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Labor History of Colonial Bolivia - Entangled Coercion: African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th-17th Century). By Paola A. Revilla Orías. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Pp. 317. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliography. $97.99 cloth; $97.99 e-book.

Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Cuba - Wage-Earning Slaves: Coartación in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Claudia Varella and Manuel Barcia. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 cloth.

Medicalization of Madness in the Eighteenth Century - Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. By Christina Ramos. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 266. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $26.99 e-book.

Nineteenth-Century New Mexico and Racialized Communities - Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837–1860. By Michael J. Alarid. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Pp. 272. $65.00 cloth; $9.99 e-book.

Colonial Indigenous Women's Authority and Power - Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825. Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021 $45.00 cloth; $26.95 paper; $34.95 eBook.

Mexican Politics, Community Histories, and the Bracero Program - Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico. By Alberto García. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 260. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $25.00 e-book.

Independence Era in Costa Rica - Cortar una espiga más. Estudios sobre Costa Rica en la época de la independencia. By Iván Molina Jiménez. San José: Editorial Costa Rica, 2021. Pp. xix, 233. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $6.00 paper; $6.00 e-book.

Construction of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America. By Nicola Miller. Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 cloth.

Nineteenth-Century Discourses on Andean Indigeneity - Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru. By Natalia Majluf. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. 245. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth.

Transformation of New Spain into the Mexican Republic - Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750–1850. By Eric Van Young. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Pp. 358. $39.00 cloth; $37.00 e-book.

Commodities and Developing Southern Cone Nations - Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation. By Julia J. S. Sarreal. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 375. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book.

Bourbon Policing in Late Colonial Mexico City - The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City. By Nicole von Germeten. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Pp. 350. $99.00; $30.00 paper; $30.00 e-book.

US-Venezuelan Commerce in Age of Revolution - Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828. By Edward P. Pompeian. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2022. $64.95 cloth; $64.95 e-book.

Development of a National Drink and National Symbol - Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. $99.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $22.99 e-book.

Patriotic Mythologization and Mexico's War of Independence - La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine. By Silvia Marina Arrom. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 250. $29.95 cloth; $29.95 e-book.

Bolivia and the Chaco War - ¡Vamos a avanzar! The Chaco War and Bolivia's Political Transformation, 1899–1952. By Robert Niebuhr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 330. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth.

Debates about Brazilianness - Claiming Brazil: Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence. By Gregg Bocketti. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. Pp. 312. $55.00 cloth; $52.25 e-book.

Slavery and Emancipation in Argentina - Una historia de la emancipación negra. Esclavitud y abolición en la Argentina. By Magdalena Candioti. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores, 2021. Pp. 272. $18.60 paper.

Multilateralism in the Americas - The Southern Cone and the Origins of Pan America, 1888–1933. By Mark J. Petersen. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2022. Pp. 344. $65.00 cloth; $51.99 e-book.

Mexican War of Reform - The Grammar of Civil War: A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61. By Will Fowler. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Pp. 313. $65.00 cloth; $65.00 e-book.

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