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Volume 56 - January 2000

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Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico. 1519-1650. By Rebecca Horn. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 356. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. $55.00.)

Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from the Imperial Era to the 1950s. By René De La Pedraja. (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. Pp. xiii, 191. Notes. Index. $59.95.)

Maya Conquistador. By Matthew Restall. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 254. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $25.00. Paper $18.00.)

Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. By Philip A. Howard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1998. Pp. 280. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

A Coffee Frontier: Land Society and Politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830-1936. By Doug Yarrington. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 267. Cloth $45.00. Paper $19.95.)

Círculos de Poder en la Nueva España. By Carmen Castañeda. (Mexico: CIESAS, 1998. Pp. 239. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s to 1990s. Edited by Hendrik Kraay. (Armonk: M. E. Sharp, 1998. Pp. xii, 208. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $61.95. Paper $24.95.)

Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853. By Will Fowler. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 328. Notes. Index. $69.50.)

The Myth of Quetzalcoatl. By Enrique Florescano. Translated by Lysa Hochroth. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. 292. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $45.00.)

An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1824-1914. By Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 324. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $45.00. Paper $19.95.)

The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers. By Gabriel Torres. (New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. Pp. xii, 243. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $55.00. Paper $19.50.)

Juan Bautista Alvardo: Governor of California, 1836-1842. By Robert R. Miller. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Pp. 340. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)

The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850. By Matthew Restall. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 441. Appendices. Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $55.00. Paper $24.95.)

Beneath the United States: A History of U. S. Policy toward Latin America. By Lars Schoultz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 476. Illustrations. Maps. Sources. Notes. Index. Cloth $39.95. Paper $19.95.)

Procesos Rurales e Historia Regional: Sierra y Costa Totonacas de Veracruz. Victoria Chenaut, ed. (Mexico City: SEP, 1996. Pp. 223. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No Price.)

Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua. By Laura J. Enríquez. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. viii, 206. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95).

Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 305. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $30.00.)

Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán. By Jennie Purnell. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 271. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $49.95. Paper $17.95.)

The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and the Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. 288. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $54.95.)

The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's “Huei tlamahuiçolti” of 1649. Edited and translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, CM., and James Lockhart. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. 151. Appendices. Bibliography. $45.00.)

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