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Volume 80 - January 2023

Obituary

In Memoriam: Christon I. Archer, 1940–2021

Book Review

Indigenous Christianities in Early Modern Mexico - Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico. By Ben Leeming. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. Pp. 314. $100.00 cloth; $35.95 paper; $29.95 e-book.

Obituary

In Memoriam: Ann Margaret Wightman (1950–2021)

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Dore (1946–2022)

Book Review

Historians of the Society of Jesus Address Race and Slavery - Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530–2020. Edited by Nathaniel Millett and Charles H. Parker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Pp. 286. $65.00 cloth; $65.00 e-book.

Social Landscapes of Resistance in the Colonial Andes - The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru. By Di Hu. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. Pp. 248. $59.95 cloth; $59.95 e-book.

Obituary

In Memoriam: Ray Sadler

Book Review

Afro-Mexico and the Early Caribbean - Joseph M. H. Clark. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii+, 313. $110.00 cloth; $110.00 e-book.

Christianity and Enslavement in Brazil - Paternalism, Transgression and Slave Resistance in Brazil. By Robson Pedrosa Costa. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022. Pp. 208. $99.99 cloth; $99.99 e-book; $99.99 PDF.

Magellan and his Myth - Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan. By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 380. $29.95 cloth; $29.95 e-book.

The Reducción General de Indios on Peru's North Coast - Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast. By Parker Van Valkenburgh. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022. Pp. 328. $65.00 cloth; $65.00 e-book.

Indigenous People and Imperial Politics in the Eastern Caribbean - The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. By Tessa Murphy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2021. Pp. 352. Abbreviations. Notes. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Medicine, Race, and Disease - Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840. By Rana A. Hogarth. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 290. $27.95 paper.

Globalizing Political Economy in Haiti - Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance. By Manuel Covo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $27.95 paper.

Early Modern Catholic Devotion - The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via crucis en mexicano by Fray Augustín de Vetancurt, and the Spread of a Devotion. By John F. Schwaller. Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2022. Pp. x, 262. Illustrations, Appendixes. $45 cloth.

Black Christianity in the Americas - Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians. By Jeroen Dewulf. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $65.00 cloth; $51.99 e-book.

Environmental and Ethnohistories of Colonial Mexico - Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain. By Cynthia Radding. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $100.00 cloth; $35.00 paper; $35.00 e-book

Costa Rica's Transition from Colony to Republic - Costa Rica (1821–2021). De la independencia a su bicentenario. Edited by Iván Molina Jiménez. Editoriales Universitarias Públicas Costarricenses, 2021. Pp. 382. $15.00 paper.

Narratives About Sir Francis Drake - Disputas de altamar. Sir Francis Drake en la polémica española-inglesa sobre las Indias. By María Gracia Ríos Taboada. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2021. Pp. 261. $24.00 paper; $24.00 e-book.

Elite Partisan Conflicts and State-Building in Uruguay - The Pen, the Sword, and the Law: Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay. By David S. Parker. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Pp. 248. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $41.00 cloth; $32.25 e-book.

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