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A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

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Volume 47 - January 1991

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Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier. By Grant D. Jones. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 365. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $39.50.)

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade 1730-1830. By Joseph C. Miller. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Pp. xxvii, 692. Tables. Maps. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00.)

A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America. From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930. By Carlos Marichal. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 283. Figures. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $45.00, cloth; $16.50, paper.)

Manipulating the Saints. Edited by A. Meyers and D.E. Hopkins. (Hamburg: WAYASBAH-Verlag, 1988. Pp. xii, 291. Bibliography. Index. 54.00D.M., $32.00 U.S.)

Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy. By William C. Smith. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 395. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.50.)

Indian-Religious Relations in Colonial Spanish America. Edited by Susan E. Ramírez. [Foreign and Comparative Studies/Latin American Series 9] (Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1989. Pp. 120. Notes. Maps. Glossary. $13.00.)

Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century. By Ida Altman. (Berkeley; The University of California Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 372. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.)

The Money Doctor in the Andes: The Kemmerer Missions, 1923-1933. By Paul Drake. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. Pp. 335. Notes. Tables. Index. $50.00.)

Repression and Resistance: The Struggle for Democracy in Central America. By Edelberto Torres-Rivas. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. vii, 165. Notes. Index. $28.95.)

White Servitude and Black Slavery in Barbados, 1627-1715. By Hilary McD. Beckles. (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989. Pp. xv, 218. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95)

Brazil: The Forging of a Nation, 1798-1852. By Roderick J. Barman. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. 334. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.50.)

Conquest of the Sierra: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca. By John K. Chance. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Pp. xvii, 252. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.50.)

Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí: The Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga. By Peter Bakewell. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 250. Illustrations. Notes. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $35.00, cloth; $15.95, paper.)

Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America. By James Dunkerley. (New York: Verso, 1989. Pp. xvi, 642. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Charts. $19.95.)

Between Silver and Guano. Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru. By Paul Gootenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 233. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.50.)

The Manipulation of Consent: The State and Working-Class Consciousness in Brazil. By Youssef Cohen. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 185. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.)

Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Forasteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720. By Ann M. Wightman. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 315. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $47.50.)

King of the Night: Juan José Flores & Ecuador. 1824-1864. By Mark J. Van Aken. (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 382. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Map. $40.00.)

The Mexican Revolution in Puebla, 1908-1913. The Maderista Movement and the Failure of Liberal Reform. By David G. LaFrance. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1989. Pp. xv, 272. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

Entrepreneurs and Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico. By Roderic A. Camp. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 306. Tables. Notes. Index. $35.00.)

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