of World History, No. 39.] (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. Pp. viii, 133. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. By Jeanette Favrot Peterson. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 224. Plates. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. References. Index. $37.50.)

The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos. Edited by S.L. Cline. [UCLA Latin American Studies, vol. 81.] (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1993. Pp. xi, 313. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. $18.95.)

Los Encomenderos de Quito, 1534-1660: Origen y Evolutión de una Elite Colonial. By Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse. (Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos [C.S.I.C.], 1993. Pp. xvi, 377. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Pirates and Privateers of the Caribbean. By Jenifer Marx. (Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. Pp. x, 310. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

Ensayos sobre historia latinoamericana: Enfoques, conceptos y métodos. By Magnus Mörner. [Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, Volume 37.] (Quito, Ecuador: Corporatión Editora Nacional, 1992. Pp. 245. Notes. Tables. Illustrations. Bibliographies. No price.)

The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. By Roderick A. McDonald. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 339. Tables. Appendices. Sources. Index. $39.95.)

Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979. By John Major. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 432. Map. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

The Regime of Anastasio Somoza: 1936-1956. By Knut Walter. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. xx, 303. Map. Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index $49.95.)

Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944. By Paul J. Dosal. [Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture.] (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1993. Pp. xi, 248. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

Guatemalan Politics: The Popular Struggle for Democracy. By Robert H. Trudeau. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1993. xii, 220. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

Judaica Latinoamericana: Estudios Histórico-Sociales II. Edited by AMILAT. (Jerusalem: Editorial Universitaria Magnes. 1993. Pp. 298. Notes. Tables. No price.)

Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Edna Acosta-Belén and Christine E. Bose. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. x, 201. Bibliographies. Indices. $29.50.)

Where the Boys are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of the New Left. By Van Gosse. [The Haymarket Series.] (New York: Verso, 1993. Pp. xi, 270. Notes. Photographs. Appendix. Index. $18.95.)

The Central American Peace Process, 1983-1991: Sheathing Swords, Building Confidence. By Jack Child. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1992. Pp. xiv, 200. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Biliography. Index. No price.)

The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War. Edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz, and Augusto Varas. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 328. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

Bolivia & Coca: A Study in Dependency. By James Painter. [Studies on the Impact of the Illegal Drug Trade.] (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1994. pp. xiv, 194. Tables. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

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