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Exporting Revolution, Cuba's Global Solidarity. By Margaret Randall. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 270. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Oligarchies - The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970. By Dennis Gilbert . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Pp. 293. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Che, My Brother. By Juan Martín Guevara and Armelle Vincent. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press, 2017. Pp. vi, 264. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography. $25.00 cloth.

Modern Era Presidential Politics - Presidential Leadership in the Americas since Independence. By Guy Burton and Ted Goertzel . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. 271. $90.00 cloth.

Ecuador - The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files. By Marc Becker. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 336. $94.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.

Haiti and Jamaica - Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation. By Matthew J. Smith . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. 428. $35.00 paper.

Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination. By Toni Pressley-Sanon . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. 196. $79.95 cloth.

Argentina - The Right to the City: Popular Contention in Contemporary Buenos Aires. By Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2011. Pp. 320. $38.00 paper.

Bolivia - Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia. By Kevin A. Young . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. x, 275. $85.00 cloth. $27.95 paper.

Mexico - Mexico's Supreme Court: Between Liberal Individual and Revolutionary Social Rights, 1867–1934. By Timothy M. James. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. 168. $45.00 cloth.

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. By Peter Guardino. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 512. $39.95 cloth.

Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia. By Gabriela Zambrano Villarreal . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv, 336. $60.00 cloth.

Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico. By Kathryn A. Sloan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. 272. $29.95 paper.

Brazil - The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil. By Gregg Bocketti . University of Florida Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $79.95 cloth.

Brazil, 1964–1985: The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War. By Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 196. $40.00 cloth.

Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917–1952. By Michael K. Bess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 206. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 paper.

From Idols to Antiquity: Forging the National Museum of Mexico. By Miruna Achim. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Pp. 327. $60.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics. By Robert W. Wilcox . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. 416. $45.00 cloth.

Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power. Edited by Jeffrey Needell . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. 322. $79.95 cloth.

Peru - Historical Dictionary of Peru. By Peter F. Klarén. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Pp. 496. $110.00 cloth.

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