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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 46 - July 1989

Book Reviews

Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America. By Alfred N. Hunt. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv, 196. Illustrations. Index. $25.00.)

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Inter-American Notes

Spanish Frontier

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Penny Ante Imperialism. The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600-1914. A Case Study in British Informal Empire. By Robert A. Naylor. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989. Pp. 315. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America. By Richard L. Jackson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 166. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $23.00.)

Children of Colonial Despotism. Press, Politics, and Culture in Cuba, 1790-1840. By Larry R. Jensen. (Gainesville: University of South Florida Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 211. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.00.)

Brazilian Women Speak. Contemporary Life Stories. By Daphne Patai. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988 Pp. xii, 404. Notes. Index. $37.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.)

Language, Authority and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas. By Margarita Zamora. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. ix, 209. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $44.50.)

Sugar Is Made with Blood. The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. By Robert L. Paquette. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 352. Tables. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Index. $29.95.)

Maya Iconography. Edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi, 379. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $80.00.)

Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile. By Maurice Zeitlin. and Richard Earl Ratcliff. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. P. xxiv, 288. Tables. Figures. Index. $45.00 cloth; $12.95 paper.)

Lawless Liberators. Political Banditry and Cuban Independence. By Rosalie Schwartz. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 297. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $44.50.)

Drinkers, Drummers, and Decent Folk: Ethnographic Narratives of Village Trinidad. By John O. Stewart. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 230. Glossary. References. $39.50, cloth; $12.95, Paper.)

Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. By Brenda Gayle Plummer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 255. Illustrations. Index. $27.50.)

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Feminismo! The Women's Movement in Argentina from its Beginnings to Eva Peron. By Marifran Carlson. Introd. by George I. Blanksten. (Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1988. Pp. 224. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Cloth: $22.95, Paper: $10.95.)

Apalachee: The Land Between the Rivers By John H. Hann. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 450. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $36.00.)

The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico. By J. Manuel Espinosa (trans, and ed.). (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 309. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95.)

A Tropical Belle Epoque. Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro. By Jeffrey D. Needell. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 351. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

The Myth of the Revolution. By Illene V. O'Malley. (Westport: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1986. Pp. 145. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Biographical Dictionary of Councillors of the Indies, 1717-1808. By Mark A. Burkholder. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1984. Pp. xxxv, 194. Appendices. Glossary. Index. Bibliography. No price.)

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