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Volume 74 - October 2017

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Guatemala - I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944. By David Carey Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 325. Photos. Maps. $55.00 cloth.

Brazil - Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World. By Zachary Morgan . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 320. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 cloth.

Caribbean Marxism - Race, Ideology, and the Decline of Caribbean Marxism. By Anthony P. Maingot . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. 358. $79.95 cloth.

Cuba, the United States, and Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930–1975. By John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 294. $99.99 cloth.

Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s. By Elena Shtromberg . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 238. Photos. $90.00 cloth. $29.95 paper.

Immigration - Inmigración y racismo: contribuciones a la historia de los extranjeros en México. Edited by Pablo Yankelevich . Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2015. Pp. 240. $23.95 paper.

Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America. By Felipe Amin Filomeno . New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. Pp. 187. $105 cloth; $100 paper.

Amazonia - Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People. By Michael F. Brown , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 336. $29.95 cloth.

Political Violence and Memory - History of Political Murder in Latin America: Killing the Messengers of Change. By W. John Green . Albany: SUNY Press, 2015. Pp. 382. $26.95 paper.

Mexico - City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910. By Anna Rose Alexander . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2016. Pp. 224. $26.95 paper.

The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. By Christina Bueno . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. Pp. 363. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship: The Performances of Blood. By Cecilia Sosa . London: Suffolk Boydell et Brewer, 2014. Pp. 190. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth

Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938. By J. Justin Castro . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. 288. Illustrations. $70.00 paper.

Medicine - Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940. By José Amador . Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. Pp. 219. $29.95 paper.

Argentina - The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War. By Federico Finchelstein . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 232. $58.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Costa Rica - La educación en Costa Rica de la época colonial al presente. By Iván Molina Jiménez . San José: Editoriales Universitarias Públicas Costarricenses; San José: Consejo Nacional de Rectores y Programa Estado de la Nación, 2016. Pp. 711.

Chile - The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile. By Raymond B. Craib . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 271. $35.00 cloth.

Mexico - Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. By Deborah Toner . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. 385. $70.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán: Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876. By Douglas W. Richmond . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. Pp. 200. $49.95 cloth.

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