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Volume 44 - January 1988

Book Reviews

Essays on the Mexican War. Edited by Douglas W. Richmond (College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 99. Illustrations. Notes. $17.95.)

Castañer: Una hacienda cafetalera en Puerto Rico (1868-1930). By Luis Edgardo Díaz Hernández Second Edition. (Río Piedras: Editorial Edil, 1983. Pp. 106. No price.)

Roots of Insurgency. Mexican Regions, 1750-1824. By Brian R. Hamnett. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 Pp. ix, 276. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $44.50.)

Poverty and Politics. The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920. By June E. Hahner. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 415. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia. By Charles Bergquist. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi, 397. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. Cloth, $39.50; Paper, $14.95.)

Chile and the War of the Pacific. By William F. Sater (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 337. Appendix. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.95.)

The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry. By Elinore M. Barrett. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 143. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.50.)

Mexican Lobby: Matías Romero in Washington, 1861-1867. Edited and Translated with an introduction by Thomas D. Schoonover. (Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. 184. Essay on Sources. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy. By Michael Fleet (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 274. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 hardcover; $14.50 paper.)

Rafael Nuñez and the Politics of Colombian Regionalism, 1863-1886. By James W. Park. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 304. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

La crisis de Panamá: Cartas de Tomás Herrán, 1900-1904. By Thomas J. Dodd. (Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1985. Pp. 454. Illustration. Notes. No price.)

To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888. By Katia M. de Queirós Mattoso. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 250. Map. Tables. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $35.00 hardcover; $15.00 paper.)

The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: A Documentary History. Volume One: 1570-1700. Compiled and edited by Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. PolzerS.J. . (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1986. Pp. x, 756. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00.)

Costa Rica Before Coffee. By Lowell Gudmundson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. 204. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00.)

Race and Color in Brazilian Literature. By David Brookshaw. (Metuchen, N.J., and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1986. Pp. v, 348. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.)

The Panama Canal in American Politics: Domestic Advocacy and Evolution of Policy. By J. Michael Hogan. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Unviersity Press, 1986. Pp. viii, 291. Bibliography. Notes. Index. No price.)

Historia de los judíos en Chile. Vol. I. Período Colonial. El Bachiller Francisco Maldonado de Silva, 1592-1639. By Günter Böhm. (Santiago: Editorial Andres Bello, 1984. Pp. xiii, 441. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Documentary appendices. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

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Carlton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America. By John A. Britton. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 309. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cloth $21.95. Paper $9.95.)

Roots of Revolution: Radical Thought in Cuba. By Sheldon B. Liss. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. Pp. xxv, 267. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Cloth $21.95. Paper $9.95.)

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