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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. By Christa J. Olson . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Pp. xxv, 238. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $64.95 cloth.

Pan American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico. By Megan Threlkeld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 246. Introduction. Notes. Index. Acknowledgments. $45.00 cloth.

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Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. By Daniel M. Goldstein . Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 344. Acknowledgments. Notes. References. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Latino/Border Studies - Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. By Leisy J. Abrego. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi, 250. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $70.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.

“We Are Now the True Spaniards.” Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824. By Jaime E. Rodríguez O. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 520. Pictures. Tables. Maps. Notes. Index. $70.00, cloth.

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The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State. By Halbert Jones . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 296. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth.

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Mexicans in the Making of America. By Neil Foley. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $29.95 paper.

Colombia and World War I: The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation During the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1921. By Jane M. Rausch . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. xi, 137. List of Figures. Annexes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth.

The General's Slow Retreat: Chile After Pinochet. By Mary Helen Spooner . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 338. Illustrations. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.95 paper.

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Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies. By Claudia Milian. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. Pp. 288. Acknowledgments. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $24.95 paper.

Religion/Religious Practices - Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650. By Regina Harrison . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 310. Preface. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth.

Politics/Governance - Los orígenes de la burguesía de El Salvador. El control sobre el café y el Estado. 1848–1890. By Antonio Acosta Rodríguez. Seville: Aconcagua Libros, 2013. Pp. xxviii, 419. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography.

Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America. By Robert Lassalle-Klein . Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2014. Pp. xxiii, 376. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Index. $34.00 paper.

Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power. By Michael Reid. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2014. Pp. xii, 334. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50 cloth.

Religion/Religious Practices - The New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family. By Edward T. Brett. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Pp. x, 248. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. $30.00 paper.

Urban Social History - La historia viaja en tranvía. El transporte público y la cultura política de la Ciudad de México. By Georg Leidenberger . Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2011. Pp. 185. Introduction. Appendix. Bibliography. Figures. Maps.

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