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Nation Building/Nationalism - The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires. By Terry Rugeley . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 355. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00 cloth.

Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. By Darlene J. Sadlier . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 251. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Ethnohistory/Indigenous Politics - Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia. By Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xlviii, 284. Acknowledgments. Notes. References. Index. $25.95 paper.

Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay. By Kregg Hetherington . Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 296. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95 cloth; paper $23.95.

History And Memory - The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past. By Louis A. Pérez Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 336. Notes. Index. $39.95 cloth.

Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920. By Tiffany A. Sippial . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 237. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 paper; $69.95 cloth.

From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life. By Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing, with Félix Muruchi. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xxvii, 288. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 hardcover.

Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State. By Nichole Sanders . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 171. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth; $34.95 paper.

We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements. By Lynn Stephen. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii, 334. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $25.95 paper; $94.95 cloth.

The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: Collective Memory and Cultural Production. By Ana Ros . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp xii, 268. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Images. $85.00 cloth.

Ambitious Rebels: Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780–1850. By Reuben Zahler . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 330. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.95 paper.

Toledo's Peru: Vision and Reality. By Ronald Bruce St. John . Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2010. Pp. xxiv, 253. Photos. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $44.95 cloth.

Politics/Governance - Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880–1940. By Erik Ching . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Pp. xvii, 459. Tables. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 paper; $38.50 e-book.

Religion/Religious Practices - Amazons, Wives, Nuns & Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil: 1500–1822. By Carole A. Myscofski . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. x, 308. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Gender and Sexuality - Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class. By Carla Freeman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. xii, 258. Notes. References. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Nation Building And Nationalism - Maestra. Film. By Catherine Murphy . New York: The Literacy Project, 2011.

Native Evangelism in Central America. By Hugo G. Nutini and Jean F. Nutini . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Pp. xiv, 197. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55 cloth.

Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering and Care in Chile. By Nia Parson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 220. Appendixes. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $55.00 cloth.

Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity. By Mollie Lewis Nuowen . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 157. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50 cloth.

Becoming the Tupamaros: Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States. By Lindsey Churchill . Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. Pp. vii, 206. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index. $55.00 cloth.

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