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Volume 48 - July 1991

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Haiti: The Breached Citadel. By Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. xxxi, 217. Maps. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Index. $34.00.)

The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. By Johannes Menne Postma. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 428. Tables. Figures. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $54.50.)

Haiti: A Research Handbook. By Robert Lawless. [Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol. 546.] (New York: Garland Publishing, Co., 1990. Pp. 354. Creole index. Author index. $48.00.)

Colonial British Caribbean Newspapers. A Bibliography and Directory. Compiled by Howard S. Pactor. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 144. Selected Sources. Newspaper Index. Editor Index. $45.00)

Haiti, State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990. Pp. 282. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth: $28.00; Paper: $12.00)

Orígenes de la democracia argentina: El trasfondo krausista. Compiled by Hugo Biagini. (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 1989. Pp. 328. Index. Notes. No price.)

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Index to Volume XLVIII: July, 1991 through April, 1992

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The Problem of Order in Changing Societies. Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, 1750-1940. Edited by Lyman L. Johnson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 161. Index. Photos. Figures. Tables. Notes. No price.)

A Hemisphere Apart. The Foundations of United States Policy toward Latin America. By John J. Johnson. [The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History 15.] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 271. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

Argentina Between the Great Powers, 1939-1946. Edited by Guido di Tella and D. Cameron Watts. [Pitt Latin American Series.] (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Pp. xiv, 212. Maps. Notes. References. Index. $39.95.)

The Heritage of the Conquistadores: Ruling Classes in Central America from the Conquest to the Sandinistas. By Samuel Z. Stone. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Pp. x, 241. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

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California in 1792: A Spanish Naval Visit. By Donald C. Cutter. [American Exploration and Travel 71.] (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 176. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $24.95.)

The Independence of Mexico and the Creation of the New Nation. Edited by Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1989. Pp. xiv, 374. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979. By Jeffrey L. Gould (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 377. Appendices. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Photos. $47.50.)

British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960. By Marshall C. Eakin. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989. Pp. xxiii, 333. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $47.50.)

Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast Brazil: Juazeiro and Petrolina in Transition. By Ronald H. Chilcote. [Cambridge Latin American Studies 69.] (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 383. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Appendix. $64.50.)

The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature, Popular Culture, and Politics. By Patrick Taylor. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 251. Notes. Index. $29.95.)

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