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The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940. Ricardo D. Salvatorre and Carlos Aguirre, eds. (Austin: University of Texas Press, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996. Pp. xxi, 279. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00, $14.95.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 326-328
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La Nueva España y sus metales preciosos: La industria minera colonial a través de los libros de cargo y data de la Real Hacienda, 1761-1767. By Bernd Hausberger. (Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1997. Pp. 323. Tables. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 651-652
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Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. By Frances R. Aparicio. (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. Pp. 311. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth. $19.95 paper.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 506-507
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Shadows over Anáhuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800. By Arij Ouweneel. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Pp. 429. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $60.00.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 144-146
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Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living. By Esther Pasztory. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. Pp.282. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 328-330
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La vida íntima de Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, 1798-1830. By William Lofstrom. (Santafé de Bogotá: Banco de la República/El Ancora Editores, 1996. Pp. 253. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $15.00.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 146-148
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Liberdade por um fio: História dos quilombos no Brasil. By João José Reis and Flávio dos Santos Gomes. (São Paulo, Brazil: Companhia Das Letras, 1996. Pp. 509. Illustrations. Notes. Annex. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 507-509
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Las rasgaduras de la descolonización: Españoles y mexicanos a mediados del siglo xix. By Romana Falcón. (Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1996. Pp. 368. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 652-653
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Liberals, the Church, and Indian Peasants: Corporate Lands and the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America. Jackson Robert H., ed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Index. Pp. 228. $47.50.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 653-655
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Sanumá Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crises. By Alcida Ramos. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. 346. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $50.00.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 509-510
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El peonaje en las haciendas mexicanas: Interpretaciones, fuentes, hallazgos. By Herbert J. Nickel. (Freiburg: Arnold Bergstraesser Institut/México, D.F.: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1997. Pp. 464. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 330-331
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Forging Mexico, 1821-1835. By Timothy Anna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. 330. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 148-150
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El Congreso en La Primera República Centralista. By Reynaldo Sordo Cedeño. (Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1993. Pp. 472. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 332-333
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Primer Amoxtli Libro: 3a Relación de las Différentes Histoires Originales. By Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimapalhin Cuauhtlehuanitzin. Edited and translated by M. Victor F. Castillo (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1997. Pp. 237. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Repertorio. No Price.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 510-512
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How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. By Stephen Haber, ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 315. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $18.95.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 655-658
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Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. By Wallace Ohrt (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. Pp. 190. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 150-151
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Mexico. Biography of Power. A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996. By Enrique Krauze. Translated by Hank Heifetz. (New York: Harper Collins, 1997. Pp. xix, 872. Chronology. Illustrations. Index. Maps. $35.00.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 512-514
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Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 396. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $60.00.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 333-335
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Strategy, Security, and Spies: Mexico and the U.S. as Allies in World War II. By María Emilia Paz. (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997. Pp. 244. Illustration. Bibliography. Index. $19.95 Cloth, $55.00, Paper.)
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- 11 December 2015, pp. 658-661
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The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz. By Michael Johns. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. 142. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.00.)
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