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Volume 55 - January 1999

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The Mexican Army, 1822-1852. By William A. DePaloJr. , (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1997, Pp. 288. No Price.)

The Political Economy of Latin America in the Postwar Period. By Laura Randall. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 319. Maps. Tables. Charts. Notes. Index. $30.00 Cloth, $15.95 Paper.)

The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. By Paul Vanderwood. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. 409. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 Cloth. $24.95 Paper.)

Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940. By Friedrich E. Schuler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pp. 269. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $47.50.)

Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil. By France Winddance Twine. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Pp. 175. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.00.)

La Interventión Norteamericana 1846-1848. By Josefina Zoraida Vázquez. (Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1997. Pp. 170. Illustrations. No Price.)

Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist. By Benjamin Welles. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Pp. 437. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

Mexico's Hidden Revolution: The Catholic Church in Law and Politics Since 1929. By Peter Lester Reich. (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1995. Pp. 193. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95.)

The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942. By Robert Levine. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. 155. Illustrations. Notes. $59.95.)

The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender, and Power in Monterrey, Mexico. By Vivienne Bennett. (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Figures. Tables. Glossary. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No Price.)

Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador. By Kim D. Butler. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 285. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.00.)

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. By Kimberly Hanger. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. 248. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964. By Barbara Weinstein. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 456. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $59.95.)

Massacre in the Pampas, 1872: Britain and Argentina in the Age of Migration. By John Lynch (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. Pp. 237. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $28.95.)

El Clero Cubano y la independencia: las investigaciones de Francisco González de Valle, 1881-1942. By Manuel P. Maza Miquel, S.J. (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Centro de Estudios Sociales, 1993. Pp. 276. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. $12.00.)

Central America: A Natural and Cultural History. Anthony G. Coates, ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 277. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $35.00)

Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the late 1800s. By Bonham C. Richardson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. xvii, 294. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.)

Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929. By Thomas Schoonover. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Pp. 317. Illustrations. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988. By Michael George Hanchard. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 203. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $29.95.)

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