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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Archives - From the Ashes of History: Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America. Edited by Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores. Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2015. Pp. 342. $29.95 paper.

Latin American Studies - Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945. By Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 312. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $94.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.

Saqueo en el archivo: el paradero de los tesoros documentales guatemaltecos. By Wendy Kramer, W. George Lovell, and Christopher H. Lutz. Antigua: CIRMA, 2014. Pp. 65. $10.00 paper.

Reducciones. La concentración forzada de las poblaciones indígenas en el Virreinato del Perú. Edited by Akira Saito and Claudia Rosas. Lima/Osaka: Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. Pp. 678. Bibliography. Color illustrations. Map. $30.00 paper.

Nineteenth Century - Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History. By Christopher Conway. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. 281. 30 b/w illustrations. $24.95 paper.

Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750. By William C. Carter . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 328. $24.95 paper.

Colonial Nahuas - Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive. By Camilla Townsend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 318. $35.00 cloth.

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present. Edited by Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. 328. Illustrations. $45.00 cloth.

Indigenous Women and Social Movements - Multiple Injustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America. By R. Aída Hernández Castillo. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 330. $55.00 cloth.

Social And Cultural History - Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History. Edited by Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Pp. 320. $60.00 Cloth.

Immigration and Latino History - Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2015. Pp. 210. $32.50 paper.

Conquest and Conversion - History of the New World. Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. By Girolamo Benzoni . Translated by Jana Byars . Edited by Robert C. Schwaller and Jana Byars . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. Pp. 113. $24.95 paper.

Mission History - Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary. By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. 504. $39.95 cloth.

Colonial Sumptuary Laws - Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima. By Tamara Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 232. $99.99 cloth.

Inka Lineages - Nobles de papel: identidades oscilantes y genealogías borrosas en los descendientes de la realeza inca. By Rocío Quispe-Agnoli. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2016. Pp. 264. $31.56 paper.

Democracy and Poverty - Avoiding Governors: Federalism Democracy and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina. By Tracy Beck Fenwick. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2015. Pp. 296. $75.00 cloth; $29.00 paper.

Black Writing And Culture - Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America. Edited by Jerome C. Branche. Pittsburgh: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. 288. $24.95 paper.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida: A New Manuscript. By Gonzalo Solís de Merás . Edited, annotated, and translated by David Arbesú . Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017. Pp. 432. $74.95 cloth.

The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production. By Mark Z. Christensen . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 320. 56 photos. $55.00 cloth.

Religion and Human Rights - Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present. Edited by Alexander Wilde. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp. xv, 483. $49.00 paper.

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