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We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Across North America. By Alex D. Krieger. Edited by Margery J. Krieger. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 318. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $39.95 cloth.

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Comercio y poder en América colonial: Los consulados de comercio, siglos XVII-XIX. Edited by Bernd Hausberger and Antonio Ibarra. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Franfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag / México: Instituo Mora, 2003. Pp. 238. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No price. 24,80 paper.

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Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Edited by Gabriela F. Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, and Patricia Zavella. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp.xii, 390. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. $69.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.

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Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes. By Sergio Serulnikov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 287. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.

Reformismo y sociedad en la América borbónica. In memoriam Ronald Escobedo. Edited by Pilar Latasa. Pamplona, Spain: EUNSA, 2003. Pp. 333. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. No price.

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Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera. By Manuel Luis Martinez. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 353. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 paper.

A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective. By Suzanne Austin Alchon. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 214. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.

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Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. By Richard Weiner. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. Pp xi, 167. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 cloth.

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The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Edited by Ileana Rodríguez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 459. Notes. Index. $89.95 cloth; $28.95 paper.

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Dentro de la ley, todo. La justicia criminal de Buenos Aires en la etapa formativa del sistema penal moderno de la Argentina. By Osvaldo Barreneche. La Plata: Ediciones Al Margen, 2001. Pp. 186. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

En defensa de la autoridad. Politíca y cultura bajo el gobierno del Virrey Abascal, Peru 1806-1816. By Víctor Peralta-Ruiz. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2002. Pp. 199. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

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Memorias migrantes: testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya. By Abril Trigo. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003. Pp. 284. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. No price.

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Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. By Charles L. Briggs with Clara Martini-Briggs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi, 430. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.94 cloth; $21.95 paper.

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Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism. Edited by Jeffrey Lesser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 219. Glossary. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Entre la aceptación y el rechazo: América Latina y los refugiados judíos del nazismo. By Avraham Milgram. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003. Pp. 375. Illustrations. Bibliography. Sources. Index. No price.

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The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. By James G. Cusick. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Pp. xvi, 370. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. By Donna M. Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxx, 349. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

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Conflictos migratorios transnacionales y respuestas comunitarias. Edited by Leigh Binford and Maria Eugenia d'Aubeterre. Mexico: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades; BUAP, 2000. Pp. 145. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No Price.

By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women's Journeys In and Out of Exile. Edited by Maria de los Angeles Torres. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Pp xiii, 192. Illustrations. $19.95 paper.

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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s. By Hendrik Kraay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 362. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

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