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Volume 75 - October 2018

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Who Should Rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire. By Mónica Ricketts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 328. Notes. Index. $74.00 cloth.

The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889–1930. By Gilberto Hochman. Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 216. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography. Index. $95.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche’ Community. By C. James MacKenzie . Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2016. Pp. 408. $110.00 cloth. $34.95 paper.

Brazilian Propaganda: Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime. By Nina Schneider. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Pp. 214. $74.95 cloth.

Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera. By Rosemary Hennessy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. 302. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

Mesoamerican Studies - The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859. By Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg. Translated and edited by Katia Sainson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. 288. $39.95 cloth.

Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism. By Richard A. Gordon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 259. $55.00 cloth.

Reflections on Memory and Democracy. Edited by Merilee S. Grindle and Erin Goodman . David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2016. Appendix. Pp. xiii, 260. $24.95 paper.

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Inequality and Cities - Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms. Edited by Tom Angotti. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. 299. $89.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.

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Benjamin Cowan, Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2016. Pp. 324. $85.00 cloth; $32.95 paper.

Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century. By Daniel Ramírez . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2015. Pp. 306. $29.95 paper.

US-Mexico Borderlands - The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands. By Nicholas Villanueva Jr. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. xii, 219. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer. By Robert Gay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. 222. $89.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Migrations - Brazil and Canada: Economic, Political, and Migratory Ties, 1820s to 1970s. By Rosana Barbosa. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. 171. $80.00 cloth.

Transatlantic - Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World. By Cassander L. Smith . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Pp. 248. $45.

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Labor - Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. By Ernesto Semán. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 314. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $94.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.

Mexico - The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism. By Gladys I. McCormick. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 284. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth; $32.95 paper.

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