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La sociedad colonial en Guatemala: estudios regionales y locales. Edited by Stephen Webre. (Antigua, Guatemala: Centra de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica; South Woodstock, VT: Plumstock Mesoamerican Studies, c. 1989. Pp. xiii, 272. Bibliography. Index. $16.50.)

Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899. Edited by Louis A. PérezJr. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1992. Pp. xxvi, 259. Bibliographic essay. Index. $40.00.)

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Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros. Criminalidad y violencia en el Perú, siglos xviii-xx. Edited by Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker. (Lima: Instituto de Apoyo Agrario, 1990. Pp. 393. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No price.)

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The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself. By David Bushnell. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. x, 334. Illustrations. Table. Appendices. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. $42.00.)

Vingt Etudes sur le Mexique et le Guatemala: Réunies à la mémoire de Nicole Percheron. By Alain Breton, Jean-Pierre Berthe, and Sylvie Lecoin. [Collection Hespérides.] (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail-Toulouse, 1991. Pp. 381. Maps. Tables. Figures. References. No price.)

Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916. By Todd A. Diacon. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 199. $42.50.)

The Early Colombian Labor Movement: Artisans and Politics in Bogotá, 1832-1919. By David Sowell. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 269. Map. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $44.95.)

The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname. By Wim S.M. Hoogbergen. (Leiden: E.J. Brill Publishers, 1990. Pp. xvii, 254. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. $60.00.)

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Brazil and the World System. Edited by Richard Graham. [Critical Reflections on Latin American Series.] (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp. ix, 123. Bibliography. Index. $22.50.)

Shining Path of Peru. Edited by David Scott Palmer. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 270. Maps. Photograph. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $45.00.)

Transport Modernization and Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Cisneros & Friends. By Hernán Horna. [Studia Historica Upsaliensia 189.] (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1992. Pp. 189. Maps. Photograph. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. By Terence N. D'Altroy. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 272. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

Cultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World. Edited by Mary Elizabeth Perry and Anne J. Cruz. [UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.] (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. xvi, 288. Figures. Index. $34.95.)

Prophesying Upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39. By Gene A. Sessions. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Pp. xiv, 149. Photographs. Notes. Index. $24.95.)

Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. By Walter Nugent. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi, 234. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. $29.95.)

Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness. By Ranis Peter. [Pitt Latin American Series.] (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 313. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 49.95.)

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